Economists as Politicians

Simeon Djankov has recently been appointed as Minister of Finance of Bulgaria. More economists who have a track record of high quality publications in good academic journals and have been appointed to various policy positions can be found on the CEPR website (http://www.cepr.org/default_static.htm)

and in this article (especially p 5)

http://www.eco.uc3m.es/iue/reformadelauniversidad/3.pdf

When will Ukraine follow this example? If needed, I can recommend some of my KSE colleages and KSE graduates (http://www.kse.org.ua/people.htm)!