tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1331441403058020963.post393163394450059330..comments2024-03-28T06:49:24.930-04:00Comments on International Political Economy at the University of North Carolina: Interests, Ideas, and MIT EconomistsThomas Oatleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092437150746625670noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1331441403058020963.post-33448018406701472222012-01-22T15:17:00.397-05:002012-01-22T15:17:00.397-05:00"Particularly in democracies, political inter..."Particularly in democracies, political interests and ideas are often much more important than economic training..."<br /><br />This could well be. I don't know enough about the ins-and-outs of the economics profession and its divisions to sort this out really. (Nor have I read the linked article.) But one possibility is that policymaker X who went to MIT, say, and studied w/ a 'saltwater' economist might change his/her views after he or she is exposed to colleagues w different backgrounds in e.g. the IMF or some other place. (?)<br /><br />I happen to know that Bernanke went to Harvard for undergrad b/c some for some reason I looked up his senior thesis once (anyone w an internet connection can do that on the Harvard library site btw). Brilliant student, judging from his summa degree. I think his undergrad thesis prob had some econometrics in it, which wd make it pretty much incomprehensible to me.LFChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551197682770555147noreply@blogger.com