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Jason Furman on the Future of the World Economy

The Good Fight

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Yasha Monk speaks with Jason Furman, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Barack Obama. Yasha asks why America has managed to keep its share of global GDP constant even as other countries like Germany and Japan have seen a significant decline in their share of worldwide GDP. Why it is that economics is an empirical discipline in which your political leanings shouldn't influence what you predict is going to happen.

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