“The protest has won the backing of prominent economists, including Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia University academic, and Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England. Its supporters believe that the exposure to a wider range of approaches is necessary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A letter published in the Times of London on March 30, 1981, signed by 364 prominent economists, predicted that Margaret Thatcher’s stringent fiscal policies would be disastrous. The UK’s spectacular economic turnaround proved they were dead wrong.” — Danielle DiMartino Booth Copy Share Image