Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor of Economics Emeritus and a former dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Senior Advisor to General Atlantic, and Chairman of the firm’s Global Growth Institute. He serves on the Academic Committee at Luohan Academy, and chairs the Advisory Board of the Asia Global Institute. He was chairman of the independent Commission on Growth and Development, an international body that from 2006-10 analyzed opportunities for global economic growth, and is the author of The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World (Macmillan Publishers, 2012).
米兰—政府无法采取决定性的措施解决经济的增长、就业和分配问题已经成为各国的主要问题。特别是美国,政治两极分化、国会僵局和不负责任的哗众取宠获得了大量的关注,许多人担心由此造成的经济后果。
但是,一份最新分析表明,一国在某些方面的相对经济表现与其政府的“功能性”基本无关。事实上,自全球金融危机爆发六年来,美国在增长、失业、生产率和单位劳动成本方面的表现都胜过其他发达国家,尽管其国内存在创纪录的政治两极分化程度。
当然,你不能做过多的引申。德国、加拿大和日本的失业率更低。美国的收入分配也比大部分发达国家更不公平,并且发展趋势也十分不利。此外,从整体相对经济表现看,美国显然没有为政治功能失调付出沉重代价。
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