saltwater economics
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refers to a school of heterodox macroeconomics thought in the US in the early 1970s; centered around coastal universities (Ivies, Berkeley, etc) whereas freshwater economics referred to schools around the Great Lakes; primarily a methodological disagreement about the extent to employ the theory of economic decision making; the divide no longer really holds true today
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Eichengreen belongs to the last generation of so-called ‘saltwater’ macroeconomists trained by Yale, MIT and Harvard in the 1970s and early 80s.
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Eichengreen belongs to the last generation of so-called ‘saltwater’ macroeconomists trained by Yale, MIT and Harvard in the 1970s and early 80s.
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parochial
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relating to a church parish; having a limited or narrow outlook or scope
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he moved beyond the personalized, parochial focus on the leadership of the US Federal Reserve
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he moved beyond the personalized, parochial focus on the leadership of the US Federal Reserve
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