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Muppets in MoscowBook

by Natasha Lance Rogoff

Who uses, recommends or left Muppets in Moscow, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Rogoff is a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a professor of economics at Harvard University.
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Well, I have uh I have a few books to recommend, but I have to start out with my wife's book, Muppets in Moscow, which I've given you as a present about the making of Sesame Street in the 1990s, which she oversaw hundreds of uh artists uh the making of it in Russia. making of it in Russian original version in Russian and overseeing uh directors uh puppeteers uh writers and such and it's a uh an period of uh tremendous instability.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Trump vs. the Dollar” (https://nytimes.com/2025/05/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kenneth-rogoff.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

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