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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

Bush's Council of Economic Advisers in 2006. The financial crisis and subsequent economic downturn — which Lazear somewhat infamously downplayed while in office — have put a big dent in the credibility of the macro side of the discipline. The issue isn't that economists have nothing interesting to say about the crisis.

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