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A meeting of minds over cocktails

Appropriately for someone who is presenting himself as a global chancellor, Gordon Brown had drinks in New York last night with a roomful of world class economists.

Appropriately for someone who is presenting himself as a global chancellor, Gordon Brown had drinks in New York last night with a roomful of world class economists. Among their number were Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, two Nobel prize winners.