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On this Sept. 11, let us pause amid the numerous moments of silence to remember and reflect on the true heroes who walk among us — the nation’s economists.
Yes, these brave academics who have for generations sacrificed themselves for causes greater than they were, who have fought and persevered in the name of freedom, whose selflessness is without equal, these are the people on which we can only pray our children will model their futures.
If only more economists had been dispatched to the World Trade Center on 9/11, how many lives could have been saved? If only we had, as a nation, possessed the foresight to call on a specially trained team of Keynesians from the New York Federal Reserve Bank on Maiden Lane, just a short walk away, that day would have been so different.
Consider this: Who but the nation’s economists have the uncommon valor to brave the New Jersey Turnpike’s treacherous Exit 9, the diabolical and unforgiving turns of Route 18 and the dastardly, terrifying traffic that is Route 1 on their way to the front lines of Princeton, N.J., each day? Do you have that stuff in you?
While it’s often said that leaders aren’t born, they’re made, in the case of economists one has to question the wisdom of such a platitude. Clearly, these brave souls are made of something that’s only found in DNA. Quite simply, they have an innate resolve that cannot be taught, not even at the London School of Economics.