Attention Economy


Monday, November 14, 2016

Economics of Populism

Saving Global Capitalism [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/saving-global-capitalism-from-populism-by-alexander-friedman-2016-11

Harvard economist Larry Summers notes:
“The late MIT economist Rudiger Dornbusch made an extensive study of the results of populist economic programs around the world, finding that while they sometimes had immediate positive results, over the medium- and long-term they were catastrophic for the working class in whose name they were launched. This could be the fate of the Trump program given its design errors, implausible assumptions and reckless disregard for global economics….Populist economics will play out differently in the United States than in emerging markets. But the results will be no better.”