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France’s Esther Duflo, a star economist who was once named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, has been nominated by US President Barack Obama to help shape US global development policy.

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Duflo, who was raised in a “left-leaning Protestant” family, said she became aware of economic divides and social injustice at a very early age.

“I was always conscientious of the gap between my existence and that of the world’s poor,” she told weekly French magazine l’Express in a January, 2011 article. “As a child, I was extremely troubled by the complete randomness of chance that I was born in Paris to an intellectual, middle class family, when I could have just as easily been born in Chad. It’s a question of luck. It inspired in me a sense of responsibility.”

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“As a child, I was extremely troubled by the complete randomness of chance that I was born in Paris to an intellectual, middle class family, when I could have just as easily been born in Chad. It’s a question of luck. It inspired in me a sense of responsibility.”

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Seriously--he couldn't find a single American economist left-leaning enough for him with a little star power? I see these guys yammering all the time on CNN, FOX, even NPR. Why bring in someone who needs a green card? Is she just trying to escape France's onerous taxes like that homely actor who went to Russia?

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Europeans are intelligent and stuff

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she became aware of economic divides and social injustice at a very early age

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I was extremely troubled by the complete randomness of chance

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It’s a question of luck. It inspired in me a sense of responsibility

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C'mon man. She's a professor at MIT and she's been living in the US for a while now. 

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She is a typical Obama hire: She's a socialist academic with not a single day of real-world, earn-your-keep, business experience.

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Stop spouting off talking points. Debate her actual positions/theories/policies.

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She is a fricking socialist! Once we all agree on that, I don't give a shite about any other of her positions/theories/policies.

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. “As a child, I was extremely troubled by the complete randomness of chance that I was born in Paris to an intellectual, middle class family, when I could have just as easily been born in Chad. It’s a question of luck. It inspired in me a sense of responsibility.”

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C'mon man. She's a professor at MIT and she's been living in the US for a while now.

Yall are always talking about how dumb liberals are. Great, but you should probably learn how to use Google first.

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