Showing posts with label nominal GDP and inflation expectations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nominal GDP and inflation expectations. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

What are the implications of declining productivity growth in high-income countries?

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The graph shown above indicates that productivity growth rates in high-income countries have declined. That decline seems evident even...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

How can governments mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on human flourishing?

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This is an appropriate question for economists with an interest in public policy to be considering. It recognizes a possible role for ...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Do I agree with Steve Keen's views about the causes of the GFC and the NAR?

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Who is Steve Keen? What is the NAR? And why am I wondering whether or not I agree with Steve Keen? Steve Keen is an Australian economic...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Should the GFC be viewed as a 'balance sheet' recession of the kind Irving Fisher wrote about in the 1930s?

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I have been feeling a strong urge to write about the economic policies of the former government of our resurrected prime minister, Kevin Ru...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Is there a house price bubble in Australia?

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An article in ‘The Economist’ last week suggests that the ‘ bursting of the global housing bubble is only halfway through ’ (‘Economics f...
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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Does the modern world make us feel like powerless creatures in the coils of an invisible monster?

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‘What most alarms us in our contemporary world, what unsettles and scares us, is the extent to which the forces that shape our lives are n...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

Should we be more concerned about the policies being followed by the European Central Bank?

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Jim was obviously agitated by my response to his question. He had just asked me whether I thought that the latest political deal in Europe...
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