Sentences with phrase «by most economists as»

Fiscal policy was seen by most economists as the preferred instrument for that purpose.

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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.

A paper last year by Princeton University's Alan Blinder and Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi credited the Fed's measures as the most effective alexipharmics employed to end the recession.

He's right that the policies were effective, and in many ways, that's the most important message to get out there now, as in this important new paper by economists Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi.

Unfortunately, Mr. Krugman's failure to see today's economic problem as one of debt deflation reflects his failure (suffered by most economists, to be sure) to recognize the need for debt writedowns, for restructuring the banking and financial system, and for shifting taxes off labor back onto property, economic rent and asset - price («capital») gains.

There are indeed several of monetary policy rules that may serve as a guidepost for the Federal Reserve, and the most prominent one is the often - cited Taylor rule by economist John B. Taylor.

In 2011, he was voted as the most influential economist in the world by Forbes magazine.

The term was first coined by Adam Smith, a Scottish economist in the 1700s, who defined the four most important types of fixed capital as buildings, land, machinery and humans.

The Federal Reserve may not have raised rates this month as many had anticipated, but, by and large, most economists and market experts say rates are headed higher, and sooner rather than later.

In the particularly difficult question of global warming, thus far most economists have argued that it will be more efficient to respond to the problems caused by global warming as they occur than to make serious efforts to reduce it, since these efforts would slow economic growth.

Although it is now clearly demonstrated that the most cost - effective step for most utility companies and industries is to invest in more efficient equipment so as to reduce the use of fuel, the energy policy of the Bush administration, supported by prevailing preferences among economists, gives only lip service to this approach.

Economists tend to promote economics as an ideology, partly by acts of omission in their teaching, but more often by explicit arguments that lead to the acceptance of economics as the first and most fundamental science of public life.

But most workers were paid more than subsistence wages as defined by economists.

Indeed, blue states have shown little appetite for implementing an economywide price on carbon, widely viewed by economists and policymakers as the most effective way to tackle carbon emissions.

By contrast, most economists and financial analysts regard such events as strange and unpredictable outliers.

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In addition, as pointed out by David Autor and several other economists, there has been a long - term polarization in the job market since the 1980s, with growth of high - skill and low - skill jobs at the expense of traditional middle - skill jobs, which have been most susceptible to automation and globalization.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

Flowers: «That said, I felt like the criticism of the CFR work by other academic economists, as well as the general caution of the ASA, warranted inclusion — and so I reached out to Jesse Rothstein, the most respected «anti-VAM» economist, for comment.

In fact, Helsinki has been ranked as one of the top 10 world's most liveable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2017.

When you have an interlocked directorship that operates through grants administered by «charitable foundations» and university endowments that really exist to control blocks of stock for management, they control the income and employment prospects of most scientists as well as economists.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

As the interpretation of infinity in economic climate models is essentially a debate about how to deal with the threat of extinction, Mr Weitzman's argument depends heavily on a judgement about the value of life... A lack of reliable data exacerbates the profound methodological and philosophical difficulties faced by climate change economists... The United Nations conference in Paris this December offers a chance to take appropriate steps to protect future generations from this risk... http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/07/climate-change (MOST COMMENTING ARE NOT AT ALL IMPRESSED)

Those scientists are distinguishable by their view on the science as being different than, arguably, the views held by most climate scientists (Tol is a bit trickier as perhaps the prevalence of opinion among economists is a bit less obvious).

Under more moderate estimates of climate sensitivity and conventionally applied discount rates, the SCC as presented by most economists is a global value.

Toronto, a city rated as one of the most livable in the world by The Economist, just elected a new mayor.

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The Harvard economist mainly sees BTC as a tool for criminal activity, a sentiment shared by most governments around the world today.

Pittsburgh is regularly touted as the most livable city in the United States by the magazines Forbes and The Economist.

Often described as the most diverse city in the world, Toronto also features the most green space of any North American city, and was rated the world's most livable city by The Economist in 2015.

This philosophy is a well - trotted - out argument used by many left - wing, as well as by some confused right - wing, political theorest economists, in the name of of pursuing so - called equity within the operation of a now - centralist, so - called freely inspired, but controlled nevertheless, free market system of distributing goods and services in a manner serving the best economic interests of the most people most of the time... yes?

Annual surveys, such as those conducted by The Economist, Mercer and Monocle, look at a range of criteria from infrastructure to environment, culture to climate, to determine the most liveable cities in the world.