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Re: [Pen-l] The economics professions
- To: Progressive Economics <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Pen-l] The economics professions
- From: raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:36:39 -0800
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You're looking for a philosopher-king's modern equivalent, the
> economist-governor? The current presidents of Mexico and Ecuador
> (Felipe Calderón and Rafael Correa) are economists. The latter seems
> pretty good, while the former seems to be an IMF hack. Likely Correa
> does not fit the Platonic ideal of the philosopher king, however.
> Nobody's perfect.
And the Cambridge/Oxford-educated economist Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh of India who is somewhere in between a populist and an
neo-liberal.
-raghu.
--
Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn.
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