Four Nobel economists on the biggest challenges for 2016

How to manage risk, sluggish productivity, deteriorating patterns of growth, relocating refugees – what keeps economists up at night? Image: REUTERS/Toru Hanai
A. Michael Spence
William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business, NYU Stern School of Business
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