Kim Hill’s Saturday morning radio programme each week features Playing Favourites,an opportunity for Kim to talk to someone about their life and some of their favourite music.
This morning, somewhat unusually, it featured Girol Karacaoglu, Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary, Macroeconomics at The Treasury. Girol is the one senior manager at The Treasury with a strong professional background in economics and so should be a key adviser to governments.
He has an interesting story – growing up in Turkey as the child of Armenian and Lebanese parents, studying in Hawaii and ending up in New Zealand in the early 1980s (where he was one of my lecturers at Victoria). And even the shift from hardline “monetarist” – 25 years ago he used to routinely harass the Reserve Bank for insufficiently cleaving to Milton Friedman’s approach – to now what I might characterise as “activist OECD social democrat“. …
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