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Twenty years’ varied experience as a professional economist has provided me with the basis for some broad, perhaps even unique, perspectives on the different roles economists play in society. I have toiled in all three vineyards—academia (University of Pittsburgh), government (Council of Economic Advisers) and now business (General Motors), and found the soil fertile in each—though perhaps conducive to different varietals.
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Whitman, M.v.N. (2016). 1982: Economics From Three Perspectives. In: Crow, R.T. (eds) The Best of Business Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-57251-6_14
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