Word: blinder
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...Alan S. Blinder, a professor of economics at Princeton University since 1979, worked to bring Bernanke to Princeton...
...thought he would be terrific here,” says Blinder. “It was not just that he had a high IQ and could solve puzzles. He was imaginative....I thought he was brilliantly creative...
After ten years on the Department of Economics faculty at Princeton, Bernanke became department chair. He held the position for five years, which Blinder says is an unusually long term for Princeton’s economics department...
...million jobs, many of them manufacturing jobs that are gone for good; 8.8 million people remain unemployed, 1 in 4 of them for an average of seven months. "You could say it wasn't as much a jobless recovery as it was a job-loss recovery," says Alan Blinder, a professor of economics at Princeton University and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board...
Perhaps earlier generations—their ingenuousness intact—were blinder to cynicism’s protective powers. In 1969, the editor-in-chief of my mother’s high school yearbook wrote: “We have chosen as the theme of this yearbook, The Adventures of Don Quixote, a novel built around a man whose life was not unlike ours. Much dissatisfied, he too dedicated himself to finding a better world of higher ideals and purer men, although he was believed a senile lunatic...