Nobel prize-winning economist Esther Duflo: 'You have no reason to fear low-skilled migration'

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  • Esther Duflo won 2019's Nobel prize for economics with her partner Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
    Together they've written a new book called 'Good Economics for Hard Times' which seeks to answer some of the world's biggest social and political questions. A resident professor at MIT, Esther talks to Krishnan about what it's like to win the prize, why low-skilled migration is not an economic threat and why she pushes evidence not ideology.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 246

  • @guruvasa
    @guruvasa 4 роки тому +76

    She's certainly one of the few who conscientiously chose her study and research to benefit humanity. Kudos to Esther Duflo!!

  • @Anon-xd3cf
    @Anon-xd3cf 4 роки тому +40

    That sounds like really well thought out, well researched expert advice.
    UK government would fire her.

  • @barbaramajoy5278
    @barbaramajoy5278 4 роки тому +9

    I admire Esther and her partner's work and this interview has given me much food for thought. Relying on proven facts is what we need and often assume our leaders are doing. It is clear they are not. I thank you for your work and am anxious to learn more. I so needed to hear something like this with all that is going on in the White House and what I am hearing from people who believe what they are being told. Esther and her work gave me a ray of hope for the future for my granddaughter. I want to learn more myself as well. Thank you and congratulations on winning the Nobel Prize. It is well deserved.

  • @Google_Does_Evil_Now
    @Google_Does_Evil_Now 4 роки тому +22

    This is excellent. Thank you Esther, Krishnan and all at Channel 4 News who give us long form, long answer, intelligent depth on topics.
    I've never been interested in economics before this interview.
    She's inspiring in her effective simple way of explaining how good proven economics can make our lives better and we can test if our feelings and fears are justified.
    Is there an economic policy group in the UK that we can join to help make positive change?

  • @wenkaiyang1487
    @wenkaiyang1487 Рік тому +3

    She opened up another new branch of economics, development economics. Previously it was just a niche field of study but now it gets more and more popular. I really like topics that her research covers

  • @toospooky5929
    @toospooky5929 4 роки тому +30

    The problem with so much information in the world means I can pick and choose specific statistics to support whatever narrative I want as long as you don't look into it too hard.

  • @sumansarkar7218
    @sumansarkar7218 4 роки тому +8

    I am really delighted in my lifetime I came across to professor Abhijit and Professor Duflo, The RCT is the way to solve many problems in our society. Great conversations and knowledge. World to get more.

  • @McBenji07
    @McBenji07 4 роки тому +17

    The interviewer was excellent!

    • @robertmech3069
      @robertmech3069 4 роки тому +3

      It's one of his better appearances, certainly a big improvement over his Robert Downey Jr interview for promoting one of the Iron Man movies a few years ago

  • @mmovies5139
    @mmovies5139 2 роки тому +1

    Absolutely fascinating to lister to her! Thank you for this interview

  • @zhanghu5201
    @zhanghu5201 4 роки тому +4

    I like the way she talked about China. She is really an economist who respects the facts. Not just talk about the big things.

  • @marinoseys2908
    @marinoseys2908 4 роки тому +18

    Cute accent, no political color, smart... and is French-American. Can you imagine doing that kind of study on both sides of the ocean, living in different politics and cultural values? She’s a great person and sounds honest, at least she try to look to the bigger picture.

    • @jameswhiteley6843
      @jameswhiteley6843 4 роки тому +2

      What's the bigger picture? Massive wealth innequality, more crime, more terrorism?

    • @AnotherWierdThing
      @AnotherWierdThing 4 роки тому +1

      no political colour? she clearly has a political agenda, she even mentions that she considers herself an activist.

    • @merrickx
      @merrickx 4 роки тому

      She sounds entirely dishonest. You can just look at the racial and wage statistics in the construction sector. Even before adjusting for inflation, wages are less today than they were 40 years ago.
      40 years

    • @epain
      @epain 4 роки тому

      @dil oreo that's a bit much. wealth inequality is growing (in the US at least), nothing paranoid about stating that. look around you, there are more homeless and high-rises than ever before.

    • @HS-fm9kv
      @HS-fm9kv 4 роки тому

      Shekelberg Kvetchestein thé reason is two fold- policy and developers racing to the bottom!
      Go and work on major civil engineering projects (Heathrow, Crossrail or HS2) and you’ll see the opposite!

  • @satyasyasatyasya5746
    @satyasyasatyasya5746 4 роки тому +21

    Never heard of her, but was an interesting interview :) Always worth just sitting down and listening to people.

    • @109joiner
      @109joiner 4 роки тому +2

      Corbyn therapist well we’re listening to you.

  • @nthperson
    @nthperson Рік тому

    The sincerity of Professor Duflo is made clear in this interview. And yet, based on what she said here and my admittedly incomplete review of her published work, I believe she shares with most other economists an analytical blindness to the most serious cause of poverty throughout history: the concentrated control over land and other natural assets and the privatization of rents that accompanies such monopolization.
    Nature has a zero cost of production, yet everywhere around the globe both the leasing cost or purchasing cost of acquiring access to nature climbs and climbs. The reason for this is explained by basic economics.
    Every parcel or tract of land or other natural asset (e.g., frequencies on the broadcast spectrum) has a potential annual rental value. This value is determined by a combination of natural and societally-created advantages and not by what any individual does or does not do. Thus, the value rightfully belongs not to any individual or private entity but to the community or society. Historically, these values have been lightly taxed or taxed not at all. Thus, the rental income stream is capitalized by market forces into a selling price. And, because of the low effective rate of taxation on rents, natural assets are hoarded and kept idle for years, decades or even longer. This lowers the supply available for development, driving up prices higher and higher as population increases. The potential to profit by speculating in natural assets means that the supply curve for nature is leftward leaning. The price mechanism of neoclassical economics does not apply to nature under existing taxation.
    Solving the problem of poverty requires that land markets be tamed. And, the only means of taming land markets is for society to collect locational rental values.
    Edward J. Dodson
    School of Cooperative Individualism
    www.cooperative-individualism.org

  • @sepehrdaghbandan7964
    @sepehrdaghbandan7964 4 роки тому +2

    Fantastic.

  • @zacharydavis4398
    @zacharydavis4398 Рік тому

    0:00 - 3:24 - 3:37 - 3:55 … Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content

  • @chriswatson1698
    @chriswatson1698 4 роки тому +5

    If nobody wants the job, it is because the remuneration and conditions are inadequate. Migrants ensure that employers never have to offer better wages and conditions.

    • @ddwkim9779
      @ddwkim9779 4 роки тому

      Chris Watson migrants exchange any job info within their own communities, so the owners can stick with the same job offer since “who knows since when”

  • @indoraakuria
    @indoraakuria 2 роки тому

    I late to realize her huge works in poverty. But great thanks for her Phd dissertation in my country that encourage me to join in this endeavor.

  • @Dave183
    @Dave183 4 роки тому +4

    I worked, as a field worker alongside migrant workers. There was talk of bringing the local staff into middle management. But in my case this did not happen. I was told- do not report an injury- because there is someone waiting at the gate- who is not injured. And this was typical. Migrant workers put pressure on local housing stocks- and forced the cost of rentals to record high levels.

    • @chriswatson1698
      @chriswatson1698 4 роки тому +2

      Migrants push up rentals. And economists are the landlords who profit from the higher rents.

  • @MidnightMatta
    @MidnightMatta 4 роки тому

    Loved this

  • @mesayufayesa2992
    @mesayufayesa2992 2 роки тому

    GOD bless you and long live with solution and contribution for this world

  • @jeromevuarand3768
    @jeromevuarand3768 4 роки тому +54

    It's refreshing to listen to someone who really knows what they're talking about, and still ready to admit when things can be unpredictable. What's depressing is all the reactionary comments below the video. It's amazing how people can be presented with facts, a consensus of experts, and they still repeat their xenophobic bullshit.

    • @AnotherWierdThing
      @AnotherWierdThing 4 роки тому +6

      you realise 'scientific consensus' is a completely stupid phrase to continue to trot out

    • @jeromevuarand3768
      @jeromevuarand3768 4 роки тому +1

      @@AnotherWierdThing No I don't realize. What's wrong with it?

    • @AnotherWierdThing
      @AnotherWierdThing 4 роки тому +3

      @@jeromevuarand3768 scientific consensus is a bullshit term. scientific concuss =/= truth, look at how 'concuss' in various disciplines has shifted drastically over time.

    • @FactCheckerGuy
      @FactCheckerGuy 4 роки тому +6

      I am a PhD economist and I can tell you with great certainty that the claims she makes with great certainty about a consensus among economists are simply untrue. I have no idea why she claims that there is some consensus that labor supply has no effect on wages or that tax policy has no effective on behavior. While there are some economists who would agree with her, there are a great many who would strongly disagree.

    • @jeromevuarand3768
      @jeromevuarand3768 4 роки тому +4

      @@FactCheckerGuy When we have to balance the certainty of a PhD with the certainty of a Nobel laureate, I'm sure you can understand which way we'll go. Especially when a PhD can be bought for a few hundred quids (a friend of mine did out of pure vanity).

  • @jodalinkus5538
    @jodalinkus5538 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing transition from interest in charity work to the dismal science of problem solving. Being French she is bound to be a left leaning economist who supports Keynesian precept of demand management.

  • @jeffshen6423
    @jeffshen6423 2 роки тому

    Makes perfect sense. Unfortunately emotion tumps empirical evidence.

  • @bobkippuz
    @bobkippuz 4 роки тому +5

    Corey Feldman is strange

  • @suindude8149
    @suindude8149 3 місяці тому

    Economics is actually a social science by becoming an ardent practitioner of Economics combined with social science it really seems these days the Dan Kahnemans all time famous I think the term predictably irrational,the irrationality of my mind is mainly caused by the microcredit beholders to me regarding more and more expectation of taking loan,but the positive point is they can really obscure out my portion of loan by suitable action now and on,it's on the verge of closure now,an end to all time the more days problem providing me the better way.

  • @PamperedChild2024
    @PamperedChild2024 3 місяці тому

    TRUST ME TODAY , BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, I DON'T TALK WITHOUT RESEARCHING WELL: ALL ISSUES TODAY ARISE FROM TREMENDOUS LACK OF DISCIPLINE AND SELF-CONTROL

  • @retwerts
    @retwerts 2 роки тому +1

    Ahh, all those parameters improved even in "poor countries" because of technological advancement, this has nothing to do with policy? In fact the fact that those improved in countries without growing of GDP is evidence of that - it improved based on implementing better procedures and medicine in the case of mortality and more efficient production of main goods in the case of extreme poverty.

  • @catherineto
    @catherineto 2 роки тому

    Can Esther start studying a way for people to select their politicians so that the persons in power are benefiting the world and possess conscient to the rest of the world. The politicians seem to forget to balance the needs of people in the rest of the world somehow. Better use of resources is the way to help the survival of other countries. For instance, the grocery stores in North American (Canada and USA) are very rich and I always wonder what happens to the unsold perishable goods ? Can we create a system to deliver the perishable goods to the less unfortunate at no cost or with tax benefits to the corporations if they contribute ?

  • @arunavadasgupta2147
    @arunavadasgupta2147 Рік тому

    How
    Static
    Is
    Help
    Economy
    And
    Econometrics
    World
    Wide

    • @suindude8149
      @suindude8149 3 місяці тому

      Causally Static portion of Economy is sometimes a law of nature to play with a moving object.A float is always necessary to grow,while floating just focussing on the scenario of Economy would be a great way of learning something.

  • @arunavadasgupta2147
    @arunavadasgupta2147 Рік тому

    Respected Sister
    Do you know
    Amarta
    Sen

  • @uusrano
    @uusrano 4 роки тому +4

    They should have put her whole sentence in the title: "You have no reason to fear low-skilled migration, because they will all just end as slaves and servants."
    And also, her example is from a capitalist country. This is not applicable to social country. And saying that there is not a messy migration in EU is quite a joke.

  • @godfriedmontana2705
    @godfriedmontana2705 3 роки тому +1

    This interviewer has, as usual, filtered out a statement that fits his political ideology: “You have no reason to fear low-skilled migration”. This is a half-truth. England, with its very high population density, has every reason to fear it or, at least, to oppose it, because it has a negative effect on the quality of the life of the existing population. At the same time it does not make most of the existing population any better off financially since the fruits of the work done by the immigrants are consumed mainly by the immigrants themselves or the entrepreneurs who employ them. All that was said here about the economic impact of immigration and much more was said in 2007 by top UK economist Adair Turner in a lecture at the London School of Economics (I’m sure Ms. Duflo is aware of it). He examined the claims of Tony Blair that because we have vacancies we need to fill them with immigrants and the claims of his working-class opponents that immigrants steal their jobs. He called both claims ‘economically illiterate’. And as Ms. Duflo pointed out when US farmers could not get immigrants to do their dirty work they replaced them with machines. This point was ignored by the interviewer, as those who are familiar with him would expect, but it is the way forward for England. Failure to tell these truths by politicians from left to right is the reason we have Brexit.

  • @pstolee
    @pstolee 4 роки тому

    Interesting. One of many questions would be , what does GDP per head head mean? For instance, isn't GDP per head mean something different in some African country where you may have a very rich class and lots of poor with an all but absent middle class. Compare that to a more egalitarian society like Norway. Or Norway versus United States.

    • @suindude8149
      @suindude8149 3 місяці тому

      Truely man,I observed the portion in these days the trend looming large in Indian subcontinent also.Lunatic process worldwide pushing Indian subcontinent to the worst hit towards the Indian middle class creating unnecessary absurd classes which happened to be middle class.
      In the post Covid scenario it is observable the way India is moving ahead there will be a hidden class except the survival of few enterpreneurs to a dim life,hidden class suffering from the uncertainty of life will be having few Economic shot to death,if survived then will be amidst a poverty shrieken area of light,in my view a tremendously shocked poor class of migrant is visible always trying for the best Education and sometimes which causes them to take faulty steps.Its like Robinson Crusoe diary when watching the immigrants with potential mortality rate sometimes shook my mind in this poorest part of poor subcontinent.Education only would have been a powerful tool to survive,the great form of resilience would have to be put up as after Covid days.The Covid has smashed all the portions away whereas the skimmed up higher middle class is suffering to obtain the correct shape of the life,the hard bound portion is a failure leading to high matter of divestiture in these days of lucid uncertainty,every degree is higher the survival of all classes exist for a while and then vanishes,we are all becoming hopeless,tiresome with wholesome unhappiness,looking back at the returns of the day there was nothing but a smashing hold of jobs with all organizational pros and cons to generate more outcome in learning.
      There could be more space to generate broad insight in survival if we measure the proper niche.Where am I exactly?Am I somebody with higher than that of middle class fraternity in case of education,the fellow colleagues either,really not known to me.That will be an eye opener of mine in future.
      India's eye as of now will be a complete eye opener to all the nuisance to ludicrous mentality who are having debased till yet,this is a positive sign to irrationality to everyone.
      As this matter of life is a function of long term seemingly the Education also.Its the great view to be visible amongst the winners in the area of lot of unknowns to view the invisible arena of generation of wealth.Life will teach me a lesson.Wealth life imbalance would be a cause of irrationality from all perspective,may be it is possible to judge myself may be in broader arena might not be having any idea to put me on track.

  • @conor85882
    @conor85882 2 роки тому

    Its Cory Feldman

  • @arunavadasgupta2147
    @arunavadasgupta2147 Рік тому

    Either
    Organic
    Or
    Inorganic
    Chemical

  • @arunavadasgupta2147
    @arunavadasgupta2147 Рік тому

    Who
    Is
    The
    Best
    Abhijit Vinayak
    Bandhopadaya
    Or
    Amarta
    Sen

  • @Dave183
    @Dave183 4 роки тому +1

    We worked long hours for low wages especially durum g the harvest season. We got a slightly higher wage for overtime- 1.5 times. This was cancelled when migrant workers came along. :(

  • @gda295
    @gda295 4 роки тому

    she has to stretch to ''save'' some of the stranger questions / links of the interviewer

  • @arunavadasgupta2147
    @arunavadasgupta2147 Рік тому

    Econometric
    Based
    On
    Micro
    Economy
    And
    Statics

  • @jagsherdhaliwal3191
    @jagsherdhaliwal3191 4 роки тому +24

    Lol, most of the people here probably have not even read a page of development economics🤧smh!

    • @alingard1
      @alingard1 4 роки тому +4

      but maybe we can all learn something new here??
      whats your point?

    • @jagsherdhaliwal3191
      @jagsherdhaliwal3191 4 роки тому +7

      @@alingard1 My point is directed at people in the comment section that are trying to discredit her. I am all for learning something new!

    • @watercolourmark
      @watercolourmark 4 роки тому

      I am part of the problem, I am not part of the solution.

    • @anshuecon
      @anshuecon 4 роки тому +3

      @gx240 We support mass immigration into India as well. It's not only the ''West'' that has to deal with immigrants. The largest refugee populations are in non-Western countries like Turkey, Lebanon, and Colombia.

    • @anshuecon
      @anshuecon 4 роки тому +3

      @gx240 And how exactly is stealing the most talented doctors/engineers/scientists etc from developing countries ''destroying'' the West? If anything, it perpetuates Western dominance.

  • @paolobesabella3029
    @paolobesabella3029 4 роки тому +3

    She and her husband are my professors!

    • @godfriedmontana2705
      @godfriedmontana2705 3 роки тому

      You might like point out to Esther Duflo that this interviewer has, as usual, filtered out a statement that fits his political ideology: “You have no reason to fear low-skilled migration”. This is a half-truth. England, with its very high population density, has every reason to fear it or, at least, to oppose it, because it has a negative effect on the quality of the life of the existing population. At the same time it does not make most of the existing population any better off financially since the fruits of the work done by the immigrants are consumed mainly by the immigrants themselves or the entrepreneurs who employ them. All that was said here about the economic impact of immigration and much more was said in 2007 by top UK economist Adair Turner in a lecture at the London School of Economics (I’m sure Ms. Duflo is aware of it). He examined the claims of Tony Blair that because we have vacancies we need to fill them with immigrants and the claims of his working-class opponents that immigrants steal their jobs. He called both claims ‘economically illiterate’. And as Ms. Duflo pointed out when US farmers could not get immigrants to do their dirty work they replaced them with machines. This point was ignored by the interviewer, as those who are familiar with him would expect, but it is the way forward for England. Failure to tell these truths by politicians from left to right is the reason we have Brexit.

  • @worldeconomicsbro
    @worldeconomicsbro 3 роки тому

    sorry to say but the interviewer just doesn't understand what Esther is saying... Basically, the interviewer is making her repeat the same thing over and over.

  • @oafpolitics179
    @oafpolitics179 4 роки тому +16

    "You have no reason to fear low-skilled migration". Unless you are poor. then you will have more competition for work, more competition for welfare, more competition for your kids in education, more waiting in traffic/pubic transport, more pressure on the health services.
    Wealthy economists and journalists will be alright though.

    • @cinergiflims
      @cinergiflims 4 роки тому +8

      Did you not listen at all to her explain why you have nothing to fear? She went over many of the exact things you talk about and explained how they are not a concern.

    • @oafpolitics179
      @oafpolitics179 4 роки тому +3

      @@cinergiflims From the mouth of someone who doesn't have to experience it all every single day.

    • @oafpolitics179
      @oafpolitics179 4 роки тому +1

      @intempify What? Don't know how you get to that absurd proposition.

    • @cinergiflims
      @cinergiflims 4 роки тому +1

      @@oafpolitics179 sorry bud, wrong again. I live on a council estate (both previously in East London and now in Scotland) and have worked in the service industry for many years. I'm very familiar with migration. I'm cool with it.

    • @oafpolitics179
      @oafpolitics179 4 роки тому +1

      @@cinergiflims Guess you are walking around with your eyes shut then.
      Clearly have no idea.

  • @nermalk2350
    @nermalk2350 4 роки тому +2

    #lovelabour

  • @sumansikdar9936
    @sumansikdar9936 2 роки тому

    Host should listen more rather than talking and allow the Guest to speak more

  • @arunavadasgupta2147
    @arunavadasgupta2147 Рік тому

    Ether
    Is
    Chemical

  • @How.Dare.You.
    @How.Dare.You. 3 роки тому

    She won a Nobel prize?! This woman doesnt convince me at all. "Migrants wont move because they wont" okeeeeeyyy. Actually they do and they will. Shes comparing Greeks to Syrians??? Theres a massive difference why the later move. War. Greeks were never pushed to such limits as developing continents. Middle East and Africa are either in a war already or under a massive risk of being in one so what is she on about? I can go on contradiciting what she claims is the case.

  • @rameshsingla6875
    @rameshsingla6875 3 роки тому

    No price any type
    Don't mind please

  • @xperu
    @xperu 4 роки тому +1

    Very interesting. Especially re tax rises not affecting productivity but causing the rich to leave the country. That really is the problem as the rich pay ever higher proportions of the total tax take. Few years ago NJ raised state income tax and David Tepper moved to Florida leaving a $200m hole in the budget-about the same as the entire revenue from state regulated online gambling.

    • @ireneuszpyc6684
      @ireneuszpyc6684 4 роки тому +1

      if New Jersey's budget depends on one rich guy - it's a banana republic

    • @claudiabatcke1312
      @claudiabatcke1312 4 роки тому

      @@ireneuszpyc6684 If your definition of banana republic is that it is a place with big wealth inequality? The dictionary defines it so: "a small state that is politically unstable as a result of the domination of its economy by a single export controlled by foreign capital".

    • @ireneuszpyc6684
      @ireneuszpyc6684 4 роки тому

      @@claudiabatcke1312 a decade ago Financial Times called Ireland a banana republic, because a few bankers were controlling the government, so I think the definition can be broadened

  • @arunavadasgupta2147
    @arunavadasgupta2147 Рік тому

    My
    Next
    Article
    Will
    Be
    Labour
    Economy
    Since
    Labour
    S
    Are
    Strength
    Of the
    Country

  • @TheGuiseppe90
    @TheGuiseppe90 4 роки тому +4

    She is my hero!

    • @uioplkhj
      @uioplkhj 4 роки тому +3

      @Albert Pike Ignorant thing to say, did you even watch the interview?

  • @flashbeaster
    @flashbeaster 4 роки тому +4

    minimum wage is dictated by government laws not by migrants.
    Also, people migrate because of the willingness of country to take on migrants, so the wage is already minimal, yes, minimal for nationals to even apply for it.

    • @jameswhiteley6843
      @jameswhiteley6843 4 роки тому

      And wages not increasing is due to a supply of third-world migrants willing to work for less.

    • @flashbeaster
      @flashbeaster 4 роки тому +1

      @@jameswhiteley6843 no, wages are not increasing because everything costs the same.

    • @jameswhiteley6843
      @jameswhiteley6843 4 роки тому

      @@flashbeaster no, wages are not increasing because people from the third-world are willing to work for less. And no, not everything does cost the same.

    • @Archie.Fisher
      @Archie.Fisher 4 роки тому +2

      If anything can be said to dictate minimum wage, it's the market.

    • @HS-fm9kv
      @HS-fm9kv 4 роки тому +2

      JAMES WHITELEY wages are not increasing because of company executives are rewarded on shareholder value, where worker and customer are no longer the driving priorities of companies (read Milton Friedman’s hideous economic theories implemented and espoused by the right).
      The con is complete when I read your moronic posts- the reason why the working class and progressively the middle classes are going backwards isn’t because of immigrants or Jews or the EC/UN but because economic policies implemented in the 60s which have never been challenged!

  • @lauroreyes4602
    @lauroreyes4602 2 роки тому

    Awarding a price for theoretical approaches b 4 real world results is the dummest thing ever

  • @arunavadasgupta2147
    @arunavadasgupta2147 Рік тому

    Member International Court of justice
    The Netherland

  • @drlobomalo
    @drlobomalo 4 роки тому +9

    And some people like elbow room, fewer traffic jams, more open spaces, preservation of wildlands and wildlife and housing prices that are not always skyrocketing.

    • @jvnk08
      @jvnk08 4 роки тому +2

      Lets preserve everything as it is forever. Great idea rollo!

    • @chriswatson1698
      @chriswatson1698 4 роки тому

      @@donsantiagoramoncajal1199 The area of land within a reasonable commute of employment is fixed. So an increase in population makes every square metre of that land more valuable and more expensive, This is great for those who own land, but the younger and poorer members of the community must pay more and more for less and less living space.
      Population increase, most of which is migrants, affects EVERY aspect of life. Immigration has EVERYTHING to do with traffic congestion and loss of biodiversity.

  • @arunavadasgupta2147
    @arunavadasgupta2147 Рік тому

    Accept
    My
    Challenge
    For
    Debt
    With
    Me
    Macro
    And
    Micro
    Economy

  • @lo3572
    @lo3572 4 роки тому +3

    I trust what I see with my own eyes.

    • @claudiabatcke1312
      @claudiabatcke1312 4 роки тому +5

      And you trust your perception to be neutral and non-selective?

    • @lo3572
      @lo3572 4 роки тому +1

      Claudia Bätcke it’s probably skewed, but it’s the best I’ve got.

    • @1stellamaris
      @1stellamaris 4 роки тому +3

      @@lo3572 So do you think the sun goes round the earth or the earth goes round the sun?

    • @lo3572
      @lo3572 4 роки тому

      1stellamaris I don’t know & don’t care. I’ve never been to space. Not as pressing of a matter as who’s gonna use my taxes

    • @watercolourmark
      @watercolourmark 4 роки тому +2

      Well, quantum physics would suggest that we have no such thing as an objective reality. Never trust what you see with your own eyes, look for consensus outside oneself.

  • @chriswatson1698
    @chriswatson1698 4 роки тому

    Australia has had massive immigration over the last decade. The more migrants we accept, the lower our GDP per capita. Homelessness, especially among the elderly has increased. The migrants contribute to the need for more infrastructure, that all Australians have to pay for, not just the newcomers that make it necessary. And the taxes that are spent on infrastructure for foreigners, count as GDP, that the government can claim as economic growth.

  • @frankvonfrauner
    @frankvonfrauner 2 роки тому

    Whenever her ideology doesn't line up with the data, she calls it a "technical issue"
    Trump cut the corporate tax rate by 15% in 2016 and Federal tax revenue increased. In 2017 he cut payroll taxes for everyone making between $9000 and $150,000 a year by 3-4%, and revenues went up again.
    Spending and the deficit also went way up, I'm not trying to say he fixed everything, I'm just pointing out that it's completely deceptive to say that tax cuts don't put more people to work and more money in the pockets of working people.
    It also increases inequality because it's so much easier to make money when you're already rich and unless you can figure out a way to make a 1% return on $10 million bee worth less than a 20% pay increase for someone making $50k a year, it will always be that way. Being mad at arithmetic is pointless.

  • @DixonSimonLee
    @DixonSimonLee 4 роки тому +2

    Understand the motivations of the players, the banks, the governments and the corporations. Understand what drives an economy.
    After a war GDP falls, this is because capitalism is the absence of order. If you want to boost GDP, organise the population better, standardise education and employment, connect investment to an individual’s educational achievements.
    Capitalism doesn't take care of the majority it caters for the top %. If a country only has a limited number of jobs available, we should train everyone and share the work. Your job shouldn't define you, one day you could be a cleaner the next a doctor. Capitalism freed the people but it also freed the wealthy of their responsibility, Monarchs looked after their people.
    We have technology today and within the next ten years everyone on this planet will be connected, when that happens we can all take a vote on whether we should honour birth rights or if we should drop the current financial systems and create a fair undiscriminating economy that focuses on demand rather than indulgence. a living wage with optional work and pay relative to an individual’s local demand. This will ensure the people who prosper are the people who give the most.
    This change will protect the west's ideology, Nobel Prize me!

    • @CC-tq9xu
      @CC-tq9xu 4 роки тому

      Simon Dixon you definitely voted for Corbyn

    • @DixonSimonLee
      @DixonSimonLee 4 роки тому

      @@CC-tq9xu no, Corbyn represents an even larger handover of wealth and the nhs would have died quicker, I didn't vote. The equivalent would be taking out finance on a car without a job.

    • @CC-tq9xu
      @CC-tq9xu 4 роки тому

      Simon Dixon the issue with your comment is that it bears no significance to the points that Esther made in the video. It’s merely peacocking your own opinions. If you can provide some thesis and evidence for your opinions past the point of merely stating it to appear Informed or ‘woke’.

    • @DixonSimonLee
      @DixonSimonLee 4 роки тому

      @@CC-tq9xu "peacocking" lol yeah girls love it! The video is about an economist and her perspective, I've stated a different one. Unfortunately, there's no incentive for me to wright a thesis but luckily for you and humanity I won't need to.
      Its evident we are on a trajectory and have been since 1975 when PCs first came in to the home. If you believe humans will continue to honor claims to natural resource because they have dominated it for the past 100 or so years, you're wrong. all the wars, inequality and destruction have been a result of capatalisum. The future isn't socialsim, it's an organised vision of capatalisum and it will be achieved the same way america created its $. first influece the people (face book) second, build value behind a currency, "gold" or in todays age "proccessing power"(bitcoin mining) finally the proposal of a new constitution. Global access to free online education, standardisation of everything so an uber type agarithum can orchestrate the workforce and A finance system to back individuals progress. Everyone will work for the single digital society, no borders or intellectual property just progression and democracy.
      The world is getting smaller JB and this isn't opinion this is foresight, history repeats and this has all happened before.

    • @CC-tq9xu
      @CC-tq9xu 4 роки тому

      Simon Dixon a nobel prize winning economist who’s thesis has been examined by independent boards. If you really think bitcoin or something as such will be part of the next revolution then you’ve shown how out of touch you really are my friend.
      Maybe try reading factfulness by hans rosling, or her own book good economics for hard times and not conspiracy videos on UA-cam. You can have an opinion but it doesn’t mean you’re right.
      If however you can point me to a source of information which backs up your perspective for me to actually read that would be great. Preferably a reliable source and not Alex jones.

  • @Ladynipchick2
    @Ladynipchick2 4 роки тому +1

    Nice lady, but where I live the numbers of homeless on the streets has risen over the last decade, so ... ?

    • @fabiomartins1218
      @fabiomartins1218 4 роки тому +3

      So, real estate inflation and wage stagnation?

    • @Ladynipchick2
      @Ladynipchick2 4 роки тому

      @@fabiomartins1218 Think so!

    • @shedendpussys
      @shedendpussys 4 роки тому +2

      ​@@fabiomartins1218 Almost like there's a supply/demand disequilibrium causing that. Couldn't possibly comprehend why.

    • @watercolourmark
      @watercolourmark 4 роки тому +4

      Ladynipchick2 - Do you live in the U.K? Homeless is up here, just had over 10 years of austerity, places like N.E. of England lost 50% of social provision, some people lost all access to money for 12 months, many had to wait months to make a claim. That being main cause of homelessness in the U.K. in the last 10 years - what you think would happen. Homelessness has been ended in Finland. They had a crazy idea - build housing and buy empty buildings, place the homeless in the housing and give them benefits and support... it is almost like they found a solution to a problem by actually providing a solution to the problem.

    • @Ladynipchick2
      @Ladynipchick2 4 роки тому

      @@watercolourmark Yes. I do. And I agree about Finland. Way ahead of everyone else in dealing with the problem!!

  • @Jpb90k
    @Jpb90k 4 роки тому +12

    Economics aside - what about the issue of demographic replacement? People are entitled to a homeland and don't want to become a minority in their own country. Continually shuttling in enormous amounts of foreign workers is not fair on the native population. Stating this is not bigoted, racist, xenophobic or any of these very popular buzzwords - it's simply the truth.

    • @Wanamaker1946
      @Wanamaker1946 4 роки тому +1

      Jacko Slapbass
      I fully agree with you Jack.
      TRUMP2020

    • @001HK0
      @001HK0 4 роки тому +7

      Isn't that inherently a xenophobic perspective? The fear (phobia) of being replaced by foreign (xeno) workers? I'm interested in what homeland you believe their children born in your country are entitled to, if any. If you believe their children are entitled to a homeland other than the only home they have known, one could argue that your homeland is wherever your ancestors immigrated from. Reductio ad absurdum - no one has a right to a homeland outside of the fertile regions in Africa where humanity originated.

    • @Lolux1701
      @Lolux1701 4 роки тому

      @@001HK0 Haven't you heard? A recent discovery has shown that "humanity" didn't originate in Africa at all by the looks of it but in central Europe. To adress your point: The children of immigrants always have a "backup country" their country of ancestral origin they could return to. This return is especially easy for them if they, which is often the case, don't fully integrate into the new country. The previous inhabitants of said country however don't have the benefit of a "secondary home".

    • @AlanWattResistance
      @AlanWattResistance 4 роки тому

      @@001HK0 Tell that the Chinese or Japanese.

    • @001HK0
      @001HK0 4 роки тому +1

      @@Lolux1701 You mean the recent studies that showed breeding between local archaic humans of Eurasia (not as specific a region as central Europe) and H. Sapiens? You'd rather define yourself by your less-advanced archaic human roots than your H. Sapien ones? How does a child return to a country they have never set foot in? If you actually read any research on these displaced children you would find it is not particularly easy for them when they "return" as they tend to have very little familiarity with the true way of life in the place they end up, just knowing a few of the customs is insufficient.

  • @chriswatson1698
    @chriswatson1698 4 роки тому +1

    People don't move!!! What about the million of African and Middle Eastern migrants that invaded Europe in 2015?

  • @drlobomalo
    @drlobomalo 4 роки тому +2

    LA Times says construction worker wages lower than 40 years ago. I posted a link and the comment was removed:
    Immigrants flooded California construction. Worker pay sank. Here’s why
    Construction in Los Angeles has shifted from a heavily unionized labor force that was two-thirds white to a largely non-union one that is 70% Latino and heavily immigrant.
    By NATALIE KITROEFF
    APRIL 22, 2017

    • @Yutani_Crayven
      @Yutani_Crayven 4 роки тому

      There's a very SIMPLE solution to solve your issue with "lower wages" and that's INCREASING THE MINIMUM WAGE and increasing monitoring and fines against businesses who employ people illegally to get around that.

    • @driskoolio
      @driskoolio 4 роки тому

      And that's the immigrants' fault. The immigrants screwed the unions, hired unqualified workers, paid cash in hand...

  • @cybersecurityforce9507
    @cybersecurityforce9507 2 роки тому

    Capitalism ❤️❤️

  • @kayzar293
    @kayzar293 4 роки тому +1

    The lad from The Goonies is a female economist now?

  • @shedendpussys
    @shedendpussys 4 роки тому +11

    And you have no reason to fear being told 'No'. Which is our answer, and you know it's the answer, that's why you're here desperately attempting to convince us otherwise. The answer is NO. Not particularly complicated. Now, thank you and have a nice day.

    • @uioplkhj
      @uioplkhj 4 роки тому +1

      Dude, what are you on about? No to what? And what if my answer is Yes? Do you fear an educated woman's opinion?

  • @AlanWattResistance
    @AlanWattResistance 4 роки тому +10

    Of course a rich middle-class economist supports low-skilled migration. She's never going to be squeezed out of her job or have to live amoungst the criminal element, that inevitably follows it. But I guess it's nice to have an ethnic polish your shoes, feels more 'cultured'.

    • @109joiner
      @109joiner 4 роки тому +3

      AWResistance oh for goodness sake listen to yourself, aren’t you embarrassed.

    • @AlanWattResistance
      @AlanWattResistance 4 роки тому +1

      @@109joiner No sir, i am not, i've seen the reality of such short-sighted and naive thinking.

    • @AlanWattResistance
      @AlanWattResistance 4 роки тому +1

      @intempify No, i said a criminal element always follows low-skilled migration. Desperate people turn to criminality, and they use ethnic loyalty to form gangs in many cities across the country.

    • @AlanWattResistance
      @AlanWattResistance 4 роки тому +1

      @intempify I never said there weren't any English criminal gangs.

    • @jackshiels3239
      @jackshiels3239 4 роки тому

      @@AlanWattResistance where's your econ PhD btw?

  • @overcamehim
    @overcamehim 4 роки тому

    Economics is the most miserable science. She seems to be aging rapidly.

  • @joet8862
    @joet8862 4 роки тому +7

    So is she basically saying we should be ok with making the country shitter?

    • @joet8862
      @joet8862 4 роки тому

      @intempify lol i think i can provide something more worthwhile than a person who can't even speak the language. There's only so many amazon delivery drivers or 1 star hygiene chicken and chip shop workers this country needs

    • @merrickx
      @merrickx 4 роки тому +1

      @intempify --- Wages haven't changed due to migration --- do you really believe her? You can look at the construction sector solely

  • @BowlerTheHatGuy
    @BowlerTheHatGuy 4 роки тому

    Does she say anything precise and meaningful or just blah blah blah? Its been 3 minutes so far and I am already yawning...

  • @61shirley
    @61shirley 4 роки тому +11

    Third world migration is what concerns me

  • @pakistaniatheist2405
    @pakistaniatheist2405 4 роки тому +8

    I thought charlie sheen put on a wig lol

    • @Freshy009
      @Freshy009 4 роки тому

      @@shipscook3765 I'm literally shocked

  • @Andrea-cy8hr
    @Andrea-cy8hr 4 роки тому +6

    Looks like a man or is it me ?

  • @truelies144
    @truelies144 4 роки тому +5

    Quite clearly a man

  • @muditsingh1969
    @muditsingh1969 Рік тому

    Can Esther start studying a way for people to select their politicians so that the persons in power are benefiting the world and possess conscient to the rest of the world. The politicians seem to forget to balance the needs of people in the rest of the world somehow. Better use of resources is the way to help the survival of other countries. For instance, the grocery stores in North American (Canada and USA) are very rich and I always wonder what happens to the unsold perishable goods ? Can we create a system to deliver the perishable goods to the less unfortunate at no cost or with tax benefits to the corporations if they contribute ?