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All of these models assume outcomes on the basis of existing policies.
Their consistent over-optimism about these policies’ impact on economic growth validates pursuing them, and enables governments to claim that their remedies are “working,” when they clearly are not.
Bad policies are, more often than not, easier to sell than good ones.
If he delivers, his policies will be game changers for Japan.
Two of these – shale energy and big-data analytics – build on ongoing technological breakthroughs in which the US has a strong lead and depend primarily on private-sector action, not macroeconomic or structural policies.
Backing competitive education, innovation, technology, energy, and a more efficient and accessible health-care system complements and reinforces Obama’s leadership approach of setting an example with one’s own policies.
The observation that recoveries following a financial crisis are different suggests that standard macroeconomic policies might not work as one would usually expect.
On balance, it thus seems that this time – or, rather, this post-crisis environment – really is different, and that macroeconomic policies have done little to improve matters.
The farm policy puzzle will be followed by a similar predicament over EU regional and social policies.
Candidate countries, however, are poorer still, so the full application of these regional policies would call for large extra budgetary transfers to Central and Eastern Europe.
But this useless reaction to the laws of the global market economy hides the fact that Germany’s problems are largely a result of an overblown welfare state and extremely aggressive union policies over the last thirty years.
If the democratic principle is not strengthened, it is most unlikely that the European Union will be able to deal satisfactorily with any of the massive challenges lying immediately ahead: making a success of the Single Currency, revising the Union’s spending policies, and reforming the Union’s existing policies and institutions.
Compared to a new recession, the long-term cost of stimulus policies is insignificant.
With interest rates already low and the private sector deleveraging, there is little risk of expansionary policies causing inflation or crowding out private investment.
Within the eurozone, structural reforms and more efficient public spending, which are essential to sustainable long-term growth and debt levels, must be combined with policies to support demand and recovery in the short term.
Americans’ anger following the attacks drove them to support policies that they once would have considered inconceivable.
Consultation cannot consist of simply informing others of what has already been decided, not adapting policies, and yet still expecting support.
It is up to these countries to seek a compromise that enables them to continue participating in and influencing common policies.
Their 1990 version of the Maastricht Treaty’s Article 25 on Prudential Supervision included the following provisions (placed in square brackets to show that they were not completely consensual): “The ECB may formulate, interpret, and implement policies relating to the prudential supervision of credit and other financial institutions for which it is designated as competent supervisory authority.”
A global savings glut would suggest that rebalancing the world economy requires policies to boost America’s savings rate and to increase non-US households’ consumption.
This would seem to call for a very different set of policies to rebalance the world economy.
Yes, the US needs tax increases to move the federal budget into surplus and policies to boost private savings.
But the world also needs policies to boost investment in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.
Models, thus simplified, suggested policies that seemed to work – that is, until the plumbing backed up.
And the plumbing malfunctioned because herd behavior – shaped by policies in ways that we are only now coming to understand – overwhelmed it.
The outlook for global growth is improving, and, with sensible policies, the next several years could be quite a bit better than the last – certainly for advanced economies, and perhaps for most others as well.
To be sure, ensuring confidence, especially in financial systems, is essential; but regulation must be balanced with policies to boost competition, so that start-ups can easily enter the market and test new ideas.
It suggests that policymakers are playing for longer-run sustainable growth and have become warier of policies that, if used persistently, amount to a defective, unsustainable growth model.
Eurozone member states have increasingly gone their own way, even overtly defending nationalist economic policies that harm the eurozone as a whole.
The challenge now for EU leaders is not to repackage old policies, but to express a collective vision and will to act together.
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