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For those keeping score at home, here are the dopes who signed the letter:

George A. Akerlof, Professor, Georgetown University

Sir Angus Deaton, Professor, Princeton University

Peter Diamond, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert Engle, Professor Emeritus and Co-Director of the Volatility and Risk Institute, New York University

Oliver Hart, Professor, Harvard University

Daniel Kahneman, Professor, Princeton University

Eric S. Maskin, Professor, Harvard University

Daniel McFadden, Professor, University of California, Berkley

Paul Milgrom, Professor, Stanford University

Roger Myerson, Professor, University of Chicago

Edmund S. Phelps, Professor and Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University

Paul Romer, Professor, New York University

William Sharpe, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

Robert Shiller, Professor, Yale University

Christopher Sims, Professor, Princeton University

Robert Solow, Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joseph Stiglitz, Professor, Columbia University