We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
The statists want to control the economy.
We just want to have great people working for us.
Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
'The Economist' is a biased organization.
People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.
Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity.
Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo - lean startup-style - to serve the American people better.
There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks.