…advertising, sales, marketing, distribution, packaging, healthcare, infrastructure projects and even construction. The demand that these industries encounter for their products and services determines capacity utilization in industrial production. Capacity utilization…

…without any compensating gain in wages. Examined this way, consumers and firms have a shared preference for laws, regulations, and an institutional infrastructure that promote lower labor cost (Freeman 1996).”…

…Firms have high profits, developed infrastructure, and access to capital. Consumers have low labor share of income and higher than normal unemployment. Total labor income is barely back to where…

…enormously rich country. We could work miracles of ending poverty, repairing infrastructure, funding basic research, and creating educational opportunity if only we had the will to do so. And doing…

…in detrimental and even dangerous infrastructure and programmatic expenditure delays are put into play. People suffer–especially older Americans on Social Security, sick Americans depending on Medicare, and young Americans dependent…

…which suggests state and local government spending actually affects economic growth. Infrastructure matters. That might also indicate that states and local governments might have an incentive to increase their spending…

…have to rise or its savings would have to fall (or both).” “Both occurred. Spain increased investment in infrastructure and in real estate, but it seems to have done both…

…anyway are what should really matter. Rather than continue to increase investment in manufacturing capacity, infrastructure, and real estate, Beijing should find ways to curtail investment growth sharply and to…

…one. If public capital (infrastructure say or subsidized human capital) is a complement for private capital the multiplier can be large. Both results hold even if optimal government spending is…

…advanced high-tech “cloud” infrastructure. … The Post is unquestionably the political paper of record in the United States, and how it covers governance sets the agenda for the balance of…