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In mid-1960’s Great Britain, Nicholas Kaldor, the world-class Cambridge economist and an influential adviser to the Labour Party, raised an alarm over “deindustrialization.”His argument was that an ongoing shift of value added from manufacturing to services was harmful, because manufactures were technologically progressive, whereas services were not.
Because the ranking is updated every month, RePEc enables one to track which economists are viewed by their peers as the most influential over time.
The rate of renewal among the 200 most influential economists was as low as 25% – and just 16% among the top 100 – during a decade in which the explanatory power of prevailing economic theory had been found severely wanting.
Coming Out in AfricaThe lead story in a recent issue of the Daily Graphic , Ghana's most influential newspaper, was designed to shock: "Four Gay Men Jailed."
The Ulema Council, a group of influential clerics, has given its backing as well.
Risk would be further mitigated through the participation of large, influential investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and possibly international financial institutions.
The "Convention," though influential, is just a debating group; the real negotiations between governments will come later this year.
As for climate change, we need a global system of implicit or explicit carbon pricing, spearheaded by the world economy’s most influential actors.
Many influential groups, however, effectively avoid high taxation.
Rather, the mandates of systemically influential central banks should be expanded to account for spillovers, forcing policymakers to avoid unconventional measures with substantial adverse effects on other economies, particularly if the domestic benefits are questionable.
The private sector and media outlets like the influential Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper have also joined in.
China has built one of the world’s largest and most influential economies.
Likewise, while Egypt is in the midst of a messy revolution, and must give priority to internal change, it also intends to regain a more visible and influential role within the Palestinian national movement(s) and in the region as a whole.
China has shown that it wants to be influential in the developing world – and certainly in Asia – by playing the role of a supportive partner, at least in the economic realm.
Larry Summers, now the highly influential director of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council, concluded as a young economist that “financial and monetary shocks are less important sources of depression than we had suspected.”
Incorrupt independent judges are even more influential than politicians elected with massive majorities.
So maintaining NAM is not some nostalgic longing for an influential past; rather, it is a means for countries to maintain as much international influence as possible in our globalized world.
But the government then heeded influential economists’ warnings of the risks of relaxing capital controls too hastily.
This is astonishing, given that highly respected, influential figures and political parties have been speaking for the opposition at international gatherings.
Influential opposition figures – such as former parliamentarian and political prisoner Riad Seif and the SNC’s former leader, Burhan Ghalioun – have proposed promising strategies for forming such an umbrella organization.
African governments sharply reduced or eliminated duties on imported rice in the 1990’s, urged on by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and influential free-market economists.
Jeffrey Frankel Professor, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of GovernmentJapan’s War Guilt Revisited“It is our obligation as Japan’s most influential newspaper to tell our readers who was responsible for starting the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War.”
According to the Committee, “field officers were often more influential than even the Emperor, war ministers, and chiefs-of-staffs in making decisions to go to and escalate the wars, and were responsible for many atrocities.”
He knows that the “return of France” as an influential actor in Europe presupposes a France that is closer to America, which will automatically bring France closer to Germany and Great-Britain, not to mention Poland and Italy.
To be sure, the CBO has never been more influential than it is this year.
Arguably, what I have in mind will eventually require a new international agreement along the lines of Bretton Woods, and some reinterpretation of the mandates of internationally influential central banks.
The film even drew support from the incoming environment minister, Chen Jining, who compared it to Rachel Carson’s influential book Silent Spring.
Third, life outside the EU will, in any case, leave Britain poorer and less influential in the world.
Indeed, a small but influential cult touts the Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann’s “singularity” theory.
It has since been embraced by every football competition in Australia, and has proved an influential model for other sports in Australia and worldwide.
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