“My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist.”

—  Mart Laar

Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, for 'Freakonomics Radio' podcast (24 March 2010), as published in http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/03/24/freakonomics-radio-what-would-the-world-look-like-if-economists-were-in-charge.

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