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Gene Sperling and Wall Street's Giant Sucking Sound

Harvard Business Review

A parallel that springs to mind is the deleterious impact that Western aid and development agencies have often had in Africa, at least in the past when they favored big-dollar projects. The money the Western do-gooders had at their disposal was of a different order of magnitude from the sums generated by the local economy.

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Longrunonomics vs. Shortrunonomics

Harvard Business Review

Real business cycle theory continued to prosper, developing an increasing stranglehold over the professional journals. Behavioral finance stayed on the margins. It doesn't offer much hope, though, for clear guidelines to macroeconomic decisionmaking. And nothing happened. It's not wrong. It's not useless.