The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
The new list has been published and I am pleased and honored to have made it. The non-economists include such figures as Obama, Merkel, Sarkozy, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg. The economists — plenty of them — include Krugman, Stiglitz, Reinhart and Rogoff, Roubini, Lant Pritchett, and Duflo and Banerjee. To engage in some superficial self-reflection, the striking thing about the list is that everyone on it is either a) more successful than I am, or b) has been to jail or is headed there. Somehow I expect to continue to evade both categories. Both Rogoff and I recommended the Frank Brady biography of Bobby Fischer. My entering PhD. class put three people on the list, Roubini and Banerjee being the other two.