About half-way through this article the profile of Haruhiko Kuroda comes in. He is an interesting character; I like this quote:

Kuroda said in a 2006 interview with the IMF that at Oxford he was taught that “although economic theory may provide some insight, some framework, good policies may require something that goes beyond just economy theory or analysis — some practical judgment, some good sense.”

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