His books include «Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of
the Great Stagnation.»
In the book Average is Over: Powering America Past the Age of
the Great Stagnation, Cowen writes that someday soon employers will be able to measure an employee's economic value «with a sometimes oppressive precision.»
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low - Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better.
It may even be the case that Americans can tolerate serious policy work by academics (like economist Cowen's e-book hit
The Great Stagnation) so long as it isn't padded out to 500 pages.
The Great Stagnation of American Education New York Times, 9/7/13» [Professor] Richard J. Murnane, an educational economist at Harvard, has found evidence that high school and college completion rates have begun to rise again, although part of this may be a result of weak labor markets that induce students to stay in school rather than face unemployment.»
A prominent convert to this emerging belief is Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University near Washington and author of «
The Great Stagnation,» a 2011 best seller, who has gone from doomsayer to a decidedly more optimistic perspective.
The Great Stagnation: In «Why the global economy may be doomed to lower growth — maybe forever,» Simone Foxman gives four reasons why economic growth may be much slower in the future: scarce resources, an aging labour force, stagnant technology growth and externalities from climate change.
Not exact matches
While many other people have referred to this period as the «new normal» or «secular
stagnation», I've referred to it as the «
Great Normalization».
While there are some signs of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use of the term secular
stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for global coordination and
greater use of fiscal policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.
Rather, I'm talking about Professor Alvin Hansen, who coined the phrase «secular
stagnation» in 1938, during the
Great Depression.
Almost (95 percent of the time give or take) all of the
great nations (think the U.S. and Roman Empire for starters) went thru cycles of growth,
stagnation, and then decline.
Interpreting those same words as knowledge comes only from the Quran has led that once
great civilization to a place of xenophobia and intellectual
stagnation.
While the
great surge of life was re-invigorating Christianity in Western Europe, in Eastern Europe and Western Asia the record was a contrast of
stagnation and advance.
Pulldowns, deadlifts, chin - ups and rows... all
great exercises, but even those staple exercises get downright BORING after awhile, not to mention the
STAGNATION you'll get in your training when you don't know any other good options.
Well - meaning participants in the debate on school reform (and I believe that to be the vast majority) want better school quality and
greater equity, and we need to start talking about the specific vehicles that will get us there rather than the misleading crap that stops the conversation and pits potential allies against each other, leading to unproductive bickering and
stagnation.
Watch the video above for everything you need to know about American public school staffing trends, the
Great Teacher Salary
Stagnation and who's responsible.
Back to the Staffing Surge: The
Great Teacher Salary
Stagnation and the Decades - Long Employment Growth in American Public Schools (EdChoice, May 2017)
Take the time to lose yourself in the big houses of Ireland's Ancient East this year and you'll discover a story over 5000 years in the making, through periods of prosperity,
stagnation, of war and endeavour, the
great Irish estates and their spectacular gardens will welcome you with open arms.
The
stagnation of once
great series and genres — especially titles that once motivated my platform purchases — is a particular downer.
Factor in the stubborn wage
stagnation that's persisted in the years since the
Great Recession, and any kind of future financial independence — stability, even — seems hopelessly out out reach for many Americans.
Whether you have a good marriage or relationship that you want to make
great, or one that is filled with distress or
stagnation, or even one that is on the brink of breakup, this couples retreat is for you.