Why techies should work with economists

Firms in the Silicon Savannah are just flying blind without economists. file photo | nmg

Two weeks ago, I wrote about why Kenya needs more micro-economists premised on the book “Trillion Dollar Economists: How Economists and Their Ideas Have Transformed Business” by leading economist Robert Litan.

Following through the responses, the most recurring question out of the article was how many economists Kenya has? In a few weeks’ time, I will try and put that estimate out more particularly the number of practising economists in Kenya’s public sector.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.