Richard Samans

Sr Fellow, Geneva Grad Inst for Intl & Devel Studies; Nonres Sr Fellow, Brookings; Special Advisor, UN Economist Network. Fmr ILO Director and US White House

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Unanimous court decision should prompt a fundamental rethinking of the Administration's trade deficit strategy https://t.co/YSNWOWcLZ7

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the poster child for this phenomenon among advanced countries. Remedying such deficiencies often strengthens growth, too. Pursuit of such win-win opportunities on a systematic basis is the path beyond neoliberal, trickle-down economics https://t.co/cIfYLmnhEl #Economics

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The US Labor Day holiday is a reminder that just as an economy can have an output gap so it can have a significant social "welfare gap" defined as underperformance on one or more dimensions of household living standards relative to countries with similar GDP per capita. The US is

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Based on the first principles they laid down, I’ve published a new book, HUMAN-CENTRED ECONOMICS: THE LIVING STANDARDS OF NATIONS, that proposes a concrete alternative to the prevailing GDP-focused #neoliberal or “Washington Consensus” paradigm: https://t.co/hUElf6uofi
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Did you know that Adam Smith was a heterodox economist by modern standards? At a time when #AI , #climatechange and #inequality are posing major challenges to economies, his legacy and that of the two most influential 19th century pioneers of liberal political economy . . (1/3)

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J.S. Mill and Alfred Marshall, merit reconsideration. Their conception of growth and development—indeed their expectation of how what we today call #macroeconomics would develop—contrast starkly with contemporary pedagogy and policy practice. . . (2/3)