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Times Higher Education:
The week in higher education

20 November 2008

He was mocked in the Daily Mail for "stammering" when asked by the Queen, on a royal visit, to explain why no one had foreseen the credit crunch. But Luis Garicano , director of research at the department of management at the London School of Economics, has hit back: "I had no intention of chatting about corgis." In The Guardian on 18 November, he wrote that he had prepared a detailed explanation of the meltdown for the monarch, scotching reports that he had been startled by her question. He added: "The Queen posed a serious question. The answer defines our future."

This article appeared in Times Higher Education on the 20th November 2008.
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Professor Luis Garicanois an Associate of the Productivity and Innovation Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance .
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Productivity and Innovation Programme webpage