Sentences with phrase «american economist»

The American economist argues that cryptocurrency isn't as useful as many think it to be.

The American economist...

American economist and chairman of Roubini Macro Associates, Nouriel Roubini, on the other hand, believes bitcoin is the «biggest bubble in human history,» one that he told Bloomberg «is finally crashing.»

In fact, the Austrian - born American economist and political scientist, Joseph Schumpeter, argued that

Allan Greenspan is American economist and the former chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America.

Benjamin Graham (May 8, 1894 — September 21, 1976) was a British - born American economist and professional investor.

Benjamin Graham was a highly influential 20th Century American economist and professional investor who taught at Columbia Business School and authored two of the most influential books on investing ever written, «Security Analysis» and «The Intelligent Investor».

The Sharpe Ratio was invented by an American economist named William Sharpe, who actually has a really interesting story and I would suggest you take some time to read about him.

Steven David «Steve» Levitt is a prominent American economist best known for his work on crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates.

The Portable Veblen gets its name from two people: Thorstein Veblen, the late - nineteenth - century Norwegian - American economist, and the female fictional protagonist named after him, Veblen Amundsen - Hovda.

When Hillary Clinton wanted to talk to an esteemed researcher on social mobility, she called Raj Chetty, a Stanford economics professor, a recipient of a MacArthur «Genius» Fellowship, and a winner of the John Bates Clark medal, given to the best American economist under age 40.

This past April, at age 37, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given to the American economist under 40 «who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge» (and 12 times a precursor to the Nobel Prize in economics).

This significant honor — the profession's most prestigious after the Nobel Prize — is given annually to an American economist under the age of 40; Fryer is its first black winner.

The following from American economist Deidre McCloskey's book The Economic History of Britain since 1700 is worth noting.

The American economist William Nord - haus was the first to attempt to apply cost benefit analysis to the greenhouse effect in a privately circulated paper in 1990 which he entitled «To slow or not to slow: the economics of the greenhouse effect».

This came from an Inland Revenue report, which quoted research by American economist Robert Eisner, now of Northwestern University in Illinois.

«Angus Deaton, 69, a British - American economist at Princeton University, pioneered the study of consumption among poor families and individuals and how it differs from that of more affluent people.»

The Canadian - American economist and author J.K Galbraith once famously stated that politics is not...

Benn Steil, a distinguished American economist and writer, has gone behind the myths of Bretton Woods and written a provocative, lively and perceptive book that pulls together economics, politics, diplomacy and history and relates it to our current crisis.

It is interesting that Lester Thurow, a leading American economist, closely related to the more progressive wing of the Democratic party, has written that the agricultural sector is the one great area of progress in American society since World War II.

So we need to create a different logic, which was well expressed by K. Polanyi, the American economist of Hungarian origins, who wrote about the need to re-embed the economy in society.

A leading American economist, Kenneth Boulding recently said:

This is largely due to the efforts of the American economist Steven D. Levitt, who claimed, in Freakonomics [1], that the legalisation of abortion has led to a reduction in American crime rates.

American economist Hyman Minsky died in 1996, but his theories offer one of the most compelling explanations of the 2008 financial crisis.

Mark Thornton is an American economist of the Austrian School.

During our trip last week to Jackson Hole, we had the pleasure of hearing from Paul McCulley, an American economist and former managing director at PIMCO who is now teaching at Cornell.

In 1974, the American economist Arthur Laffer, then a professor at the University of Chicago, was having dinner with his friend Jude Wanniski, an associate editor of the Wall Street Journal.

The Volcker Rule is a specific section of the Dodd — Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act originally proposed by American economist and former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to restrict United States banks from making certain kinds of speculative investments that do not benefit their customers.

This «end of growth» idea appears outside Canada as well — American economist Robert J. Gordon (no relation to Canada's Stephen) argues in a new book that the life - changing growth of the 20th century won't be repeated in the 21st century.

«Creative destruction» was how the great Austrian - American economist Joseph Schumpeter described the workings of a healthy economy.

As the American economist Samuel Bowles notes, excessive reliance on financial incentives can undermine virtue, despite a growing awareness that key markets and institutions simply will not function without some commitment to virtues such as fairness, honesty, and trust.

There is no possibility of agreement at the upcoming G20 summit because the U.S. is declaring financial war on other countries, believes American economist Michael Hudson.

David was previously the chief North American economist for Merrill Lynch, where he was frequently ranked in the Institutional Investor All - Star Analyst rankings.

As governor of the Bank of Israel, mild - mannered American economist Stanley Fischer became The Responsible Adult, a superhero with the power of trustworthiness.

Buffett devoured the American economist's seminal book, The Intelligent Investor, while attending the University of Nebraska — Lincoln (UNL).

American economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is offering a vague and mildly pessimistic near - term prognosis of the global economy, including a hint that Canada's fate may yet follow that of the U.S.

But Citigroup North American economist Dana Peterson said energy could become a political football.

The most important effort was that of two leading American economists, William Nordhaus and James Tobin, around 1970.

Two leading American economists, William Nordhaus and James Tobin, undertook to take account of the criticisms and come up with a better measure of genuine economic progress.

A-C ranges from a luxury to a necessity to a literal lifesaver: a recent study (Alan Barreca et al., Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature - Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century) by American economists showed heat - related deaths in the U.S. dropped from roughly 3,600 per year to just 600 around 1960.

Now, Eisner's figures have come under fire from four other American economists.

Not exact matches

Neutral reports on the Trump administration's trade policy tend to include a line advising readers that most economists disagree with just about everything that comes out of the mouths of the president, Ross and Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative and leader of the American side at the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

In early 2004, as American house prices roared higher and there came dire warnings from some quarters about the existence of a bubble — accompanied, of course, by strident denials from banks, most economists and the mortgage and real estate industries — Ben Bernanke (then still a governor before he became Fed chairman) addressed the problem of what to tell the American people.

«There's a very high probability in the next six years that there's going to be a global downturn, or at least a North American downturn,» says Michael Dolega, a senior economist with TD.

For years economists — not to mention everyday Americans hanging out on bar stools or on Twitter — have argued about why even mediocre CEOs get paid such ridiculous sums of money.

Morneau's comments came after he met with private sector economists in Toronto to get their input on everything from the North American Free Trade Agreement to global economic uncertainty ahead of the federal budget on Feb. 27.

Notably, one of the Americans is Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning Princeton economist and New York Times columnist.

WASHINGTON, March 7 - An economist who believes that Chinese goods are literally poisoning Americans, advocates ending Washington's «One China» policy and says trade deals have weakened the United States economically with the connivance of U.S. business has emerged as the big winner from renewed turmoil in the White House.

«Because capital has been so hard to raise over the last four years, the simplest and most straightforward way has been to shrink assets, which means loans,» says James Chessen, chief economist for the American Bankers Association.

Technology, globalization, and one long recession — in which nearly one in six Americans reported losing a job, according to Princeton economist Henry Farber — have all disrupted old - fashioned employment.