{"id":4872,"date":"2012-12-16T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T08:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2012-12-19T01:58:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T23:58:06","slug":"the-hysterical-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/the-hysterical-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The hysterical economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kotlikoff, Laurence.<\/p>\n<p>A \u2018self-fulfilling recession\u2019 is a long-established idea in economics. This column argues that the US\u2019s economic malaise continues to be caused by leaders\u2019 hysteria rather than by actual engrained economic problems. Obama and Congress need to stop scaring the nation about the \u2018fiscal cliff\u2019 because, ultimately, they are coordinating expectations on there being a recession. Tackling the right policies now, and sending out the right message, will help more than hysteria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: <\/strong>Voxeu<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/article\/hysterical-economy\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kotlikoff, Laurence. A \u2018self-fulfilling recession\u2019 is a long-established idea in economics. This column argues that the US\u2019s economic malaise continues to be caused by leaders\u2019 hysteria rather than by actual engrained economic problems. Obama and Congress need to stop scaring the nation about the \u2018fiscal cliff\u2019 because, ultimately, they are coordinating expectations on there being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39,4],"tags":[28,25],"class_list":["post-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-39","category-proposals","tag-28","tag-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4907,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}