Sentences with phrase «liberal economists»

Republican Larry Lindsey characterizes recent comments made by liberal economists as «economic name - calling.»

Not the position of liberal economist Paul Krugman, who recently argued in his New York Times column that doing nothing would be better than preserving the Bush tax cuts for higher - income earners.

A former economic adviser in the George W. Bush administration wants to place a bet with two liberal economists over the GOP tax plan.

Liberal economists note that overall wages tend to be higher in union - friendly states; conservative economists counter that unemployment tends to be higher in those states, too.

But perhaps the most promising option, teased by a large group of tax law experts and vocally championed by prominent liberal economist Dean Baker, is for states to repeal their income taxes and replace them with employer - side payroll taxes.

Those same liberal economists have nothing good to say about the more traditional trickle down tax reform bill passed by the Republican Congress.

He says that it's important to distinguish between facts and opinion, which is why he found «odd and distasteful» an undergraduate course in macroeconomics taught by Paul Krugman, the outspoken liberal economist who in 2008 would win a Nobel Prize in economic sciences for his work on international trade patterns.

In the last year or so there has been a spate of articles by liberal economists exploring the causes of and possible solutions to declining productivity and increasing inequality in the United States.

There are two basic problems with the pro-fiscal spending argument of liberal economists.

For instance, Dean Baker, a liberal economist, sees the stock market rise as a double - edged sword, leading to the bursting of the bubble in 2001 and perhaps helping shape a subsequent decade of only modest job growth.

With endorsements from most every liberal economist — and plenty of conservative ones — it is the socially acceptable voodoo economics.

Liberal economist, and co-editor of The American Prospect, Robert Kuttner goes further:

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski MPA» 61, a liberal economist, has won the majority of votes in Peru's presidential election.

But Spencer went, in these matters, to an extreme position far beyond the views of most economic - liberal economists, and his outlook must not be confused with theirs.

Whether the parties consult conservative or liberal economists, they will be pointed towards a carbon tax.

But it's gotten little traction until recently when both conservative and liberal economists have argued that a carbon tax could help cut the federal deficit and keep other taxes low.