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Is it more difficult to predict, and adjust to, the coming of a fundamental change, than to defend the present order, under the motto of “the devil you know is always preferable to the devil you don’t know!”But, beyond these mental habits lie more structural reasons for the conservatism of foreign policymakers and diplomats.
In Greece, by contrast, there is no evidence that the many structural reforms imposed by the “troika” (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) have led to any real improvement on the ground.
To succeed, monetary, fiscal, and structural policies must be implemented together, in a logical and mutually reinforcing order.
Conversely, if populist opposition makes structural reforms impossible, this encourages conservative resistance to expansionary macroeconomics.
Both macroeconomic and structural policies would then be easier to justify politically – and much more likely to succeed.
If “Macroneconomics” – the attempt to combine conservative structural policies with progressive macroeconomics – succeeds in replacing the market fundamentalism that failed in 2007, the lost decade of economic stagnation could soon be over – at least for Europe.
Structural deflationary pressures in the developed countries – such as highly debated increments of productivity in the United States – help the central banks to maintain price stability, which means that growing exports and high terms of trade have been accompanied by reasonably low interest rates.
They are structural, and they severely affect at least four other economies: Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus, and Spain.
Symmetrical reflation is the best option for restoring growth and competitiveness on the eurozone's periphery while undertaking necessary austerity measures and structural reforms.
The bitter medicine that Germany and the ECB want to impose on the periphery – the second option – is recessionary deflation: fiscal austerity, structural reforms to boost productivity growth and reduce unit labor costs, and real depreciation via price adjustment, as opposed to nominal exchange-rate adjustment.
Even structural reform reduces output in the short run, because it requires firing workers, shutting down money-losing firms, and gradually reallocating labor and capital to emerging new industries.
If the peripheral countries remain mired in a deflationary trap of high debt, falling output, weak competitiveness, and structural external deficits, eventually they will be tempted by a third option: default and exit from the eurozone.
Unless they abandon asymmetric adjustment (recessionary deflation), which concentrates all of the pain in the periphery, in favor of a more symmetrical approach (austerity and structural reforms on the periphery, combined with eurozone-wide reflation), the monetary union's slow-developing train wreck will accelerate as peripheral countries default and exit.
It centers on whether China is best understood as a strong country, with a promising future despite some short-term difficulties, or as a country facing serious structural problems and uncertain long-term prospects.
This is often attributed to two structural causes.
For starters, political parties should recognize Germany’s “hidden” populism for what it is: a serious structural challenge.
As Brad Setser of the Council on Foreign Relations explains, the oversight board justifies its optimism by assuming – implausibly, in our view – that the plan’s proposed structural reforms for the 2021-2023 period will deliver extraordinarily large gains.
With analysts focused more on short-term figures than on structural trends, it is not surprising that financial markets often fail to comprehend the real story.
In pursuing them, Varoufakis felt empowered by the scale of Syriza’s electoral win and compelled by economic logic to press three issues that many economists believe must be addressed if sustained growth is to be restored: less and more intelligent austerity; structural reforms that better meet social objectives; and debt reduction.
Second – and here’s where the surprise came – they all agreed that, with the benefit of hindsight, these excruciating adjustments were worth it, because their crisis-torn economies were forced to embrace structural reforms that paved the way for their spectacular economic performance today.
In Asia in the late 1990’s, measures aimed at the financial sector dominated IMF-imposed structural adjustment programs, but there were also programs that focused on tax and expenditure reforms, corporate governance, privatization, and business-debt restructuring.
So Asia’s structural lessons are equally important to the developed world.
They set out to address the structural weaknesses that had brought their systems down.
Structural barriers do not represent the only problems of access to treatment in the health care system.
So far, the Greek crisis has been treated as a recurring emergency, rather than the structural problem that it is.
What is needed is not structural reform within Greece and Spain so much as structural reform of the eurozone’s design and a fundamental rethinking of the policy frameworks that have resulted in the monetary union’s spectacularly bad performance.
Stiglitz and I agree that Alvin Hansen’s prediction was not borne out after World War II because of a combination of expansionary policy and structural changes in the economy.
This was my point five years ago in renewing the idea of secular stagnation – to suggest that the economy as it was in 2013 required some combination of fiscal expansion and structural change to sustain full employment.
My discussions of secular stagnation have all emphasized a variety of structural factors, including inequality, high profit shares, changes in relative prices, and global saving patterns.
Second, though oil prices may be cyclical, structural changes in energy markets are likely to undermine price increases.
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