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Mentions personal use of Bach.

18 Dec 2019 Conversations with Tyler Esther Duflo on Management, Growth, and Research in Action

“I listen to Bach almost every morning when I’m walking, in particular to Bach cantatas.”

— Esther Duflo

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Esther Duflo
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18 Dec 2019
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Conversations with Tyler

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…And what is it? What do you put on? What’s your Desert Island Disc? Oh, that’s Bach. I listen to Bach almost every morning when I’m walking, in particular to Bach cantatas. That’s my morning music. Then in the afternoon I move on to more frontier stuff like Schumann or something like that. It’s only after dinner that it moves to Bob Dylan. So definitely it would be Bach, and it would probably be one of the Passions. Or if I could have two, I would take two Passions, the St. John and St. Matthew’s Passion. Yeah. What advice do you give to your talented undergraduates that differs from the advice your colleagues would give them?…

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