Archive for December 2017
Trump’s tax cut – short term gain, long term pain for the US economy
To assess the impact of the Trump tax cut on the US economy it is necessary to analyse the interrelation of two processes: The determinants of US economic growth in the medium/long term, The short-term position of the US economy in the current business cycle Analysing these factors, the impact of the Trump tax…
Read MoreThe West’s ‘new mediocre’ and the rise of China’s economics
In a recent article ’The Arrival of the Century of Chinese Economics’ Justin Yifu Lin argued that the centre of world theoretical economics would pass to China: ‘I also made a prediction… in the 21st century it is quite possible that many master economists will emerge through the study of China’s economy…. ‘The importance of…
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