"You will almost never see an economist whom the academics themselves regard as important or interesting. For example, niether Robert Lucas, without question the most influential economic theorist of the 1970s, nor Paul Romer, arguably the most influential theorist of the 1980s, has ever appeared on any public affairs program."
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Businesspeople from the United StatesNobel laureates from the United StatesEconomists from the United StatesNobel laureates in EconomicsPeople from Denver
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Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity (1994), Introduction: Looking for Magicians
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