The “banana incident,” as economist Alfred Kahn called it, occurred during his term as adviser to US President Jimmy Carter on inflation in the late 1970s.
Kahn, an irreverent academic corralled into the political world, was told off by Carter’s policy adviser Stuart Eizenstat for warning
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