One of the reasons I’m seriously considering moving to Europe (and specifically London) is that there will be far less pressure on me to “do everything” on one trip. This last jaunt took the cake on that front: a trip that began just to be a keynote speaker at the annual Globes Economics Conference in Tel Aviv in early December stretched out to include two United Nations conferences in Bangkok in early November. So I found myself on the road for over 5 weeks, and a crazy sequence of cities in the process: Bangkok, Michigan, Washington, Atlanta, London, Berlin, Washington (again), London, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, London, and finally Sydney.
The upside of all that travel included the additional meetings with major institutions that got squeezed in there, including two talks at the US Congress, a meeting with stock-flow consistent modelers in the Bank of England, a presentation to a high-ranking official in the German Ministry of Finance, and a seminar with over a dozen economists from the Prime Minister’s office and the Central Bank in Israel.
It’s taken a long time, but I think I’m finally getting some penetration in official economic circles, [and I see] the curious possibility that real change in economics may come, not from academics, but from government economists.
Debtwatch
Debunking Economics
