| Headline: A challenger of the received wisdom Source: Euromoney Date: September 2000 Author: James Smalhout Financial talent is hard to come by these days, as any headhunter will confirm. And it can be even more difficult to keep. Case in point: Ricardo Hausmann, until recently the Inter-American Development Bank’s chief economist. Hausmann joins the Harvard faculty this month. But don’t expect him to be saying many good-byes. The international financial community seems bound to hear quite a bit more from this dynamic player. Hausmann shared some of his characteristic all-or-nothing views with Euromoney’s James Smalhout as he was packing his bags for Cambridge Hausmann, a Venezuelan, is planning a very different public presence after leaving the IDB. He’s deeply worried about events in his country, where he once was the minister of planning, and wants to speak about them publicly in ways that aren’t possible at one of the multilateral development banks.
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