There is evidence from around the world that the liberty of women is under attack, including in proud democracies. Against this backdrop, the US Supreme Court’s elimination of the federal right to abortion is a particularly egregious offense against women.
notes that the Supreme Court’s elimination of the federal right to abortion accompanies rising gender violence.
Antara Haldar
highlights a potential institutional advantage of developing countries, shows how the hesitation to appeal to voters’ emotions is putting progressives at a disadvantage, and considers where the economics discipline is headed.
After a 9% decline in the second half of 2020, the broad dollar index – the real effective exchange rate as calculated by the Bank for International Settlements – has gone the other way, soaring by 12.3% from January 2021 through May 2022. And yet the deterioration of the US current-account balance has continued.
revisits his prediction in 2020 of a dollar crash and explains why he got it perfectly wrong.
发自斯坦福—通货膨胀的回归堪称对经济当头浇了一盆冷水。政府再也无法指望通过花钱来解决问题了。经济政策现在必须把注意力转向供应及其关联因素(经济效率)之上。
这是一个比货物交付延迟和过去一年价格急剧上涨更深层次的问题。从二战结束到2000年,美国实际(排除通胀因素后)人均GDP年均增长2.3%,从14171美元增长到44177美元(以2012年美元计)。美国人变得更健康长寿,减少了贫困,也向更清洁的环境和大量社会项目投入了诸多资金。但自2000年以来上述增长率下降了仅一半,年均只有1.4%。而加拿大和欧洲的情况更糟——自2010年以来许多欧洲国家的人均收入根本没有增长过。
没有什么比长期的经济增长对人类的繁荣更加重要。因此也没有任何经济趋势比增长下降一半更令人担忧,尤其是对那些财富较少者的福祉而言。
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