Rich Miller published this chart of the economics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which in his view “provides much of the brainpower used to combat the global financial crisis.”
To what extent are they also responsible for creating the global financial crisis in the first place?

you didn’t include the best part! At the bottom was an “extra credit” quiz, to identify six pictures of “younger” incarnations of famous MIT people. I got 3 out of 6, but there is one there (the 4th one) that I didn’t get, that is mind-blowing — who would have guessed that this particular world-famous and enormously powerful figure looked like that when he (and we) were in grad school!!