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S E50: A Conversation with Larry Summers: The Influence of Economic Ideas and the Dangers of Secular Stagnation

Think Like An Economist

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What I Learned in Government

In the academic world, if a problem is too hard, what you do is you work on a different problem. You don't have that luxury when you're in policy. And so you have to be for a course of action. "To not decide is to decide to do nothing," he says.

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