Sentences with phrase «leading economist»

There are currently six bills before Congress to fix the problem of «patent trolls» and now a leading economist is calling for even more dramatic measures.

Time to buy a bike: Gasoline prices in North America will soar over the next four years to $ 7.00, causing a massive jolt to the continent's manufacturing base not seen since the oil shocks of the 1970s, a leading economist is warning.

A leading economist says the world should reject lies about carbon emissions, pricing them to show the real cost of fossil fuel.

30 May, 2017 — A leading economist says the world should reject lies about carbon emissions, pricing them to show the real cost of fossil fuel.

It gave me the opportunity to sit down next to a leading economist who schooled me on a few things about the retail world as we traveled from one coast to the other.

Kaletsky (2008) wrote in the Financial Times of «those who failed to foresee the gravity of this crisis — a group that includes Mr King, Mr Brown, Alistair Darling, Alan Greenspan and almost every leading economist and financier in the world.»

U.S. housing prices may still fall more than 10 per cent, killing an incipient recovery, as demand from first - time home buyers fades, leading economist Nouriel Roubini said Thursday.

He does cite the leading economist in this area, Eric Hanushek, at considerable length.

Bridget Terry Long to Lead Ed School (Harvard Gazette, May 2, 2018) Bridget Terry Long, A.M.» 97, Ph.D.» 00, a leading economist and internationally recognized scholar on the economics of higher education, will become the next dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Harvard President Drew Faust announced today.

And as a leading economist and a special adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations, he has a unique appreciation of the monetary and political obstacles to tackling these global challenges.

He is a leading economist, fund manager and policy adviser who has previously worked for Goldman Sachs and the RBA, and was a director of the Menzies Research Centre.

A leading economist pronounced «no - one has ever died of overpopulation».

Looking at this situation, a leading economist suggests that countries with an increasing scarcity of food may well fall into the hands of strong - arm dictators.

But «it is likely that the uncertainty surrounding the presidential election had a negative impact, especially among lower income consumers, and without that added uncertainty, the confidence measures may not have weakened,» said Richard Curtin, the leading economist of the University of Michigan's preliminary consumer confidence survey.

McClanahan was invited to speak at the event by Professor Stephanie Kelton, a leading economist who served as Sen. Bernie Sanders» chief economic advisor.

Years ago, under Paul Martin, Finance stopped using its own forecasts, opting instead to base the budget on the average prediction of a group of outsiders, mostly the lead economists at the country's biggest banks.

With a more apples - to - apples comparison controlling for such factors, «the gap all but disappears,» said Katie Bardaro, lead economist for salary data site PayScale.com.

His sweeping reforms led The Economist to name Uruguay its «country of the year» in 2013.

As Shiller wrote in 2011 in Project Syndicate, an online opinion forum featuring leading economists., the market for farmlands isn't nearly as big as the housing market or stock market, for that matter.

«While much attention has focused on the role of China in slowing world trade growth, the trajectory of world trade growth from here depends more on the «old world» markets of the U.S. and Europe than standard trade data would suggest,» said Adam Slater, lead economist at Oxford Economics, in a report out last week.

«While the headlines oftentimes go to the large - sized companies, The PayScale Index for the second consecutive quarter showed wage growth for small companies outpacing medium and large companies,» Katie Bardaro, lead economist, PayScale, explained on the company's blog.

Morneau is scheduled to sit down Friday in Toronto with leading economists at a roundtable that typically includes about a dozen experts from commercial banks, think tanks and trade associations.

«Any job where you get the majority of your training in school and the first few years of your career is not going to see much pay growth after that,» says Katie Bardaro, lead economist at PayScale.

But having more room to cut rates isn't the only reason leading some economists to flirt with higher inflation.

Since one of the industry's leading economists is suggesting that coworking's growth is «absolutely unprecedented», expect more participation from this giant industry.

Gross domestic product grew 1.7 percent in the second quarter, though favorable trade deficit figures on Tuesday led some economists to boost their estimates for future revisions.

Klaus Deininger, the lead economist with the World Bank's Development Research Group, recently argued that while emerging technologies, including blockchain, offer important new ways to record land ownership, they should not be viewed as a cure - all to land rights woes in jurisdictions with weak institutions.

So why are so many leading economists optimistic about the second?

«Leading economists have noted the increasing prevalence of platform business models, where multiple networks of stakeholders bring value to each other by exploiting network effects,» said Graham Waller, research vice president at Gartner.

Over 1,100 leading economists sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging the president to reverse course on recent trade tactics — lest the US repeat one of the biggest mistakes of the Great Depression.

This policy — announced in the Plaza Accord of 1985 — led economist David Hale to joke that the Bank of Japan was acting as the Thirteenth Federal Reserve District and the Japanese government as the Republican Re-election Committee.

Over the past several months, many leading economists and financial experts — even Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen — have concurred that there are various elements of the economy that are in a bubble or on the cusp of entering into the bubble phase.

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers is one of America's leading economists.

«The benefits of global trade are far - reaching,» said Bodhi Ganguli, Lead Economist for Dun & Bradstreet's Country Risk Services.

CNBC asked leading economists Alan Krueger and Ed Lazear to weigh in on President Obama's record on jobs.

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Despite this, according to the report, many leading economists, including the Chairman of the Federal reserve system, Janet Yellen still believes that kryptowaluty suitable for the standard definition of money called Bitcoin much spekulatywnym resource.

But the advice given by leading economists to the United States government has been to emphasize policies that lead to economic growth so that we will be in position to pay the costs of global warming as they arise.

While it may come as a surprise to many, this difference in emphasis actually has the effect of leading our economists and businessmen to preach a message for the world's poor that is charged with greater hope than what is typically taught by many of our leading theologians and preachers.

Lester Thurow, one of the most liberal of America's leading economists, has written that the one great success story since World War II has been in agriculture.

«There is nothing in economic theory that requires» such narrowness (EC 5 - 5), but having captured their imagination this abstraction now leads all economists to discount «the effect of one person's welfare on that of others through bonds of sympathy..., and the physical effects of one person's production and consumption activities on others through bonds of bio-physical community» (EC 5 - 3).

He was previously the director of the Economic Policy Program at Oxford Policy Management and the lead economist of the Australian Aid program in Indonesia.

The case for that rests on the assumption that there is «no alternative», which is at odds with the views of many leading economists.

The number of people losing their home rose by a fifth last year, as one of parliament's leading economists predicts the figure will rise further in 2008.

He also believed, like a number of leading economists, that the direction of economic policy needed to change.

«The weight of evidence from these hundred leading economists is clear.

Already, 100 business leaders supported the continuation of austerity in The Telegraph, but a clear majority of the leading economists does not, instead arguing that it harms growth.

Leading economists, including Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern say taxes of $ 100 per metric tonne could be needed by 2030

Sceptical environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg says some of the world's leading economists are optimistic about the state of the planet (12...

This led some economists of the time to conclude that «input - based» policies such as providing more money to schools, reducing class sizes and improving teacher qualifications had «failed», and that improvements in schools now depended on giving teachers direct incentives to raise student performance: