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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

What wasn’t really up in the air was whether the new head of the world’s most powerful central bank would have a doctorate in economics. Gilbert did, can end up as president of the Dallas Fed (although who knows, maybe Tumblr founder David Karp has a shot). pretty much ever since. History has not judged his tenure well.