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16 Sept 2015 Conversations with Tyler Luigi Zingales on Italy, Google and Conglomeration, and Donald Trump (Live at Mason)
“I think that I got much more interested in monetary problems, and since ironically I started to study economics because I grew up in a country with double‑digit inflation, so I thought that that was a big problem.”
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- 16 Sept 2015
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…Around here, we’ll grant you that. How would you say your opinions have changed in the last 7 to 10 years? An awful lot has happened in the world. The EU has not turned out the way a lot of people thought. There’s a lot more opposition to migration. We’ve had a financial crisis. We may be on the verge, possibly, of another global recession because of China. Italy possibly or probably hasn’t turned things around. Over the course of the last 10 years, how have your views changed? I don’t mean on particulars, but at the conceptual level? I think that I got much more interested in monetary problems, and since ironically I started to study economics because I grew up in a country with double‑digit inflation, so I thought that that was a big problem. But then by the time I became an economist, inflation was not an issue and I thought that was not particularly interesting. Now, all this issue of deflation, how to fight deflation, is deflation a problem — I think that are topics that, 10 years ago, I would be completely ignorant about and now I’m fascinated by. Now you think they’re very important.…
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