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Chicago Booth Review: Should nationality figure into eurozone leadership choices?
5 July 2019
Nicholas Bloom of Stanford made an analogy with a quite different arena: "Barcelona does not pick its team based on being born in Barcelona—if it did it would not win anything. The ECB should also pick the best." So too did John Van Reenen of MIT: "See family firms work: choosing leaders based on connections rather than talent generally leads to disaster."