Progressing Beyond GDP: Towards a Multidimensional Livings Standards Index and Integrated Headline Measure of Gross National Sustainable Development – Richard Samans How best to supplant or “dethrone” GDP alone as the paramount measure of national economic performance and international development standing? A new paper by a

Progressing Beyond GDP: Towards a Multidimensional Living Standards Index (MLSI). How best to “dethrone” GDP alone as the paramount measure of national economic performance? New paper by UN economists relevant to #affordability, #AI, #climate, #degrowth debates: richardsamans.net/blog-post/pr...

Rebalancing the world economy: Right idea but wrong approach Richard Samans on why tariffs won’t fix global imbalances and why Europe may be best positioned to lead a bold G3 solution with the U.S. and China.

As anticipated, a US court unanimously voided the "reciprocal" #tariffs. The Admin now must work with Congress, as it should have already. Better yet, use its #trade leverage to compel talks on the real driver of global imbalances--the misaligned #macroeconomic policies of China, Europe and US:

Rebalancing the world economy: Right idea but wrong approach Richard Samans on why tariffs won’t fix global imbalances and why Europe may be best positioned to lead a bold G3 solution with the U.S. and China.

Charting a course out of the #trade crisis -- longform essay of mine published today by @brookings.edu that proposes a more effective and less risky way to rebalance the #worldeconomy by directly addressing the fundamental drivers of big imbalances:
www.brookings.edu/articles/reb...

International tax policy specialists are likely next in line: bsky.app/profile/rsam...

Lutnick: Tariffs on nearly all products from Mexico and Canada will likely get delayed | CNN Business Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday that President Donald Trump will likely announce later in the day a one-month tariff delay on all products that are covered by the USMCA free trade trea...

Has anyone considered the possibility that the plan is to exhaust all the trade policy wonks into submission? www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/e...

Next, a global tax war? The Trump Admin. is preparing four major int'l. tax battles likely to pour fuel on the fire of its escalating tariff wars. Is the nuclear doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) madly about to be applied to the world economy? Blog: richardsamans.net/blog-post/ne...

Might there be a method to the Trump trade policy madness? – Richard Samans A charitable interpretation of the Administration's shocking trade announcements has been making the rounds speculating that they are mere tactics in a larger s

I reposted your excellent piece in my blog last week and built upon it in a new one yesterday: richardsamans.net/blog-post/mi...

Might there be a method to the Trump trade policy madness? – Richard Samans A charitable interpretation of the Administration's shocking trade announcements has been making the rounds speculating that they are mere tactics in a larger s

Might there be method to the Trump trade policy madness? A charitable interpretation has been making the rounds speculating that the tariffs are mere tactics in a bigger play for global #macroeconomic rebalancing and int'l. #trade and #monetary system reform. Blog: richardsamans.net/blog-post/mi...

Trump’s Meat Ax Trade Initiative Addresses a Serious Issue but . . . – Richard Samans Taken at face value, the announced approach is unconstitutional and administratively unworkable --- in addition to running the risk of huge collateral damage at

Pres. Trump's reciprocal trade initiative addresses a serious issue, but taken at face value it is unconstitutional and administratively unworkable, while risking huge collateral damage at home and abroad. He needs to work with and seek approval of Congress. Blog:
richardsamans.net/blog-post/tr...