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    the barry does not fall far from the shrub..., 2011-01-25 14:16:56 | Main | no good idea goes without turning a profit..., 2011-01-31 11:28:07

    obamanomics:

    James Galbraith responded to Obama's state of the union speech with some alacrity 15 years ago:

    New Keynesian acceptance of the New Classical theoretical structure reduces macroeconomic policy to the fringe role, that of large-scale intervention only in deep and lasting recessions. In all other circumstances, the macro authorities are warned off--as was Clinton himself during his brief Keynesian phase in early 1993.

    What then can liberals do? The actual approach of the Clinton administration illustrates: Liberals can favor education, training, adjustment assistance, and other programs that upgrade skills and help workers move from one job to the next. They can support public investments in infrastructure, on the ground that these assist in the international competitiveness of the economy. They can support a combination of research and development assistance to advanced enterprises, alongside efforts to open foreign markets to American products, that help shore up the position of American companies in the world. ...

    All of these are supply-side measures... Their purpose is to improve the long-term competitive performance of the American economy, on the thought that a more productive economy will generate higher average living standards. The further thought, that these higher averages will trickle down to low-paid production workers, is left as an assumption.

    ...

    We are left with the unpleasant conclusion that the liberal mainstream has fallen into a self-deluding trap. The right has taken over the commanding heights of both fiscal and monetary policy, leaving liberals with token sums to spend on supply-side interventions.

    Minus the "large-scale intervention only in deep and lasting recessions" part, anyway, Obama never had one of those. via.


:: posted by buermann @ 2011-01-27 14:39:16 CST | link





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