Professor Thomas Cooley, who is the Advisory Committee Chair for the ADEMU project and also the Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, NYU, recently shared his views on how the concentration of wealth is holding back growth. The interview with Prof Cooley was printed in the Spanish newspaper ‘La Vanguardia’:
Age? I am already a demographic minority. Born in Vermont: my school only had one classroom. I was an engineer at IBM, but I was fascinated by Economics: I was Dean of NYU and an advisor at Standard & Poor’s. To create jobs, train your unemployed workers. In the wealthiest countries, education is a life-long endeavor. Continue reading

