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Olivier Blanchard

Combating Inequality

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  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    a high evidentiary threshold also restricts us to the margins of existing policies and
    small scale changes. We necessarily have good evidence only on policies that have been tried.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    Do we seek a gradual evolution of our policies or a more wholesale revolution? This is perhaps at least as much a question of temperament as of economics.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    Do we only pursue policies for which there is good evidence, or are we willing to be bolder and to experiment?
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    A Rawlsian perspective (advocated by both Scanlon and Van Parijs) would lead us to demand that any increase in inequality must improve the well-being of the worst off in society.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    what we want to do about inequality must start with answering the following questions: What is wrong with it?
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    Do we want to reduce inequality because its consequences are bad or because it is bad in itself?
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    We need a policy environment that directly targets the creation of good jobs.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    These are also the kinds of jobs that are most at risk with the spread of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, digitalization, and automation.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    The literature on the drivers of authoritarian populism makes it clear that the scarcity of good jobs and the economic anxieties that accompany it have played a substantial role in the rise of the Far Right.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    One of the themes that emerged from our conference is the importance of policies that tackle the middle of the income distribution—in particular, policies that support the expansion of middle-class, or “good,” jobs.
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