{"id":1015,"date":"2019-05-24T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T06:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2019-05-24T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T06:27:00","slug":"economists-are-rethinking-fiscal-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2019\/05\/24\/economists-are-rethinking-fiscal-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists are rethinking fiscal policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Olivier Blanchard, a former chief economist of the IMF,  told the annual meeting of the American Economic Association that there  were many reasons to doubt the supposed costs of public debt. Since then  Jason Furman and Larry Summers of Harvard University, both of whom  advised Barack Obama on economics, have written in <em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>, a journal, that it is time to kill off the \u201cdebt obsession\u201d.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/finance-and-economics\/2019\/05\/18\/economists-are-rethinking-fiscal-policy?fsrc=scn\/tw\/te\/bl\/ed\/economistsarerethinkingfiscalpolicyconsolidationprogramme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Economist (opens in a new tab)\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivier Blanchard, a former chief economist of the IMF, told the annual meeting of the American Economic Association that there were many reasons to doubt the supposed costs of public debt. Since then Jason Furman and Larry Summers of Harvard University, both of whom advised Barack Obama on economics, have written in Foreign Affairs, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}