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Tag Archives: Economic Forecasting
New Horizons Beyond ING
My New Favourite Mug Leaving in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown is somehow fittingly strange and unexpected. My 22 years at ING, mostly as Chief Economist, marked an unforgettable period of shocks in economics, politics, technology, society and, … Continue reading
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Time for Macroeconomics to be Remastered
A decade on from the financial crisis, economists have still to learn three crucial sets of lessons. Continue reading
Posted in Economic Forecasting, Inequality, Macroeconomics, Politics, Sustainability, Technology
Tagged Economic Forecasting, Economics, Globalization, growth, Policy, Politics, Technology
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Forecasting is Fallible, But Necessary
In my first piece for Project Syndicate I build on my earlier post on the lessons for economic forecasters. The subtitle of their post prompted some questions about the usefulness of big data. There’s no doubt that economic forecasters can … Continue reading
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Confessions of an Economic Forecaster
Economists’ forecasts are notoriously inaccurate. This fallibility is hardly a great surprise given that we live in an irretrievably uncertain world. So why do we keep doing it? What can we learn? Here are my eighteen secrets and myths about the … Continue reading