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Paul Romer and William Nordhaus win the economics Nobel
Both have studied the causes and consequences of growth
Paul Romer and William Nordhaus win the economics Nobel
WHY do economies grow, and why might growth outstrip the natural world’s capacity to sustain it? There are few more important questions in economics. The answers require a working grasp of the mechanisms underlying growth. For the progress that the profession has made towards that understanding, it owes a particular debt to Paul Romer and […]
The Nobel prize for economics is awarded for work on the climate and economic growth
Paul Romer and William Nordhaus share the glory
Economics renames itself to appeal to international students
ECONOMISTS do not much like their discipline being dubbed the dismal science. Some American universities are paying more attention to the noun than to the adjective. The reason is not philosophical, but pragmatic. Foreign STEM graduates (the acronym stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics) can get visa extensions for three years of practical training […]
Men and women in economics have different opinions
MEN may hail from Mars and women from Venus. But economists, surely, inhabit planet Earth, surveying it dispassionately. Alas, a new paper suggests that even dismal scientists divide on gender lines. Ann Mari May and Mary McGarvey of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and David Kucera of the International Labour Organisation surveyed economists from 18 European […]
Men and women in economics have different opinions
MEN may hail from Mars and women from Venus. But economists, surely, inhabit planet Earth, surveying it dispassionately. Alas, a new paper suggests that even dismal scientists divide on gender lines. Ann Mari May and Mary McGarvey of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and David Kucera of the International Labour Organisation surveyed economists from 18 European […]
The Long Game of Republican Economics
Here is a brief modern history of Republican attitudes toward the deficit. For eight years under an Obama presidency, Republicans foretold of a debt apocalypse and urged lawmakers to slash deficits by trillions of dollars. Under Trump, both GOP-controlled houses passed a corporate tax bill that economists predict will grow deficits by at least $ […]
‘The Martian’ author Andy Weir solved moon economics to make his new book ‘Artemis’ believable
Samantha Lee/Business Insider “The Martian” author Andy Weir has a new novel about a heist on the moon called “Artemis.” The book, which goes on sale Tuesday, strives for a high level of scientific and economic realism to make its story believable. The author used real-world economics to create a reason his fictional moon colony […]
The GOP tax plan isn’t even a good try at trickle-down economics
Thomson Reuters Top economic adviser Gary Cohn says the GOP tax plan going to have “trickle-down” benefits to middle-class Americans. But even if you were trying to design a trickle-down plan, this one fails. “The most excited group out there are big CEOs, about our tax plan,” says ex-Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn, who runs […]
