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Radical Uncertainty - Mervyn King

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Best Day of My Life

I wanted to go to Keynes's old college which was also the college of Richard Stone who was running this model in the Department of Applied Economics. So I applied and took the exams and went up for interview in Cambridge that was an interesting experience. A letter came to home saying I'd been accepted and I remember walking to school feeling on an absolute high that I had got into King's College Cambridge. That was one of the key turning points of my life for that any doubt. The funny thing is three years later on when I graduated from Cambridge I came back and found an envelope had been delivered under my door and it was something rather odd on one side of the paper. It turned it over

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