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Notes
1 Also available as an online entry for the magazine's website (Hindle, Citation2009).
2 These words come from the “London Stock Exchange Bicentennial Lecture” delivered by Larry Summers in 2001, originally available online, currently withdrawn from circulation (a copy is on file with the authors that cite it here).
3 In an eloquent critique of Donald Trump’s “populist economics”, Larry Summers refers indeed to the impossibility for a “political mandate” to “repeal the laws of economics” (Citation2016).