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Demographic shocks and global factor flows: discussion

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  • Gary Burtless

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A paper-giver's job is straightforward. It is to describe some interesting phenomenon or mechanism or effect, make large claims about its importance for our understanding of the world, and then marshal evidence to show these claims are true. ; Jeffrey Williamson has done his job wonderfully well. He knows much more about economic history than I do, so I can only defer to his deep knowledge. But I find it surprising that the mechanism described in this paper accounts for such a large fraction of the phenomena examined. Let me oversimplify the paper by baldly stating its hypothesis. Then I will make a couple of remarks about the findings.

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  • Gary Burtless, 2001. "Demographic shocks and global factor flows: discussion," Conference Series ; [Proceedings], Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, vol. 46.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedbcp:y:2001:n:46:x:7
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    Economic conditions; Demography;

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