On May 31, a towering figure in macroeconomics, Stanley Fischer, died at his home in Massachusetts in the U.S. at the age of 81. A few colleagues who knew I had studied under Fischer passed on the news. It was difficult for me to process the grief, as memories of nearly two decades of learning from him, knowing him, and interacting with him came flooding back.
I wondered how Fischer would summarize his legendary life. Perhaps, in his mind, the most meaningful aspect was his spirit of engaging with the world and serving it by integrating Keynesian theory with practice.
