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Ethan Harris

lines on the record: 105
first: 2016-02-05
most recent: 2016-02-05
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“So, my career started basically with Jerry Corrigan. Oh, of course. And I ended up working closely with him. At one point, I was.”
2016-02-05 · Masters in Business · Interview With Ethan Harris: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Free markets, but at the same time. Well, I think that's where the compromise comes. And so you've got the extreme view of no intervention at all. And then you've got the very aggressive intervention. I think the reality is, and certainly what I learned at the Fed, which is obviously an interventionist institution, was you nudge the markets and the economy along. You don't try to micromanage it. And so that's where the agreement, I think, is. Now, of course, there's going to be debates, but I think that macroeconomics is not nearly as fractured as it sometimes looks like from the outside.”
2016-02-05 · Masters in Business · Interview With Ethan Harris: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think there is, but there's also, as in a lot of academia, there's a lot of debate about pretty fine points. I mean, I think there is a broad consensus among macroeconomists about some fairly general things. The idea of the importance of free markets, the idea that you do need a central bank that will manage the economy to some degree. There are people who would argue that we don't need to Fed Aren't those in...”
2016-02-05 · Masters in Business · Interview With Ethan Harris: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Furniture guy? Yeah, no, no, no. Mary Lynch, a whole different. No, so I was very interested in history. But what got me going into economics was that my older brother came back from the University of Chicago, an economics major, and he said, he started talking about economics with me. I then said, hey, you know, this sounds pretty interesting, you know, because remember, economics is a combination of history and math, and so it really fit my skill set. And I was a pretty nerdy kid in high school, so I decided to spend the summer reading Samuelson's introductory economics textbook. And that hooked me in on economics. So I was an economics major the day I arrived in college.”
2016-02-05 · Masters in Business · Interview With Ethan Harris: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I was a history buff as a kid with a name Ethan Harris growing up in Massachusetts. Of course, everyone talked about Ethan Allen in the Green Mountain Wisconsin.”
2016-02-05 · Masters in Business · Interview With Ethan Harris: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source