Was Paul Krugman the best student in his cohort at MIT?

I was in the MIT class the year behind Paul and Olivier. My class included Ben Bernanke and Ken Rogoff. Obviously Paul and Olivier were both exceptional students. Olivier was our TA for macro an…

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