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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

In 2006, the last time a President had to nominate a Fed chairman, the job went to Ben Bernanke, who had spent his entire career as an economics professor before being called up to Washington for a stint as a Fed board member in 2002. “Janet Yellen followed quickly, and the floodgates opened. Now it’s normal, even expected.”