A meaningful trade agreement between the U.S. and China is unlikely as long as President Donald Trump fails to recognize China’s right to develop its economy, according to Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning Columbia University economist. While a face-saving deal could arise that allows Trump to claim a victory for
In the World Happiness Report, there's a chapter devoted to the fall in American happiness - economist Jeffrey D. Sachs suggest that there are three main variables behind it. "America's subjective well-being is being systematically undermined by three interrelated epidemic diseases, notably obesity, substance abuse (especially opioid addiction), and depression)."
The White House said Monday that Mr. Trump would nominate Columbia University economist Richard Clarida to become Fed vice chairman. Mr. Clarida, who worked at the Treasury under President George W. Bush, has quibbled with some Fed communications in recent years but generally has backed the Fed’s policies of slowly
Professor Vincent P. Crawford revisits Roger Myerson and Mark Satterthwaite’s (1983; “MS”) analysis of mechanism design for bilateral trading, replacing equilibrium with a non-equilibrium “level-k” model that predicts initial responses to games, and focusing on direct mechanisms.
Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz was a featured interviewee on Blooomberg TV where he spoke on trade tensions between the U.S. and China.
President Trump will nominate Richard Clarida, a Columbia University economist and former Treasury official in the George W. Bush administration, for the second-ranking job at the Federal Reserve, the White House said on Monday.
Economist Joseph Stiglitz was quoted in a piece for Xinhua News on how unilateral US tariffs against China undermine international trade.
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This year marks the 50th year anniversary of the publication of the Kerner Report, famous for declaring “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one white, one black, separate and unequal.” The anniversary of the Kerner Report presents an opportunity to call attention to the issues such as inequality of
