Peter Blair Henry
Peter Blair Henry
Peter Blair Henry, an economist, is the ninth Dean of New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business, and author of TURNAROUND: Third World Lessons for First World Growth. Previously, he was the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Economics at Stanford University...
NationalityJamaican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth30 July 1969
CountryJamaica
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Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.
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I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.
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A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.
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In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
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Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.