World's Most Influential Economist - Video
June 14, 2011
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Raghuram Rajan is an expert in the finance of economic growth. In 2005, his paper “Has financial development made the world riskier?” warned of the problems that subsequently led to the global financial crisis. The Economist recently named him the economist with the most-important ideas for the post-crisis world, and his 2010 book “Fault Lines” was named Business Book of the Year by the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs.
Rajan was Economic Counselor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund – its chief economist – from October 2003 to December 2006, the youngest person ever to hold the position. He is a professor of finance at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
A transcript of this interview is available here.
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