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Category Archives: Economics
Andrei Shleifer and the Harvard Economists Who Looted Russia
In a photograph taken in Moscow when he was six, Andrei Shleifer (b. February 20, 1961) wears the uniform of a Soviet Army general. The costume fit the boy. When a friend moved to one of the best schools in … Continue reading
Richard Thaler – The Man Who Took Away the Cashews
Rochester, New York, early 1970s. A roast in the oven, the smell of it filling a graduate student’s apartment. Young economists stand around with drinks, waiting for dinner. Richard Thaler (b. 1945), a student himself, sets out a large bowl … Continue reading
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Paul Krugman – The Model and the Column
The cell phone rings at 6:40 in the morning, October 13, 2008. Paul Krugman (b. February 28, 1953) stands in a Washington hotel room, stripped for the shower. A voice with a Swedish accent tells him he has won the … Continue reading
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Economist Jeffrey Sachs – The Plan and the Ground
Jeffrey Sachs (b. 1954) comes to La Paz in 1985 as a Harvard professor not yet thirty-one years old, and the thin air at twelve thousand feet leaves a visitor breathless before he has done anything at all. Bolivia is … Continue reading
Nobel Prize Winning Economist Daron Acemoglu
On the afternoon of October 14, 2024, Daron Acemoglu (b. 1967) stood on a hotel balcony in Athens with a phone to his ear. He had given a talk that morning. Reporters waited for him downstairs. The call came from … Continue reading
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Adam Tooze: A Historian of Material Power
Adam Tooze (b. 1967) is an English-American historian of capitalism, war, political economy, and global power, and over the past two decades he has emerged as a central figure in the writing of modern economic history. His reputation rests on … Continue reading
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Quinn Slobodian: Historian of How Capitalism Is Governed
Quinn Slobodian (b. 1978), a Canadian intellectual historian, has remade the study of neoliberalism, globalization, international economic governance, and the contemporary right, and over the past decade he has become an influential historian of political economy writing in English. His … Continue reading
Amartya Sen: Economics as Moral Inquiry
Amartya Sen (b. November 3, 1933) works as an economist, a philosopher, and a public intellectual, and across more than seven decades he has reshaped how scholars and governments think about welfare, poverty, famine, democracy, justice, and human development. He … Continue reading
Paul Craig Roberts: From the Treasury to the Margins
Paul Craig Roberts (b. 1939) built a career that ran from academic economics through the Reagan Treasury to the outer edges of American dissident commentary. He stands among the principal architects of supply-side economics and served as Assistant Secretary of … Continue reading
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Adam Davidson and the Narrative Reconstruction of Economic Journalism
Adam Davidson (b. 1970) belongs to the generation of American journalists who rebuilt public economic explanation after the financial crisis of 2008. He produced no original economic theory and practiced no technical financial reporting. His contribution lies in narrative form. … Continue reading
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