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Krugman was President of the Eastern Economic Association in 2010, [11] and is among the most influential economists in the world. [12] He is known in academia for his work on international economics (including trade theory and international finance), [ 13 ] [ 14 ] economic geography, liquidity traps , and currency crises .
Progressive economics—also known as New Progressive Economics [6] —made a comeback in the United States to the forefront public discourse after the Great Recession of the late 2000s. Popular dissatisfaction with government policies favouring big business and the bailout of banks led to the emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
In 2016, he said he believes that the economic situation of the United States is critical: "As the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton showed in their study published in December 2015, life expectancy among middle-age white Americans is declining, as rates of suicides, drug use, and alcoholism increase. A year later, the National Center for ...
Mason Gaffney, an American economist and a major Georgist critic of neoclassical economics, argued that neoclassical economics was designed and promoted by landowners and their hired economists to divert attention from George's extremely popular philosophy that since land and resources are provided by nature, and their value is given by society ...
One of the most influential economists of the 20th century, [5] [6] [7] he produced writings that are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, and its various offshoots. [8] His ideas, reformulated as New Keynesianism, are fundamental to mainstream macroeconomics. He is known as the "father of macroeconomics". [9]
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Economists say that tariffs and tax cuts make Trump’s plan weaker than Harris’s. 23 Nobel Prize winners push for Kamala Harris, calling her a ‘better steward of our economy’ than Trump ...
But increasingly, mainstream as well as progressive economists are making the case that the prices just didn’t need to go up this much. Outside the U.S., corporations as well as governments have ...