Sentences with phrase «leading economists who»

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

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.

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Moody's economist Mark Zandi, who has been a big supporter of President Obama, as well as John McCain, has said he thinks Trump's economic policies would lead to a recession.

One of the most fortunate events in my life was to study under four brilliant economists at Stanford, who also formed my dissertation committee - Ronald McKinnon, an influential and original scholar in international economics; Thomas Sargent, a leading «rational expectations» theorist; John Taylor, also a «rational expectations» macroeconomist (currently serving in the Bush administration, and a leading candidate to succeed Alan Greenspan at the Fed, according to the Wall Street Journal), and Robert Hall, who heads the official Recession Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

I was joined by 13 other economists who have led the President's Council of Economic Advisers, a post I held from 2003 to 2005.

Economists like Stanley, who expects the corporate tax cut to lift wages over time, think it will happen indirectly as companies channel their tax savings into machinery, computers and software, making workers productive and leading to higher pay.

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.

The overwhelming support of economists and those many other academics who follow their lead can not be taken for granted for a brazen American imperialism.

According to Davison Budhoo, an economist who had worked with both the World Bank and the IMP before he quit the latter in protest against its policies, on the basis of the figures released by UNICEF, it is estimated that those policies led directly to the death of 70 million children under 5 years in the Third World between the years 1982 - 1990 and indirectly to the destitution and impoverishment of several hundred millions more 8.

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.

Arsenal fc, a club lead by a narcistic wannabe economist of a manager who gets backed from a board full of bankers and no football people at all.

There's James Heckman, a Nobel Prize - winning economist at the University of Chicago, who found in the late 1990s that students who earned high school diplomas through the General Educational Development program, widely known as the GED, had the same future prospects as high school dropouts, a discovery that led him to conclude that there were qualities beyond courses and grades that made a big difference in students» success.

The group, led by Wayne County GOP Chairman Dan Olson, an early supporterof Blakeman's primary opponent, economist David Malpass, argues in a letter to Blakeman that Malpass is the «only candidate» who can bring a strong challenge to Gillibrand.

Positive Slovenia, whose leading European candidate is prominent economist Jože Mencinger, who describes himself as a eurosceptic, polled just 4.6 %.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg said it's «pure fantasy to think that the tax bill will lead to significantly higher wages and growth, as Republicans have promised,» adding: «Had Congress actually listened to executives, or economists who study these issues carefully, it might have realized that.»

The study also revealed that obese individuals who had comorbidities such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol incurred more costs than obese workers without these conditions, says Karen Van Nuys, Ph.D., lead coauthor and economist at Precision Health Economics in Los Angeles.

Bill Hare, who leads a group of top climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.»

«We found that these programs promoted independent living in the community among people who had serious mental illness but had not been served or underserved previously,» said Jangho Yoon, an assistant professor of health policy and health economist in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences and lead author of the study.

«Laboratory experiments with human subjects can provide empirical validation of individual decision rules of agents, their interactions and emergent macro behavior», says Cars Hommes, who leads a group of behavioral economists at the University of Amsterdam.

One such politician seeking reelection this year is Pennsylvania's Governor Tom Corbett who has been heavily touting what several leading Pennsylvanian labor economists believe are questionable job creation numbers in the state's Marcellus Shale formation.

The first steps toward the international move began about 15 years ago with some gentle prodding by a group of leading international reporters — from New Scientist, The Economist, Nature and The Guardian — who had been urging an expansion of the program.

Instead of breakthrough that would lead to overcoming the global economic crisis, the scenario of the global economic collapse was predicted by the great thinker and French economist Jacques Attali (2010) who predicts the occurrence of four steps to the unfolding economic crisis that erupted in 2008 in United States and that spilled over the world: 1) the public debts become heavier; 2) the failure of the euro and the global depression; 3) the failure of the Dollar and the return of global inflation; and, 4) the depression and ruin of Asia.

Moreover, the book's format - lengthy essays by Krueger and Heckman (who teamed up with fellow economist Pedro Carneiro, now of University College London, for his contribution), followed by commentaries from five scholars, each with a favorite bone (or nit) to pick, then by extended responses and final rejoinders from the lead authors - makes it hard to find the forest for the trees.

Also arguing the government should make it compulsory for schools to measure wellbeing was Gus O'Donnell, an economist who led the civil service under David Cameron.

This led to a conflict with academic economists who insisted the optimal strategy was derived from utility maximization.

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.»

Rajendra Pachauri, the scientist and economist who leads the I.P.C.C., noted: «What we do in the next two or three years will define our future.»

This need is not lost on the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate — a group of national finance ministers, former heads of state, and leading global economists — who called in 2015 for international financial institutions to develop a package of $ 1 billion over five years to support the world's 500 largest cities in reducing climate pollution and building urban resilience.

In his latest column for the New York Times, economist and liberal pundit Paul Krugman argues that a new report from the Chamber of Commerce, intended to show that reducing carbon emissions will be too costly, is actually a great piece of evidence for those who argue that the U.S. can lead the fight against climate change without appreciably hurting its economy.

Anil Markandya is a resource economist who has worked in this field for over thirty years and is acknowledged as one of the leading authorities.

Because the earth (mother earth, or Gaia, to all you tree hugger freaks) knows what we want, and what is best for us, and what is best is our nice Goldilocks climate that supports the inviolate and constitutionally protected right to cheap, atmosphere changing fossil fuels even though said usage essentially reverses 10s of millions of years of earth lower atmosphere affecting energy balances within a mere speck of time) and not you eco fools who want to harm the poor (something climate change would never do, bill gates and the world's leading scientists and thinkers and economists are fools to even think it — climate change will affect the wealthy) just to give the even more power over our individual lives.

Just over two years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist's version of sainthood: A vegetarian economist - engineer who leads the United Nations» climate change panel, he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the panel, sharing the honor with former Vice President Al Gore.

Leading the pack, Daily Mail reporter David Rose attempted to equate Stavins» concerns with those of economist Richard Tol, who withdrew «from the summary of an earlier volume of the full IPCC report, on the grounds it had been «sexed up» by the same government officials and had become overly «alarmist.»»

It is refreshing that you, as a self - described specialist of «scientific investigation of climate», do not want to make any specific suggestions for actionable proposals, which could lead to a reduction in global warming, and rather leave that to «economists» (who presumably, however, have no notions about the «scientific investigation of climate»)...

Stern: Confused climate skeptics A leading British climate change economist warned Tuesday that those who doubt the science of global warming are confused — and said their skepticism should not derail efforts to strike a climate deal in Denmark.

We do that by applying what's called the «social cost of carbon,»» said Seema Jayachandran, an economist at Northwestern University in the US, who led the research.

«where economists need to lead», if there are any who have an intellectual tool kit that can address the problem, which isn't clear.

The 32 hand - picked signatories comprise a virtual «who's who» of leading climate economists and other «wise men» (and women) including four Nobel laureates, three former U.S. cabinet secretaries, and prominent academics from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and the University of Chicago.

One expert who believes that B.C. has more to lose than gain by rushing off the bench to join the California - led scheme is Mark Jaccard, a Simon Fraser University economist best known as a member of the Nobel Prize winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

A brilliant economist from totally rebutted a leading englilsh denialist who had previously spokent to packed houses»

Ronit is recognised as a leading Competition Law expert — International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers and Economists 2014.

Preparing for Life (PFL) is a community - led initiative operated by the Northside Partnership in North Dublin and was evaluated over a seven - year period by the UCD Geary Institute under the direction of Dr Orla Doyle, an economist who has been awarded the Barrington Medal for her work in the economic and social sciences.

«Gavin was one of Australia's leading health economists who used his knowledge and skills to improve the lives of the disadvantaged in Australia and around the world,» Ms Prue Power AM, CEO of the AHHA, said today.

Mooney, who personally trained many of Australia's leading health economists, was no gentle nurturer.