The Rise and Fall of American Growth

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8 жыл бұрын

Date: Wednesday 11 May 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Robert J Gordon
Chair: Professor Wouter Den Haan
Professor Gordon will examine the history of economic growth in the USA, and explore solutions needed to overcome the economic challenges of the future.
Robert J Gordon is the Stanley G Harris Professor in the Social Sciences at Northwestern University and author of The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2014 he was elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in recognition of a long career of outstanding contributions to scholarship, teaching, public service, and the economics profession. For more than three decades, he has been a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Business Cycle Dating Committee, which determines the start and end dates for recessions in the United States.
Wouter Den Haan is Professor of Economics at LSE and Co-Director of the Centre for Macroeconomics.
The Department of Economics at LSE (@LSEEcon) is one of the largest economics departments in the world. Its size ensures that all areas of economics are strongly represented in both research and teaching.
The Centre For Macroeconomics (@CFMUK) brings together world-class experts to carry out pioneering research on the global economic crisis and to help design policies that alleviate it.

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@marcv2648 3 жыл бұрын

The most amazing thing about this topic and presentation is that I can't get a single person who I know to have slightest bit of interest in it. Nevermind even watching a shorter version of this.

@garretttedeman 8 жыл бұрын

Very solid presentation. Just a bit of a better camera angle to get the charts would be nice, but still you can follow almost everything.

@zacharyburell1747 7 жыл бұрын

@LSE You guys have to start showing the Slides as they are indispensable visual aids that clarify what the lecturer is discussing.

@jnbalmer448 8 жыл бұрын

Next time can you please show the graphs as well?

@nonchalantd 7 жыл бұрын

seriously

@marsmotion 8 жыл бұрын

very enjoyable talk. very informative. stimulates many questions.

@only_oneone1751 6 жыл бұрын

come here for econ course watching

@nbme-answers 4 жыл бұрын

2:50 start

@theturkanabus3610 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@nbme-answers 4 жыл бұрын

1:04:04 financial advisors

@calorus 6 жыл бұрын

Cut the corporate income tax... Keep an eye out for the reactions of Ireland and Luxembourg.

@doctordilanka 7 жыл бұрын

This is a book that is RIPE to be made a documentary of..

@rotkod39 8 жыл бұрын

The apparent enthusiasm for robots and automation seems at odds with any concern for social welfare- is employing people in low skilled jobs like truck driving and supermarket checkouts not a good thing for society, regardless of its impact on (statistical) productivity? Or have I missed his point?

@austincarter5691 8 жыл бұрын

Yes and we should use spoons to dig canals.

@Random-om8rq Жыл бұрын

more that he's shitting on the techno optimists that have done nothing for the past 20 years but do resource extraction for their stupid tech products.

@carlosorellana5154 4 жыл бұрын

Your visual technology should have a steep downward tendency.

@blackricejam8984 6 жыл бұрын

Who is here for Brandt?

@IAMreynofficial 6 жыл бұрын

Well, there is an INTJ if ever I've seen one.

@sirjames45 2 жыл бұрын

He mentions federal debt, at 44 minutes, but he does not elaborate on it.

@FINSuojeluskunta 2 жыл бұрын

Good presentation but disagree with his policy viewpoints. How do these people not link the fact that American education is enormously expensive with the fact that American test scores and educational attainment are poor. The answer is also not to flood in immigrants because America refuses to help it's youth. It's to help the youth.

@MSimky 7 жыл бұрын

His claims about U.S. higher education are not supported by the data. After you control for race, sex, and institution type, people are completing their degrees faster, and the market is valuing their degrees more highly (higher earnings premium). He also doesn't understand legal technology. Computers have been assisting with searches of legal cases since the 1960s. The recent developments aren't all that much more impressive. And lawyers have some of the lowest unemployment rates around, after controls for age and year. Radiologists are doing well too, contrary to the popular economics you'll read about in the newspapers. With these sweeping, conventional, and incorrect claims, I suspect that he's getting a lot of other details wrong.

@sirjames45 2 жыл бұрын

Okay, I made it 20 minutes in....Does this guy ever mention socialist enacting socialist programs and high taxation and regulation smothering and preventing American growth???

@subcitizen2012 10 ай бұрын

For posterity, higher taxes forces higher rates of capital investment to avoid those taxes, thus stimulating more growth and higher wages, and raising the net tax revenues so that everything is paid for, including the nstiibal debt being paid down. Just look at the corporate and personal income tax rates over the course of the century, then go write your book aboit why you were wrong. Regulations, you need regulations, otherwise there's sewage in your private drinking water and there's no one for you to sue about it. The tax regime implemented in the 30s was one of the essences of the "socialist" progressive era. FDR is credited with saving capitalism. If you want to be a capitalist you have to be socialist, thet way you are investing in domestic productivity and wellbeing, vs investing in foreign communism like our capitalists hsve been doing with China for 3 decades. You can either have a burgeoning middle class with balanced bugets and everythi paid for, or a hyper rich class with burgeoning bank accounts and public debt, but you can't have both. Tax the rich like they used to and we can get back some of that old economic glory, and get the homeless off the streets. Become a progressive socialist today!