Lawrence Summers /Professor at Harvard University/
Reflections on the new ‘Secular Stagnation hypothesis’
30 October 2014 – http://www.voxeu.org/
The notion that Europe and other advanced economies are suffering secular stagnation is gaining traction. This column by Larry Summers – first published in the Vox eBook “Secular Stagnation: Facts, Causes and Cures” – explains the idea. It argues that a decline in the full-employment real interest rate coupled with low inflation could indefinitely prevent the attainment of full employment.