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SANTIAGO – La progression des hypervilles en tant que centres d’une forte création d’emplois constitue l’une des caractéristiques majeures de l’économie mondiale au XXIe siècle – une cara...
1975, BA (Hons), Yale University; 1980, PhD in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Former: Economist, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University; Counsellor and Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund; Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University. Member: National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science; Council on Foreign Relations; Group of Thirty. Former Guggenheim Fellow. Author on policy issues in international finance, including exchange rates, international debt issues and international monetary policy. Co-Author, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (2009), Author, The Curse of Cash (2016). Monthly columnist on global economic issues for Project Syndicate.
SANTIAGO – La progression des hypervilles en tant que centres d’une forte création d’emplois constitue l’une des caractéristiques majeures de l’économie mondiale au XXIe siècle – une cara...
CAMBRIDGE – Tourné en dérision par les climatosceptiques, et notamment par le président américain Donald Trump, le Green New Deal défendu par Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vise pourtant très j...
The financial crisis of 2008 may have started in the US banking sector but it went on to unleash the deepest global recession since the Great Depression.
“It ain’t what you know that gets you, but what you think you know for sure that just ain’t so,” as the old adage goes. Over the next two years, the biggest risks to the global economy li...
Most economic forecasts suggest that a recession in China will hurt everyone, but that the pain would be more regionally confined than would be the case for a deep recession in the United...
Most economic forecasters have largely shrugged off recent advances in artificial intelligence (for example, the quantum leap demonstrated by DeepMind’s self-learning chess program last D...
CAMBRIDGE – Au début des années 1990, l’aube de l’ère Internet semblait annoncer une explosion de la productivité dans l’enseignement supérieur. Cette explosion n’a pas eu lieu. Au lieu d...
A comienzos de los años 1990, en los albores de la era de Internet, una explosión en la productividad académica parecía estar a la vuelta de la esquina. Pero la esquina nunca apareció. Po...
After nine dreary years of downgrading their GDP forecasts, macroeconomic policymakers around the world are shaking their heads in disbelief: Despite a populist-propelled wave of politica...
In many ways, the Republican Party’s plan to implement a “border adjustment tax” in the United States is the virtual complement of the physical wall President Donald Trump plans to erect ...
Recently, the Australian government stirred up a great deal of controversy by announcing the formation of task force to study the role of cash in the underground or “black” economy. There...
After years of hibernation, will the US economy rouse itself for a big comeback over the next couple of years? With an incoming Republican administration hell-bent on reflating an economy...
Markets nowadays are fixated on how high the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in the next 12 months. This is dangerously shortsighted: the real concern ought to be how far it ...
Los mercados hoy en día están obsesionados con cuánto va a aumentar las tasas de interés la Reserva Federal de Estados Unidos en los próximos 12 meses. Esta es una visión peligrosamente c...
El mundo está inundado de papel moneda. Los bancos centrales de los principales países inyectan cada año cientos de miles de millones de dólares en efectivo, sobre todo en billetes de al...