Will they endlessly argue about the market and the state?
The question facing world leaders today is not what to do. It is whether to do it.
There are two goals to meet: full employment and sustainable energy. That’s technically complex. But the complexities are complexities of engineering, organization and politics. They are not complexities of economics or finance.
Mark Thoma asserts, “Congress ought to have the same urgency in dealing with unemployment as it had when banks were in trouble.”