I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.
Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.
I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.