Unicast

This morning we spent an hour at the Center for American Progress where John Irons hosted a Q&A about the Center, think tanks and American policy. Dr. Irons was very witty and informative, and the girls were quite impressed that he had Peter Diamond as his advisor in graduate school.

CAP is apparently now the second-largest think tank with more than 100 staff. It would certainly be interesting to have that kind of intellectual firepower informing the policy debate in Denmark where economists, in particular, do relatively little in the way of public communication and bridging the gap between economic theory and concrete policy initiatives.