Writer and Poet Roya Hakakian arrived in the United States from Iran in 1985.
Adam Smith is often treated in popular discussions as a fundamentalist believer in the superiority of markets, and nothing more.
Rachel Glennerster is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, which is more-or-less the dictionary definition of an academic economist.
Here’s a comment from Lant Pritchett in an interview last June.
For economists, “widgets” are the example of a hypothetical product you use when you don’t want to get specific.
It’s not a big shock that those who get a PhD tend to have parents who also had a higher level of education.
Everyone loves to dunk on the Federal Reserve (Fed).