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Invoking economists like Zoltan Pozsar who focus on bank reserves without emphasizing collateral systems represents an incomplete analysis that misses the critical dynamics driving eurodollar system stability.

Academic scholarship on monetary systems largely dried up between the 1980s and 2000s because mainstream economics lost interest in detailed financial system mechanics; the important innovations in eurodollars, derivatives, repo, and securities lending largely went unexplored by academic researchers.

Writing a major book (like McGilchrist's master work) requires years of hard work and disciplined study; originality cannot be achieved without first establishing mastery of the field through sustained analytical work.

Levin's work is largely ignored in biology but has found significant interest among researchers in computation and philosophy who appreciate its challenge to the neurocentric paradigm.

Asness has sent approximately 8 emails in his career to academics or practitioners who failed to cite his work on a particular topic, which he acknowledges is petty but he feels is justified when the citation is clearly warranted.

Science is not done when work remains private; the peer review process is a crucial part of science as conversation in which papers are collectively examined to determine which meet standards of scientific rigor.

The academic community resists acknowledging passive investing as a market problem because it advances 'one funeral at a time'—older thinkers trained in efficient market theory die before new paradigms can take hold, slowing institutional response.

There are few academics who can span from authoritative analysis of scientific data through to big picture thinking and into spirituality, but McGilchrist demonstrates this rare broad intellectual reach.

The Institute is extremely pleased to have Yasheng Huang as a visiting fellow at the Kissinger Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center and as an associate in research at the Fairbank Center.

There are no right-wing conservatives in psychology; the field is overwhelmingly liberal/progressive, which makes psychometric research on gender differences more credible because the researchers who found those differences were biased against finding them.

Most scholars writing about Putin's ideological motivation focus narrowly on specific dimensions rather than on the combination of Orthodox Christianity and imperial history as constitutive of his worldview trajectory