Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Quotes
Economic history matters. Students of economics should read Charles MacKay and Charles Kindleberger, and should study the history of the Wall Street Crash as well as the theory and the mathematics required to formalize it.
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
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Economic history matters. Students of economics should read Charles MacKay and Charles Kindleberger, and should study the history of the Wall Street Crash as well as the theory and the mathematics required to formalize it.
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
