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Feb 2024
59m 21s

Ricardo Hausmann on How Economies Grow

YASCHA MOUNK
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Yascha Mounk and Ricardo Hausmann discuss development economics and how globalization has changed the nature of knowledge. Ricardo Hausmann is an economist and the founder and Director of Harvard’s Growth Lab and the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School. Hausmann has also served as Minister of P ... Show More
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