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Its interesting how his attitude as stated at the bottom of the piece is that they (the economists) were 'right'.

Edit: Some economists have argued that past raises in min wage have not made noticeable impacts in employment.

Trying to control prices directly has a track record of backfiring horribly, for reasons which are well understood by economists and uncontroversial.

A lot of economists and market participants believe that these measure not only fail to mitigate falling asset prices but make them worse.

Back before WWI started, there were many economists that said war between modern countries was basically impossible due to all the economic trade.

I don't understand how conservative economists who have been constantly predicting runaway inflation since 2008 have any credibility remaining.

Where are these all-knowing economists and why aren't they running NYC already?

My (admittedly limited) understanding is that most economists are still expecting significant growth in China this year, though not as strong as previous years.

I don't see any fundamental difference between what your call simulation and what economists call models.

The same things that make that true, also make things that had widely differing purchase prices provide equal value (what economists call utility) to someone.

That's because economists know how growth is measured, and know you can have growth and reduce resource use and energy usage at the same time.

Because China’s underground economy is far bigger than the 10% to 20% of the total economy that most economists estimate when they do their calculations.

To elaborate a bit on this, the term economists like to use for this is "alternative choices".

"Modern Portfolio Theory, Efficient Market Theory, and Capital Asset Pricing Model espoused by the world's leading financial economists" is also a fantastic lie.

In short, the negative positional externality is often compensated by the public goods of infant industry effects and research and development." The negative externality view of positional goods seems to be a minority opinion among economists.

"Qualified economists could determine the budget"?