Sentences with phrase «most leading economists»

Most leading economists are opposed to austerity.

Though if it doesn't, which most leading economists agree it will not, further funding or even a Plan B are low on the list of the new government's priorities.

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One of the most popular behavioral economists tweets about far - ranging issues like why we lie, and what psychological factors led to corruption on Wall Street.

Most economists accept that governments should adopt fiscal policies that will lead to a «sustainable fiscal structure».

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.

leading commentators and economists reveal facts and evidence of one of the most important and dramatic issues today... the global manipulation of the gold market.

The most important effort was that of two leading American economists, William Nordhaus and James Tobin, around 1970.

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.

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.

What sets the study apart from most previous evaluations is its randomized, controlled design — a relatively new approach honed by lead author Abhijit Banerjee, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and his colleagues.

«The cost of asthma is one of the most important measures of the burden of the disease,» said Tursynbek Nurmagambetov, PhD, lead study author and health economist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Students more likely to participate in free - and reduced - price lunch programs are among the same populations most likely to suffer from obesity and related health risks, said Janet Peckham, an economist in the Office of the Commissioner at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and lead author of the study.

While some unfunded pension liabilities are due to market fluctuations, including sharp stock market declines in 2002 and 2008, leading economists say the most severe cases are due to politicians» failure to keep up with employers» share of pension payments over many years (most public - sector workers also contribute toward their own pensions).

Quite simply, it's a plan that most business people and many leading economists say is very damaging both to the U.S. and to the Canadian economy.

Bjorn Lomborg, excoriated by some and lionized by others for being a best - selling promoter of free - market problem - solving, has teamed with eight leading economists and other experts in Copenhagen to produce a «Copenhagen Consensus» — a menu for getting the most advancement of the human condition out of an extra (hypothetical) $ 75 billion over four years.

Led mainly by libertarians and libertarian - leaning economists, they've begun to coalesce behind a carbon tax, which they consider the most market - friendly of the available alternatives.

In one scenario painted by the Deutsche Bank team led by chief economist Jun Ma, China's imports of thermal coal would cease by 2017, nearly a decade earlier than most forecasts, and coal consumption would fall from 68 per cent of total energy consumption to 32 per cent by 2030.

He served as economist at EDF (2008 — 2016), most recently as lead senior economist (2014 — 2016).

The British journal The Economist, one of the most revered opinion bellwethers of the chattering classes, has for years been a leading purveyor of the Al Gore - IPCC end - of - the - world fright peddling, when it comes to global warming.

In the year 2000, Dr. Blitzer was named to SmartMoney magazine's distinguished list of the 30 most influential people in the world of investing, which ranked him seventh, and in the year 1998, Dr. Blitzer was named the nation's top economist, receiving the Blue Chip Economic Forecasting Award for most accurately predicting the country's leading economic indicators for four years in a row.