I have known Larry since the time I was on the junior job market and he was winding down a spectacular term as chairman of the BU economics department, having built a top-ten department out of nothing. Eight years later I spent a year as a faculty member at BU and again Larry was chairman. Everybody who has spent any time with Larry in a professional capacity agrees that he is a natural-born leader. He just has this quality that draws people from all sides to his. And he knows how to make an organization work. On top of all that he is great economist with world-leading expertise on the topics that would be most important for a President right now to know. I honestly can’t think of anybody I know personally who would make a better President than Larry. I might even vote for him.
Here’s his campaign web page. Via Tyler Cowen on Twitter.
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January 5, 2012 at 11:25 am
Which Republican Candidate Should Obama Supporters Be Bankrolling? (Part 2) « Cheap Talk
[…] yet to incorporate Larry Kotlikoff’s candidacy in my world view though I completely endorse Jeff’s fulsome praise. I visited BU Econ a couple of years ago and it has a great “corporate culture” that […]
January 5, 2012 at 11:53 pm
Anonymous
Hey Jeff, Thanks! All best, Larry
January 13, 2012 at 7:44 am
Ross Parker
“He just has this quality that draws people from all sides to his.” – which is just as well, because when the UK’s Independent Commission on Banking didn’t adopt his plan to eliminate banks and replace them with mutual funds, he went ballistic, telling the media that we’d “shamed our country”. If an unwillingness to cope with disagreement and a capacity for hyperbole are things you respect in a leader, you should certainly vote for him.