“Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.”
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My teachers helped guide and motivate me but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.
