Agustin Carstens, Mexico's Finance Minister, is a busy man these days. Last week he spent the first part trying to calm markets that revised inflation figures were nothing to worry about. The second half of the week he spent assisting his boss, President Felipe Calderon, tackle the aftermath of the floods that hit Tabasco state and caused more than $500 million in damages to local agriculture....
Like many other influential policymakers in Latin America the past decade, Carstens is a "Chicago boy." He earned his M.A. and Ph.D in economics from the University of Chicago. In fact, he managed to get his PhD in 1985, only two years after getting his M.A. "That must be the fastest Ph.D on record," Alberto Ibarguen, a former publisher of The Miami Herald said when introducing Carstens to the Inter-American Dialogue dinner last week.
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Actually, Angus did that, too. He finished his PhD two years after his MA, at Wash U.
Since this is apparently an important qualification, I nominate Angus for Finance Minister of Bolivia. You heard it here first.
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Is WashU to Chicago what Bolivia is to Mexico then? Questionable.
Actually, it took me 4 years. I'm just so much fun to be with it seemed like only 2 to Mungowitz. I'd be thrilled to be the finance minister of Bolivia (or the agricultural minister for that matter) though!
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