The only thing he sincerely believes in, aside from rank bigotry, is a deeply zero sum vision of macroeconomics.
Tl;dr: We do this in 🇺🇸 all the time, too. It's all about folks' political preferences about debt/deficits, not about actual serious macroeconomics. Let's debate the tradeoffs, but let's also be more serious about not framing these issues around the LOOMING DEBT CRISIS assumption & narrative.
ifo Dresden Workshop on Macroeconomics and International Finance 2025 http://dlvr.it/TFMGJg #EconSky
Unconnected to the news, I’m reading the Acemoglu paper on the macroeconomics of AI. Can anyone understand the justification for the highlighted section here? economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...
I am a huge fan of Acemoglu's work on directed technological change and network-based approaches to macroeconomics
Not sure what that is supposed to mean. I am still a macro guy but the direction of my career is a bit towards more micro. Then again, I think microeconomics is just a subdiscipline of macroeconomics ;)
Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Severe Weather and the Macroeconomy" by Hee Soo Kim, Christian Matthes, and Toàn Phan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
(Forthcoming Article) - We investigate the impact of severe weather shocks on the US macroeconomy over the past sixty years. Using a nonlinear vector autoregressive model, we find robust evidence of t...
I feel like no one gets how macroeconomics works sometimes.
Macroeconomics, but holding the book upside down.
New from me: Harris’ latest economic policy really clarified something for me about her and Trump’s pitches to voters www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
