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Orley Ashenfelter, a professor of economics at Princeton University, a former president of the American Economic Association and an editor-in-chief of the American Economic Review. He was one of the first to use natural experiments in economics years ago, which up until then had been used exclusively in natural sciences. What does one of the world’s most prominent academic economists think about the world economic situation? How has the role of economic research for top US government changed? How does he research the international Big Mac Index? And how did his analysis of the prices and quality of French wine get on the first page of New York Times? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…on-university/