Each of these prominent economists and policymakers have endorsed this concept either in public speeches, or private conversations, or publicly stated that this needs to be seriously considered.
Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England
Seven Nobel Laureates in Economics (Ackerlof, Lucas, Prescott, Phelps, Fogel, Merton, Sharpe)
Former U.S. Secretary of Treasury (George Shultz)
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor (Robert Reich)
Former U.S. Senator (Bill Bradley)
Two Past Chairs, Council of Economic Advisers (Michael Boskin and Murray Weidenbaum)
Two Former Chief Economists of the IMF (Harvard' s Ken Rogoff and MIT' s Simon Johnson)
Former Chief Economist of the SEC (Susan Woodward)
Former Deputy Comptroller of the Currency (Robert Bench)
Former Vice Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff (Admiral Williams Owens)
Jeff Sachs (Renown Macro Economist and Head of Columbia' s Earth Institute)
Jagadish Bhagwati (Renown International Economist)
Martin Wolf (Senior Economics Columnist for the Financial Times)
Steve Ross (MIT' s Premier Financial Economist and Father of Arbitrage Pricing Theory)
Niall Ferguson (Harvard' s Distinguished Economic Historian)
Kevin Hassett (Distinguished Economist at AEI and McCain' s Former Chief Economic Adviser)
Paul Romer (Stanford' s Distinguished Growth Theorist)
Domingo Cavallo (Former Economic Minister of Argentina)
Wiliam Niskanen (Chairman Emeritus, The Cato Institute)
Preston McAfee (Chief Economist, Yahoo)
Other Very Prominent Economists