The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A recent study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business attempted to answer this question by analyzing how expanded unemployment insurance affects aggregate demand for goods and services in an economy. This reduction was driven by two channels.

Aggregate Demand 101

Aggregate Demand Insurance Policies Tools 101

HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

More perpetual policies might be necessary to increase wages and support future aggregate demand ensuring workforce fairness. We have learned from history that wages for some occupations can shrink for quite a while during labor force transitions.

McKinsey 134

McKinsey Learning-by-Doing Skills Crisis 134

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

The higher the market demand for a drug, the greater the probability that at least one drug maker conducts basic research. In this case, the climate adaptation demand by the nonskeptics benefits the skeptics, because entrepreneurs are more likely to invest in climate resilient products, due to the aggregate demand by the nonskeptics.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Aggregate Demand Incentives Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains worldwide. The destruction will surely cost Japan many times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters.

GDP 15

GDP Aggregate Demand Supply Chain Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

” The Commission recommended responses that manage the overall health of the economy (managing and strengthening aggregate demand), promote educational opportunity, provide public employment, and secure transitional income maintenance. Fifty years later, these areas remain the basic road map for public policy response.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Skills Policies Aggregate Demand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

But a jobs strategy has to be based on aggregate demand throughout the economy. What I missed in his speech was the strategy for the other 90% of the labor force. Don't get me wrong; I'm not against stimulating manufacturing and stimulating exports and so on. If exports are the future, some of the jobs may well come in manufacturing.

Price 8

Price Aggregate Demand Skills Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The Ford story doesn’t add up , if you assume that Ford believed that his move alone was enough to raise overall demand for cars.

CEO 13

CEO Short-term Long-term Incentives 13