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Is Trump or Harris right on the economy? What 23 Nobel laureates say

Heed the brightest minds in economics when they issue a dire warning about inflation, deficits and inequality if the former president is re-elected.

Kathryn Anne Edwards

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Economists mostly shun politics in favour of policy. We prefer to be aloof soothsayers giving voice to data and research rather than our own beliefs.

And yet, in a stunning turn — at least for us in the profession — 23 Nobel Prize-winning economists, from Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Daron Acemoglu, released a letter endorsing Kamala Harris for US president.

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