November 11, 2021 — Last night, Carmen Reinhart, who is on leave from Harvard Kennedy School to serve as the World Bank’s Chief Economist, gave the Gordon Lecture in the HKS Forum. (Video here.)
I was the moderator. In preparing my questions for her, I was struck by how many memorable phrases Carmen has coined in her research career. Here is a list of five such phrases. Three of them have their own Wikipedia entries, which is remarkable. And that doesn’t even count publications of hers that also have entries.