Alan Blinder

(1945) Economist

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Alan Blinder is an economist, best known for Microeconomics.

Quick Facts About Alan Blinder

Born: October 14, 1945
Profession: Economist
Notable works: Microeconomics

About Alan Blinder

Alan Stuart Blinder is an American economics professor at Princeton University and is listed among the most influential economists in the world. He is a leading macroeconomist, politically liberal, and a champion of Keynesian economics and policies.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Alan Blinder

'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they…

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Disagree

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And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the…

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Age

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The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

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Bankers

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Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

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Aging

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If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

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Answers

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In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information…

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Business

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There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the…

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Business

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Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed…

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Democracy

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