• The chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is also the economic counsellor and director of the fund's Research Department and is responsible for providing independent advice to the fund on its policy issues, integrating ideas of the research in the design of policies, conveying these ideas to the policymakers inside and outside the fund and managing all research done at IMF. (wikipedia.org)
  • Earlier the IMF named her one of the top 25 economists under 45 in 2014, Financial Times named her one of the 25 Indians to Watch in 2012, and she was chosen as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011. (wikipedia.org)
  • Donaldson's work put a value on the economic contributions of trade and won him the 2017 John Bates Clark Medal-known as the Baby Nobel-awarded for the most significant contributions by an economist under the age of 40. (imf.org)
  • So economists are very interested in that, because those often get left out of the normal economic equation, where people think about, you know, what did you pay and if it was worth it. (truthout.org)
  • Economists like to bring those costs to light, and we want to shed light on the idea that there are these externalities: people who are downwind from the chemical facility, or live near a toxic storage facility, who are affected by the use of that facility even if they are not direct economic decisionmakers in the location of that facility or where that facility's products are bought and sold. (truthout.org)
  • The Chief Economist provides thought leadership inside and outside of the EBRD on economic issues related to the Bank's work in its countries of operation . (ebrd.com)
  • The Chief Economist ensures that the economics research agenda of the EBRD continues to put the Bank at the forefront of understanding the economic and strategic challenges facing the Bank's region and to help the Bank formulate effective policy responses. (ebrd.com)
  • The Office of the Chief Economist is also responsible for macroeconomic forecasting and contributes to the work of the Bank's Risk Management in building scenarios for identifying and navigating emergent risks and conducting stress testing, as well as assisting regional economists with timely cross-country macroeconomic analysis and economic forecasting. (ebrd.com)
  • In 2004-13, Dr. Guriev was a tenured professor of economics and rector of the New Economic School in Moscow. (ebrd.com)
  • In 2011, he was a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Europe, in 2012-14 - a co-chair of the Global Agenda Council on the New Economic Thinking, and in 2014-15 - a member of the Global Agenda Council on the Geo-Economics. (ebrd.com)
  • Because of this, economists have nothing to offer in the way of a scientifically founded economic policy guidance. (blogspot.com)
  • As economic expansions raise employment and wages, associated shifts in income and time constraints would be expected to also impact individuals' health. (wine-economics.org)
  • Economists today cast doubt on official data showing that British gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.4 per cent between July and September, claiming the surprise fall is far worse than economic reality. (cobdencentre.org)
  • Wapshott discusses Samuelson's textbook and the changes it has undergone over time as the economic consensus shifts. (freebeacon.com)
  • Welcome to Ask an Economist, a public service of the Department of Economics at Iowa State University, designed to answer your economic questions. (iastate.edu)
  • Blaming the failure of economic models to cope with "irrational behaviour" in the modern era, the economist said the profession needed to adapt to regain the trust of the public and politicians. (theguardian.com)
  • In his latest column for the New York Times , award-winning economist and liberal pundit Paul Krugman returns to one of his recurring themes and tries to understand how the field of economics could not only fail to predict the economic catastrophe of 2008, but fail to ensure policymakers in the West responded to it with pro-growth, countercyclical spending. (salon.com)
  • The big problem with economic policy is not, however, that conventional economics doesn't tell us what to do. (salon.com)
  • Frederic Bastiat (1801-50) was a French essayist and economist, who is best known for his clever parables destroying economic fallacies, such as the "petition of the candlemakers" and the "broken window theory. (mskousen.com)
  • All economic activity is carried out through time. (wikiquote.org)
  • Every individual economic process occupies a certain time, and all linkages between economic processes necessarily involve longer or shorter periods of time. (wikiquote.org)
  • They repeated 18 laboratory experiments in economics whose results had been published in the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics between 2011 and 2014. (econlib.org)
  • We all make economic decisions all of the time. (ubs.com)
  • Consider this recent comment by Powell: "In contrast, the [Federal Open Market Committee's] easing of monetary policy increased over time as the longer-term economic effects of the crisis gradually became clear. (mercatus.org)
  • This is my third in a series on why we need to hear more from economists and less from non-economists especially on economic topics. (independent.org)
  • Yesterday saw the release of a letter , signed by 370 economists, denouncing Donald Trump and his tendency to promote "magical thinking and conspiracy theories over sober assessments of feasible economic policy options. (env-econ.net)
  • Several weeks earlier, a group of 305 economists had signed a separate letter denouncing Hillary Clinton's "ill-advised economic agenda. (env-econ.net)
  • The ETCP works to expand current research in the economics of tobacco control and enhance the knowledge of economic and tax issues among tobacco control advocates and policymakers to strengthen support for tobacco tax and price increases in sub-Saharan Africa. (who.int)
  • Anja works as an independent economic expert and a researcher at Research on Socioeconomic Policy (RESEP) at the Economics Department of Stellenbosch University. (lu.se)
  • In this seminal work, the author demonstrates how different levels of happiness are correlated with different levels of income both among and within countries at any given time, but that over time happiness does not trend upward at the same pace as economic growth. (bvsalud.org)
  • axiomatic theories of individual choice under risk and uncertainty, · reference dependent utility theories, · theories of inter-temporal decision making, · how these theories contribute to the analysis of a wide range of fundamental problems in economics and finance, · psychological phenomena important for economic and financial decision making. (lu.se)
  • The course will cover the standard economic model based on exponential discounting, which assumes that behaviour is time-consistent. (lu.se)
  • In a 1988 address called "What Economists Do," Robert Lucas of the University of Chicago said that he and his fellow economists are actually storytellers. (freebeacon.com)
  • Given both positions can't be true, MIT Sloan's Christopher Knittel and ten fellow economists reviewed the model underlying this recent analysis. (mit.edu)
  • Several notable economists like Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), best known as the author of "The Theory of the Leisure Class," were totally disagreeable people. (mskousen.com)
  • Even during the great recession of 2007 economists were clueless about the policy interventions to be made and ended up recommending policy lessons from the Great Depression. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Economists had widely expected that the country had emerged from recession between July and September. (cobdencentre.org)
  • Further, only areas such as game theory and behavioural economics are currently predominantly based on lab experiments. (econlib.org)
  • Even in normal times, Wengström's research focuses specifically on experimental behavioural economics. (lu.se)
  • Students shall have the ability to interpret empirical results through the lens of the classical decision theories as well as the psychologically grounded alternative theories proposed by behavioural economics, and to apply these theories to design interventions to improve behavioural outcomes. (lu.se)
  • Second, we will discuss alternative, more psychologically grounded, theories from behavioural economics that can better accommodate the empirical evidence. (lu.se)
  • Sergei Guriev was the EBRD's Chief Economist from September 2016 to September 2019. (ebrd.com)
  • For example, how many of the 673 economists who endorsed Mitt Romney in 2012 were now turning against the 2016 Republican nominee? (env-econ.net)
  • The position has been held by the following: After the announcement of Maurice Obstfeld's retirement in December 2018, Harvard professor Gita Gopinath, a leading scholar in exchange rates, sovereign debt and capital flows was appointed as chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). (wikipedia.org)
  • The past four Fed chairs have all been economists, with a deep understanding of monetary policy. (mercatus.org)
  • Even many economists can get confused by the connection between interest rates and monetary policy, but the problem is even more severe among non-economists. (mercatus.org)
  • His replacement, Paul Volcker , had a much deeper understanding of monetary economics. (mercatus.org)
  • One of the debates Wapshott spends the most time on is, rather fittingly, inflation. (freebeacon.com)
  • Inflation has been unusually high - but these are unusual times. (ubs.com)
  • Miller thought that to fight the high inflation of the time it was enough to keep interest rates high. (mercatus.org)
  • But inflation erodes this money's value by the time it gets to you, making you and your family poorer. (strike-the-root.com)
  • At Princeton's economics department, her Ph.D. advisors included two future chief economists of the IMF - professor Ken Rogoff (2001-03) and professor Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (2022-25) and a future Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - professor Ben Bernanke (2006-14). (wikipedia.org)
  • Gopinath had been earlier scheduled to return to her academic position at Harvard University in January 2022 on completion of her term as Chief Economist. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gita Gopinath, the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Economics at Harvard University's economics department is the first woman to hold this position. (wikipedia.org)
  • Finding your company on the Toxic 100 list may sound like an embarrassing public relations debacle, but Toxic 100 co-author Michael Ash , a professor of economics and public policy, says the list is actually a great tool for corporate management and investors. (truthout.org)
  • In 1997-98, Dr. Guriev visited the Department of Economics at M.I.T. for a one-year post-doctoral placement, and in 2003-2004, the Department of Economics at Princeton University as a Visiting Assistant Professor. (ebrd.com)
  • HORSLEY: They called Professor Imbens out on the West Coast about 2 o'clock his time this morning. (wqln.org)
  • Despite its recent vintage, the field of economics has a widely agreed-on founding father - Adam Smith (1723-1790) - who was a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. (mskousen.com)
  • This University of California, Berkeley professor of economics is the first high profile lefty (Pinko? (economicpolicyjournal.com)
  • Reading in between the lines, and not too deeply in between them, I surmise the good professor is saying this article of mine never should have been published anywhere, and, indeed, would not ever have been published in any decent (e.g., "prestigious" in the eyes of mainstream economists such as himself) journal. (economicpolicyjournal.com)
  • Owen is currently with the Center for Global Development and a professor at the London School of Economics. (undispatch.com)
  • William Adams , Professor of Industrial Economics at the University of Michigan. (ifri.org)
  • In the long run, however, you will be wrong and that can have devastating consequences for your company," says Lars Oxelheim, professor emeritus of Business Administration at Lund University School of Economics and Management and one of the authors of the book Corporate Foreign Exchange Risk Management . (lu.se)
  • Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Haas School of Business and the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, and is the director of the Graduate Program in Health Management. (who.int)
  • Working in this way on such highly topical issues is completely new to me," says Erik Wengström, professor of economics at Lund University School of Economics and Management. (lu.se)
  • When I say that all economists know this, there is one notable exception: Paul Krugman. (independent.org)
  • Richard W. Rahn - economist, syndicated columnist and entrepreneur - reviewed the most recently updated fourth edition of The Making of Modern Economics by Mark Skousen. (mskousen.com)
  • Libertarian economist Russ Roberts sums up the feeling in his article " The Economist as Scapegoat ," when he writes of the odd phenomenon of left-wing commentators blaming Milton Friedman for everything that goes wrong in the economy even though Friedman's ideas have rarely been enacted. (freebeacon.com)
  • Mr. Skousen has produced the single best book on virtually all of those who have had a significant impact on the field of economics - for good or bad - regardless of their political leanings. (mskousen.com)
  • after all he is a leader in our field of economics. (economicpolicyjournal.com)
  • Donaldson, now 40, has changed the way economists conduct empirical research on trade, says Esther Duflo, a cofounder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT and herself the winner of the John Bates Clark medal in 2010. (imf.org)
  • However, there is empirical evidence that people sometimes behave in a time-inconsistent manner, postponing activities with immediate costs and being too eager on performing actions with immediate rewards. (lu.se)
  • She was named among Bloomberg 50 people who defined 2019, Foreign Policy named her one of the Top Global Thinkers in 2019 and Time magazine named her among the Women who Broke Major Barriers to Become 'Firsts' in 2019. (wikipedia.org)
  • One note, Rachel, we should say - the committee took note of the fact that Card's groundbreaking work on the minimum wage was a cooperative project with the late Princeton economist Alan Krueger, who sadly died back in 2019. (wqln.org)
  • But in social sciences like economics, it's often impractical or unethical for researchers to conduct that kind of experiment. (wqln.org)
  • 5.) Economists are more likely to conduct robustness checks to rule out spurious significance. (econlib.org)
  • Economists need to take that very seriously because that is often left out of the conventional accounting of whether a company is doing a good job or not. (truthout.org)
  • The conventional wisdom includes respected economists like Michael Woodford, Christy Romer, Jeffrey Frankel, Larry Summers and James Bullard. (themoneyillusion.com)
  • The job is one of the most prestigious in the field, and has been held by some of the most prominent academic researchers in international economics. (wikipedia.org)
  • He was a member of the Scientific Council of the BRUEGEL think tank (Brussels), of the Advisory Council of the Peterson Institute on International Economics (Washington, DC), and of the Academic Advisory Board, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University. (ebrd.com)
  • Friedrich August von Hayek CH ( 8 May 1899 - 23 March 1992 ) was an Austrian, later British, economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism . (wikiquote.org)
  • I joined UBS back in 1992 as an intern economist working in our investment bank. (ubs.com)
  • Dr. Guriev's research interests include contract theory, corporate governance, political economics and labour mobility. (ebrd.com)
  • There is a broad and extensive labour market for economists both nationally and internationally. (lu.se)
  • The chief economist is part of the senior leadership team, directly advises the managing director, and leads about a hundred Ph.D. economists in the Research Department. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Office of the Chief Economist undertakes and presents their own research, representing the Bank at high-level external policy and academic conferences and workshops, publishes in academic and non-academic outlets, and maintains strong links between the EBRD and academia. (ebrd.com)
  • In 2000 and 2005, he was awarded Gold Medal for the Best Research in Development Economics by the Global Development Network. (ebrd.com)
  • In a well-referenced paper, Sherry Glied and Erin Miller summarized the history of health economics research and its policy impact, with emphasis in the second half on the Affordable Care Act. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
  • The tl;dr version is that the Congressional Budget Office's bill scoring role is the institutional mechanism by which health economics research affects policy. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
  • Not mentioned by Glied and Miller, is that the Office of Management and Budget's evidence-based budgeting initiative is another mechanism by which health economics, as well as other social policy research, could affect policy. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
  • MARTIN: So I understand this research was based on a policy split between neighboring states, and there are other examples where economists can take advantage of a natural experiment. (wqln.org)
  • And Eva Mork of the Nobel Prize Committee says that creates a lot of opportunities for economists to do interesting research. (wqln.org)
  • The Greqam is a research center in the area of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. (aeaweb.org)
  • Programs with teams of economists have been extremely successful in developing research, policies, and practices that have reflected reasonable decisions, respectful of limited health resources. (cdc.gov)
  • With the bad reputation attached to the tobacco industry in Africa, from corporate espionage and social patronage to racketeering and other illegal activities, Van Walbeek believes that sound research on different aspects of the economics of tobacco control in the region will help governments in Africa to implement better strategies. (who.int)
  • To maintain an effective national surveillance and research system, "collaboration is needed among health practitioners, economists, epidemiologists, data managers, government officials and many others. (who.int)
  • Although the Global Tobacco Surveillance System data, there is a need for has been implemented for the last 10 years and standardization to allow adhoc research conducted in many countries on comparability between the economics of tobacco, there are still many and within countries in gaps and challenges. (who.int)
  • Research often takes a very long time, and it takes time for it to be published and noticed. (lu.se)
  • It has been clear that the research community and society have learnt about the pandemic over time," says Erik Wengström. (lu.se)
  • Currently, he is Head of Research and Policy for the Africa Region at International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs). (lu.se)
  • My interest in behavioral economics continues to grow, and PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL is an excellent addition to my library. (librarything.com)
  • There's one punchline philosophy, which is to apply a bit of behavioral economics to the process. (vox.com)
  • The mantra of applied behavioral economics is to make it easy. (vox.com)
  • As President Obama and Congress began debating health care reform in 2009, 32 prominent health economists sent the President a letter stating, "This provision offers the most promising approach to reducing private-sector health care costs while also giving a much needed raise to the tens of millions of Americans who receive insurance through their employers" (Rampell, 2009). (theincidentaleconomist.com)
  • Back in the 1950s a prominent Norwegian public health pioneer even diagnosed economists as a worse threat to health than tuberculosis! (who.int)
  • Academia, of course, trains and provides numerous talented economists and modelers. (cdc.gov)
  • But studying the market for salt in 19th century India and the effects on trade of building a railroad led the prize-winning economist Dave Donaldson to important new findings that are relevant today. (imf.org)
  • The New York Times. (wikipedia.org)
  • New York Times (October 22, 2011). (hbs.edu)
  • And the New York Times newsroom has provided excellent coverage for the duration of the war. (kse.ua)
  • This makes the recent piece released by the New York Times Editorial Board questioning the United States' readiness to support a Ukrainian victory all the more pronounced. (kse.ua)
  • It seems that, again, the New York Times Editorial Board has undermined its own newsroom's critical reporting with an irresponsible, out-of-touch, and poorly reasoned editorial demonstrating anything but expertise on Ukraine and on Russia's colonial violence in the region. (kse.ua)
  • He has also been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and Scientific American. (librarything.com)
  • The Economist is clearly a part of the elite media (along with the Financial Times , the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post . (themoneyillusion.com)
  • And he has a huge communications platform: the New York Times. (independent.org)
  • Economists are incompetent scientists. (blogspot.com)
  • The PE Fellowship is responsible for recruiting and engaging the vast majority of economists, decision scientists, and quantitative policy analysts at CDC. (cdc.gov)
  • The subject is now an extensive field of inquiry among economists and social scientists. (bvsalud.org)
  • At any point in time, there are *many* bonds traded: a vast majority are bonds that were issued in the past, but have not yet matured, and a relatively small number of bonds are bonds that are being newly issued. (iastate.edu)
  • This interest is clearly visible in the present book, Veblen , which shows Camic embedding the economist historically while closely attending to Veblen's concrete intellectual practices. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Criticism of economics - for hubris, neglect of social goals beyond incomes, excessive attention to formal techniques, or failure to predict major developments such as financial crises - has usually come from outsiders, or from a heterodox fringe. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Despite these mistakes, Krugman says, the truth is that while most economists did not predict the crash, most have subsequently responded by promoting the correct Keynesian response. (salon.com)
  • Bank economists smugly predict dollar rates down to decimals, but it is pure luck the whole time. (lu.se)
  • There are three prevailing theoretical frameworks in economics: Vienna (Austrian), Cambridge (Keynes). (cobdencentre.org)
  • It inspired him to pursue a PhD at the London School of Economics (LSE). (imf.org)
  • Gopinath, who was born in India, received her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2001 after earning a B.A. from the University of Delhi and M.A. degrees from both the Delhi School of Economics and University of Washington. (wikipedia.org)
  • The treatment of the South Tirolese by the Italians, even before the advent of Fascism worse than anything known until then in modern times in any part of Western or Central Europe, has made the population more unwilling than ever to endure it further. (wikiquote.org)
  • He has also had a large impact on development economics by bringing trade and development closer together and introducing development economics to new ways of thinking about key issues such as infrastructure, with a trade lens. (imf.org)
  • Donaldson says he supposes he "fell prey-prior to learning the basic logic of formal economics-to the trap of thinking that international things like trade, development, and FDI [foreign direct investment] might have a strong zero-sum-game feature to them whereby rich countries might get rich at the expense of their interactions with lower-income countries. (imf.org)
  • In his new intellectual biography, Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics , Charles Camic argues that if we trace the development of Veblen's concrete intellectual practices and his affiliations, we find an academic who was distinctly an insider, 'a solidly anchored professional academic of the modern day' (290) - though one who turned his orthodox training against prevailing opinion. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Camic is at home in this time period, as a sociologist of knowledge who has long studied the development of the American social sciences from the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Owen describes how witnessing that famine up close compelled him to a career in economics and global development. (undispatch.com)
  • At the time of his appointment last year, Karlan was already a giant in the field of development economics. (vox.com)
  • Dr Anja Smith is a development economist and academic. (lu.se)
  • He completed this work while he was chief economist for Human Development at the World Bank. (who.int)
  • Dr. Ndongo Samba Sylla is a Senegalese development economist and has previously worked as a technical advisor at the Presidency of the Republic of Senegal, and as Programme manager at the West Africa office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. (lu.se)
  • Economists there are studying the economics of vaccine supply to understand the costs of vaccine development, production, and pricing. (cdc.gov)
  • It was a victory only for health economists. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
  • There used to be a time when health officials considered economists as "opponents", since they focused on funds allocated to health purposes as costs rather than an investment. (who.int)
  • Modern economics now teach us the value of investing wisely in health, demonstrating how this can create both human progress and more value to share, for all. (who.int)
  • During my PE Fellowship I learned how to integrate economics and public health to address important policy questions. (cdc.gov)
  • Learn how Nelly's work as a health economist in CDC's Center for Global Health helps stop the spread of diseases and improves the health of people around the world. (cdc.gov)
  • I would like to emphasize the uniqueness of the PE Fellowship training, compared with other postdoctoral training in health economics and health policy: (1) public health focused, (2) problem oriented and applied approach, (3) multi-disciplinary environment and collaboration. (cdc.gov)
  • But, almost without fail, they have a hard time successfully engaging with CDC's programs because they have, typically, never really worked with programs that have a focus on delivering products to state and local public health officials. (cdc.gov)
  • Thus, although non-CDC modelers and economists routinely analyze public health policy options, often the resulting analyses have not been very useful to public health officials. (cdc.gov)
  • All public health professionals need a basic understanding of economics (and particularly cost analysis and cost effectiveness analysis), decision science, and health impact assessment, but we also need a cadre of highly skilled professionals to do the rigorous technical work. (cdc.gov)
  • Though health warning and campaigns have played a part, economics is key. (who.int)
  • After spending eight years of her career consulting in access to financial services and financial inclusion, she pursued a PhD in economics with a focus on health systems on a full-time basis. (lu.se)
  • Some results already described in the literature were confirmed, as we found that individuals who were married, employed, more religious, in better health, with greater freedom/control over their lives and who had a better financial situation were more satisfied with life, regardless of the time period. (bvsalud.org)
  • Health economics has developed as a subdiscipline of economics and led to consideration of public health economics as its own field ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • In the book, Camic presents economist Veblen as a creature of the nineteenth century. (lse.ac.uk)
  • CAMBRIDGE - Ever since the late nineteenth century, when economics, increasingly embracing mathematics and statistics, developed scientific pretensions, its practitioners have been accused of a variety of sins. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Indeed, her particular skill set-combined with her years of experience at the Fund as Chief Economist-make her uniquely well qualified. (wikipedia.org)
  • I think we've seen over the last few years economists and indeed the elite, the technocrats, can be wrong in some pretty big areas," she said. (theguardian.com)
  • Van Walbeek has been working on the economics of tobacco control at UCT for 17 years. (who.int)
  • The time required for compulsory service varied by region, and physicians willing to accept postings in the most remote areas served fewer years. (who.int)
  • This helps Camic avoid the kind of intellectual history that would settle with Veblen simply inhaling the ideas that were 'in the air' at the time. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Through intellectual rigor and experiential learning, this full-time, two-year MBA program develops leaders who make a difference in the world. (mit.edu)
  • Economist Erik Wengström is among those who have studied Swedes' behaviour during the pandemic from the centre of events. (lu.se)
  • The pandemic has been an interesting time for researchers. (lu.se)
  • Richard Thaler, a distinguished behavioral economist at the University of Chicago, has taken the profession to task for ignoring real-world behavior in favor of models that assume people are rational optimizers. (project-syndicate.org)
  • The Bank of England's chief economist has admitted his profession is in crisis having failed to foresee the 2008 financial crash and having misjudged the impact of the Brexit vote. (theguardian.com)
  • Speaking at the Institute for Government in central London, Haldane said meteorological forecasting had improved markedly following that embarrassing mistake and that the economics profession could follow in its footsteps. (theguardian.com)
  • He also describes many of their eccentricities, including sex scandals not usually associated with a profession considered dull by those who have only met the run-of-the-mill economist. (mskousen.com)
  • Rather than proceed chronologically, Adam Smith will serve as an anchor in this search, followed by thoughts on wine economics from his antecedents, contemporaries and those who follow. (wine-economics.org)
  • This book is an ideal introduction to the subject for anybody who thinks they ought to understand what's happening around them but is put off by the usual dense text and economics jargon. (standupeconomist.com)
  • The problem is that economists tend to wrap economics in jargon and equations. (ubs.com)
  • I got hooked on the idea that economics was the physics of the social sciences, or physics for public policy," Donaldson says, "using theory and evidence to come up with answers to those policy questions that were being raised by the anti-globalization movement-and I wanted to learn how to do that. (imf.org)
  • The great majority of policy-oriented economists believe that increasing government spending in a depressed economy creates jobs, and that slashing it destroys jobs - but European leaders and U.S. Republicans decided to believe the handful of economists asserting the opposite. (salon.com)
  • Non-economists might see this as a policy by the Fed of easy money. (mercatus.org)
  • But in fact, policy was getting much tighter during that time. (mercatus.org)
  • In the two and half centuries since "Wealth of Nations," many others have made worthwhile contributions to economics, while not an insignificant number have been wrong but appealing, causing great misery. (mskousen.com)
  • Much of this work is done by Van Walbeek and colleagues at UCT's Economics of Tobacco Control Project (ETCP) in SALDRU in the School of Economics. (who.int)
  • Mats Benner has been the dean of Lund University School of Economics and Management since early 2021. (lu.se)
  • The following guidance provided herein is of a generic nature and derived from overarching principles of economics. (iastate.edu)
  • I have an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of London. (ubs.com)
  • In a debate with Stephanie Flanders, the former BBC economics editor, he cited an academic study to support his argument that expert economists were not good at making predictions. (theguardian.com)
  • Before 1776, there were no people who referred to themselves as economists, nor was there an academic field known as economics - even though now it is one of the most popular college majors. (mskousen.com)
  • As virtually all countries were affected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus at approximately the same time, governments were all fighting the virus, and their responses can be easily compared. (springer.com)
  • After completing his doctorate at LSE in 2009, Donaldson joined the economics department at MIT. (imf.org)
  • For the first time, cases were detected west of Melbourne in 1998, and the number occurring in that area is increasing (Victorian Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory and Department of Human Services, unpublished data, unpub. (cdc.gov)
  • Below is listed organisations, authorities, and companys, where previous students have found an employment after their studies at the Department of Economics (many students also continue with PhD studies in Lund, Sweden or elsewhere). (lu.se)
  • Camic focuses on Veblen's early formal education, inferring its content from the textbooks used at the time, which drilled into pupils moral lessons about work and productivity. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Neither orthodox nor heterodox economics satisfies the scientific criteria of material and formal consistency. (blogspot.com)
  • It should be noted that these analysts are taking a short-term view based on the technical supplies at the current time. (economicpolicyjournal.com)
  • At CDC, economics is used to systematically identify, measure, value, and compare the costs and consequences of alternative prevention strategies. (cdc.gov)
  • Bauman and Klein present solid basic economics in a brilliant cartoon wrapper. (standupeconomist.com)
  • In this time, I've learned that by applying some basic economics to my food choices, I can make nearly every meal count. (motherjones.com)
  • Indeed, instead of putting the lion's share of the blame on the shoulders of economics in general or famous, mostly right-wing economists in particular, Krugman says we would do best to look at our political leaders. (salon.com)
  • The chief economist is a member of the Senior Leadership of the IMF. (wikipedia.org)
  • I am the Chief Economist of UBS Global Wealth Management. (ubs.com)
  • As Chief Economist I sit on the Global Investment Committee. (ubs.com)
  • Putting a lawyer in charge of the Fed is roughly analogous to naming an economist to be chief justice of the Supreme Court. (mercatus.org)
  • New USAID chief economist Dean Karlan. (vox.com)
  • One of the agency's current leaders tasked with changing this status quo is its chief economist, Dean Karlan. (vox.com)
  • Fortunately, Mark Skousen has just published the 4th edition of his great book, "The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers. (mskousen.com)
  • Opinion is the realm of political economics, knowledge is the realm of theoretical economics. (blogspot.com)
  • Political economics is scientifically worthless. (blogspot.com)
  • The list, recently released by economists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, tracks toxic chemicals emitted into the air by top polluters and ranks the companies based on the toxicity of the pollution and other factors such as smokestack size, prevailing winds, and the number of people exposed to the pollution. (truthout.org)
  • The most sophisticated model of international capital flows ever developed has been produced by Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff and his colleagues. (independent.org)
  • I visited the University of Chicago, and the director of that MD-PhD program noticed that I had studied economics. (medscape.com)
  • 4.) Economists have a deeper respect for and understanding of the size and power of tests. (econlib.org)
  • Tellingly, since the 1950s, the Taiwanese economy shrank only three times , while the Venezuelan economy shrank 31 times - almost every second year. (lu.se)
  • Theoretical economics is built upon clearly stated premises, i.e., upon a set of axioms. (blogspot.com)