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For the next two years, Biden needs to bring back the economists

Time to make technocracy great again

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Matthew Yglesias
Aug 25, 2022
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Back in April of 2021, Ezra Klein wrote what I think is one of the most important columns of the Biden era explaining that economists and “thinking like an economist” had a reduced role in the Biden administration relative to the administrations of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

You can see that in a literal sense where the heads of the NEC and OMB don’…

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