The first celebrity economist was the prime minister’s ‘influencer.’
Justin Trudeau, an open admirer of China’s “basic dictatorship,” has now given way to Mark Carney. The new prime minister’s mentor will be of interest on both sides of the border.
Mark Carney earned a scholarship to Harvard, where he studied economics under John Kenneth Galbraith. Born in Ontario in 1908, Galbraith moved to the United States in the 1930s, earned a PhD in economics at UC Berkeley, and during WWII President Roosevelt tapped him to lead the Office of Price Administration. In 1949 the Canadian transplant became a professor at Harvard.
