Dr. Robert Johnson serves as President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and is one of the most renowned economists globally. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Soros Fund Management where he managed a global currency, bond, and equity portfolio specializing in emerging markets.

Robert Johnson was an Executive Producer of the Oscar winning documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, directed by Alex Gibney, and is the former President of the National Scholastic Chess Foundation. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of both the Economic Policy Institute and the Campaign for America’s Future. He received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Princeton University and a B.S. in both Electrical Engineering and Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In this episode, we discuss Dr. Johnson's journey with economics, his favorite economics class at Princeton, history's importance in economics, why he founded INET, and his advice for all young economists.