ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: Will 2023 be the year of the central bank?
Their mandates are always a means to an end, and those ends have to be social
11 January 2023 - 05:00
I want to place in the public domain something I have opposed over several decades: predictions about the social world. I will not invoke Walt Whitman’s apology for self-contradiction, and instead hide behind John Maynard Keynes’s “hunch”.
More recently, Christian Madsbjerg wrote in Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm that the success that gave George Soros his fortune included “investigation, conceptualisation, and strategising [but] started with a hunch”...
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