The Rise and Fall of American Growth
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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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This is ripe for a collapse of the American Empire. Defunding of Education and transferring manufacturing to the Third World. Transferring our society to a Medieval Society.
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@LSE You guys have to start showing the Slides as they are indispensable visual aids that clarify what the lecturer is discussing.
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This is a book that is RIPE to be made a documentary of..
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American growth has declined because many if not all our manufacturing jobs have been outsourced to China and India etc. This has been brought about by greedy Jews who think only about their own selfish desires and care nothing about the host nation population of which they are a virulent parasite and profiteer.
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This speaker wants to be in a denial mode and wants even others to be in a denial mode. He is not a technologist. He is an economist.
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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.
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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?
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very enjoyable talk. very informative. stimulates many questions.
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Next time can you please show the graphs as well?
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