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61. Was Austan Goolsbee’s First Visit to the Oval Office Almost His Last?

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Is There a Difference Between Academics and Policy?

I would have felt hopelessly unqualified for that roll. The time pressure is extraordinarily intense, and the standard of evidence is pretty darned low. There was a moment when rom emmanuel's management styles, yelling, and you get that to me by five o'clock. It's totally fine to call other experts and piggy back off of their experts. That's true in campaigns, too. Much of the job is not you coming up with the ideas yourself. Its tapping into this whole team of economists at the c e a or the whole universe of economists outside the government,. Get the ideas, cause you got to come up with it by friday.

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