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- Great Questions from Paul Krugman
- Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
- Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
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Tag Archives: larry summers
Legislative Gridlock isn’t the Problem
An interesting take from Larry Summers: The great mistake of the gridlock theorists is to suppose that progress comes from legislation, and that more legislation consistently represents more progress. While people think the nation is gripped by gridlock, consider what … Continue reading
Larry Summers Reviews the History of Austerity
Summers reviews Austerity: the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth here. Photo from Financial Times
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Tagged austerity, Government Spending, larry summers, Mark Blyth
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Reactions to Mankiw on the Long Run Budget Path
I agree with most of Greg Mankiw’s NYTimes piece on long-term debt to GDP but can’t overlook a glaring omission – he seems to ignore the fact that we are currently experiencing a major economic catastrophe. Here’s how Mankiw concludes: Military … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Delong, debt, Debt to GDP, Economic Policy, Greg Mankiw, larry summers
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An Economic To Do List From Larry Summers
Do more than focus on the deficit Avoid sequester and spread cuts overtime Address international aspects of corporate tax reform (see related posts here and here) Fix housing finance and loosen GSE lending restrictions modestly Accelerate the transformation of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Tax Reform, Deficit, Energy, Housing, larry summers, Taxes
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Understanding Hysteresis
I presented these slides on Blanchard and Summers 1986 yesterday at the Berkeley Macro lunch. If you are interested in Hysteresis, this is one of the seminal papers in the literature. Overview Periods of persistently high unemployment are not uncommon events in … Continue reading
Historical Hysteresis: Adverse Shocks vs Structural Problems
I started posting last week on the Summers & Blanchard paper, which is on hysteresis and the Unemployment problem in Europe starting in the mid 1970s. Many advocated structural explanations for hysteresis, but Summers & Blanchard looked to the Great Depression period … Continue reading
Hysteresis & the Unemployment Problem
Summers and Blanchard have a paper on Hysteresis in Europe in the 1980s in which they discuss three main potential causes of hysteresis, which is a very high dependence of current employment on past unemployment. The three causes are (1) physical … Continue reading
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Tagged Europe, Great Recession, Jobs, Labor, Labor Markets, larry summers, long term unemployed, Middle Class, Oliver Blanchard, Unions, Wages
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Policy Implications of the Rise of Robots
After the forum that I posted about yesterday, there was a Q&A with Larry Summers. I asked him about the policy implications of living in a world of “Doers” and whether that should change how we think about pro-capital vs … Continue reading
Larry Summers on Economic Possibilities for Our Children – Robots, Inequality, & Government Spending
I came across the lecture Larry Summers gave on the future of the next generation in which he talks about the rise of robots, inequality, government spending and many other interesting issues. Very much worth watching. Here’s a summary of some … Continue reading
Raising Another Trillion in Revenues
Larry Summers argues it’s plausible that we can raise another $1 trillion+ over the next ten years – here’s how: The failure to tax capital gains at the point of death costs the federal government about $50bn a year. Since … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiscal Cliff, inequality, larry summers, Tax Reform, Taxes
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