Why Kenya needs more micro-economists

Kenya, banking and financial companies’ research departments are flooded by finance professional and actuaries jacking the trade. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Early in the year, a friend gave me the book ‘‘Trillion Dollar Economists: How Economists and Their Ideas Have Transformed Business’’ by Robert Litan, one of the leading US economists.

He makes the case for why micro-economists need to be embedded in economies by explaining how they revolutionised the US business sector in the past 50 years, resulting in benefits estimated to be a trillion dollars.

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