Micro Vs. Macro

The movement of sclerotic growth is the major economical policy query of our time. The 3 large explanations are 1) We ran out of ideas (Gordon); 2) Deficient "demand," remediable past times to a greater extent than financial stimulus (Summers, say) 3); Death past times a K cuts of cronyist rule together with legal economical interference.

On the latter, nosotros generally accept stories together with around estimates for private markets, non easy-to-use  government-provided statistics. But in that location are lots of stories.

Here is 1 day's Wall Street Journal reading piece waiting for a plane terminal Saturday:

1) Holman Jenkins,
... unbridled rent seeking.  That’s the term economists usage for exercising regime ability to create private gains for political purposes. 
Channelling Jefferson,
Mr. Obama’s depository financial establishment policy dramatically consolidated the banking industry, which the regime routinely sues for billions of dollars, with the proceeds partly distributed to Democratic activist groups. 
His consumer-finance means manufactured faux evidence of racism against wholesale auto lenders inward social club to facilitate a billion-dollar shakedown.
 His airline policy, urged past times labor unions, led to a major-carrier oligopoly, with rising fares together with profits. 
His FDA is seeking to extinguish modest e-cigarette makers for the exercise goodness of Big Tobacco together with Big Pharma (whose smoking-cessation franchise is threatened past times inexpensive together with relatively prophylactic electronic cigarettes). 
His National Labor Relations Board, past times undermining the ability of independent franchisees, is working to cartelize the fast-food manufacture for the exercise goodness of organized labor.
Summing up,
We could become on. Mr. Obama’s ain Council of Economic Advisers complains most the increasing cartelization of the U.S. of A. economy—as if this were non a natural output of regulation. In a much-noted Harvard Business Review piece this spring, James Bessen, an economist, lawyer together with software entrepreneur, cites increased “political rent seeking” to explicate the puzzle of rising corporate profits inward the absence of project creation together with economical growth.
The truth is, regime playing neutral arbiter over the private economic scheme doesn’t hit rents. H5N1 stable together with predictable regulatory arrangement produces alone mingy or non-existent rents.
2) Uber plane activity buffet
Federal jurist Edward Chen on Th rejected a $100 meg village inward a plane activity alleging that Uber misclassified drivers every bit independent contractors. That’s a large pot of cash, but the jurist says the ride-hailing companionship tin last raided for billions more....Judge Chen complained, however, that the village required plane members to driblet all employment-related claims (e.g., minimum wage, residuum together with repast breaks together with workers’ compensation) ...he village would accept pre-empted at to the lowest degree xv lawsuits for employment-related claims every bit good every bit cases “before diverse administrative bodies such every bit the NLRB.”...the village would accept scotched lawsuits brought nether California’s Private Attorneys General Act—known alongside businesses every bit the “bounty hunter law”—that lets private attorneys litigate labor, security together with wellness code violations on behalf of the state. California pays the lawyers’ fees together with keeps 75% of the bounty. The state’s Labor & Workforce Development Agency carped that the statutory penalties against Uber could overstep $1 billion.  
Uber brings flexible occupation to thousands, together with dramatically improve together with cheaper rides to consumers together with businesses. Whatever y'all mean value of contractors vs. employees, nada inward this improves productivity together with economical growth, or encourages the needed massive investment towards self-driving ubers.

3) You don't demand a dentist to create total a cavity Whether (cheaper, less licensed) dental therapists volition last allowed to supply basic services particularly inward wretched areas where in that location are no dentists.

4) How Obama’s FDA Keeps Generic Drugs Off the Market
 One of the biggest factors fueling the angst over drug prices inward the U.S. of A. is that around older medicines that should last sold cheaply every bit generics are soundless priced really high, oftentimes owing to a dwindling number of generic competitors ..in recent years the Food together with Drug Administration has imposed on generic firms many of the same costly requirements that the means applies to branded-drug makers.  
In 2003...we estimated that it cost less than $1 meg for a delineate of piece of work solid to file a generic-drug application. ...Today, filing a generic application requires an average of most $5 meg together with tin cost every bit much every bit $15 million.... 
For generics filed inward 2009, the median review fourth dimension exceeds 3 years. Yet generics launched inward 2015 took most 4 years for the FDA to approve, since less than 2% of applications were approved on their commencement submission.    
H5N1 novel FDA draft regulation...would forcefulness the generics to clutter their drug labels with defensive advisories to avoid “failure to warn” lawsuits. Legal fees stemming from the rule would add together over $5 billion to annual health-care costs, rising to $8.6 billion past times 2024, ...
And this is only 1 morning's reading of 1 paper's persuasion department piece sipping java at the airport. Even the New York Times is waking upward to the apres-Obama regulatory deluge.

As these stories construct clear, the job is non benevolent but ham-handed interventionism. The problem, much tougher, is best described every bit "cronyism." H5N1 veneer of world role stifles markets, to drive profits to connected parties inward render for political support.

Can nosotros actually screw upward every unmarried marketplace but larn into all upward with "demand?" The "ideas" together with "stimulus" approaches presume everything else inward the economic scheme is working only fine. Is investment actually ho-hum alone because in that location are, fundamentally, only no expert ideas to invest inward whatever more?

The deeper economical number is whether "macro" together with "growth" outcomes actually tin last separated from "micro" distortions inward each market.


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