a: economics ~
b: dentistry

What:

"Well, let me say, it's been an interesting experience overall," Bernanke replied after a long pregnant pause. "Keynes once said that economics should aspire to be as useful as dentistry. And what he meant by that was that economics is not a subject, which should be studied in an ivory tower.


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Writer: Ben Bernanke
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Date: Jul 26 2016 6:32 PM


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