Fiscal policy was
seen by most economists as the preferred instrument for that purpose.
Not exact matches
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.
A 2006 paper
by economists at the University of Essex in England analyzed data from 3,600 male and female speed daters to
see if people selected mates with similar traits, like height and education, because that is what they prefer or because they are
most likely to encounter them in the dating market.
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.
They let their liberal - progressive ideas of the perfect be the enemy of what one MIT energy
economist called «
by far the
most aggressive U.S. proposal» he's ever
seen.
The Harvard
economist mainly
sees BTC as a tool for criminal activity, a sentiment shared
by most governments around the world today.