Free trade is not a short term policy tactic. If Canada and Europe engage in free trade it brings along economies of scale issues that America would have to address. It might, however, bring employment to low wage regions!
Economies of scale helps large firms by reducing the number of separate plants to produce a given product. Where would these fewer plants be located? Migration of production from China?
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/19/g8-summit-stephen-harper-says-free-trade-an-alternative-to-austerity-cutbacks/
Scratches to Sketches
Sunday 20 May 2012
The Most-Effective, Quickest Way To Create More U.S. Jobs - International Business Times
I am a Schumpeterian not a Keynesian economist, but what are the rest?
In economic policy, timing and scale is everything, but so is the design of the policy mix and a sound understanding of industrial demand dynamics and employment structure. Building houses, for example may produce growth, but it has just produced debt and inflation when demand -lomg term - was unsustainable and it produced an unsustainable economic dynamic. Income distribution towards building up average incomes without inflation is part of this benign design.
Krugman is absolutely right! But, why should this be a surprise? Too many crap economic policies have dulled the professions's understanding of the basics. Fortunately, Krugman is not among those that do not understand very simple economics. Perhaps, we need to take away a few economics PhD's from the others? Or, do they try to push median incomes into the ground and to create unemployment.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342853/20120518/krugman-fiscal-stimulus-paul-unemployment.htm
In economic policy, timing and scale is everything, but so is the design of the policy mix and a sound understanding of industrial demand dynamics and employment structure. Building houses, for example may produce growth, but it has just produced debt and inflation when demand -lomg term - was unsustainable and it produced an unsustainable economic dynamic. Income distribution towards building up average incomes without inflation is part of this benign design.
Krugman is absolutely right! But, why should this be a surprise? Too many crap economic policies have dulled the professions's understanding of the basics. Fortunately, Krugman is not among those that do not understand very simple economics. Perhaps, we need to take away a few economics PhD's from the others? Or, do they try to push median incomes into the ground and to create unemployment.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342853/20120518/krugman-fiscal-stimulus-paul-unemployment.htm
Krugman: Speaker Boehner, Paul Ryan ‘completely deluded’ - Video on msnbc.com
Over investment is still an issue and indices need to be developed to distinguish patterns of excessive growth that puts ecnomies off their more natural long term sustainable path. Dangerous maybe, but that is what capitalism is all about ... making obsolescence of junk produced because of low technical producivity.
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/47480484/
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/47480484/
Paul Krugman / Apocalypse fairly soon: If the euro blows up, the extremists will rise - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Spot on, but!
It must never happen! The cost is far too great. Better to have more regulation of activity in the world economy and efforts to understand basic economics that policy makers seem to have forgotten or worse, never learned!
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/paul-krugman-apocalypse-fairly-soon-if-the-euro-blows-up-the-extremists-will-rise-636579/
It must never happen! The cost is far too great. Better to have more regulation of activity in the world economy and efforts to understand basic economics that policy makers seem to have forgotten or worse, never learned!
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/paul-krugman-apocalypse-fairly-soon-if-the-euro-blows-up-the-extremists-will-rise-636579/
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