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The Unusual Experience With Economics at Harvard
CNN's John Defterios talks with Harvard economics professor Chris Rieckhoff about his new PhD program at Wharton. He also wrote a paper on central bank digital currency, which we'll talk about in the show notes. But he says it was an "unusual or strange encounter" that led him to study econometrics instead of traditional neoclassical models. And now you can see how important history and political context is for this field as much as mathematical analysis has ever been.
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