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James Kwak
writer, The Baseline Scenario
James Kwak is currently a student at the Yale Law School. Previously, he was a management consultant at McKinsey and Company and co-founder of a successful software company. James received an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard College and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He is coauthor, with Simon Johnson, of *The Baseline Scenario*, a leading economic blog.