Surveillance: Alan Krueger's Economic Legacy
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Remembering Princeton University's Alan Krueger with Dartmouth Professor of Economics Danny Blanchflower, Bloomberg International Economics & Policy Correspondent Michael McKee, University of Michigan Associate Professor for Public Policy & Former U.S. Department of Labor Chief Economist Betsey Stevenson, and Bloomberg Businessweek Economics Editor Peter Coy.
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| 0:40.0 | Daily, we bring you inside. Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keene. |
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| 1:00.0 | This past weekend, the feel of economics lost a giant. This program lost a very good friend. It is with great sadness that I say that |
| 1:07.4 | Princeton University economist Alan Krueger has died. The cause was suicide, he was 58. Alan, who had been a professor at Princeton since |
| 1:15.8 | 1987, served in Obama's White House from 2011 to 2013 after a stint as the Treasury Department |
| 1:22.3 | Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy. |
| 1:25.2 | In addition, he served as Chief Economist at the Labor Department for a year during President |
| 1:29.0 | Bill Clinton's administration. |
| 1:30.9 | Our listeners will remember him joining us on nearly every first Friday of the month to discuss the payrolls report. |
| 1:36.0 | He made us all smarter, every time he spoke, and put in great effort to help us all care about the people behind the data in a way not enough people do. |
| 1:45.6 | He cared, a loyal public servant and a world-renowned labour market expert. |
| 1:51.2 | I want to bring in on the phone now Danny Blanche Flatt, Dartmouth Professor of Economics and |
| 1:55.4 | here in the studio Michael McKee Blunberg International Economics and Policy Correspondent. |
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