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Sir Stephen John Nickell, Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, joins the podcast to discuss his many mentors at the London School of Economics, how an invite to meet Gordon Brown in Aspen helped put a labor economist on the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, and his lasting impact on the field of labor economics and economic policy in the UK.

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-02/023-TWGO-Nickell_transcript.pdf

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