Since he couldn't become a Nobelist, he jokes, he'll now try to be a novelist.

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According to Nobelist Douglas North, the main difference between poor and rich nations is not growth rates.

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It was made by the founder of supply-side economics, the future economics Nobelist Robert A. Mundell, in 1971.

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Based on the recent course of events, one business-cycle scenario that merits consideration was fully developed in the 1930s by Friedrich von Hayek, a Nobelist and leader of the Austrian school of economics.

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The bankers will perhaps let us in on their game in on-the-record Davos sessions (most of the good ones are closed to the press) with European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, and Nobelist Columbia professor Joseph Stiglitz.

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