And there seems to be an unbroken trend as the developments over the past couple of months have shown: Lars Svensson became a member of the Executive Board of the Swedish Riksbank only a week ago and Athanasios Orphanides is the new Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus.
Sending academics to politics clearly solves a problem inherent in academic policy advice: getting the message across to do the right thing. Policy makers and their academic advisors typically face different problems. The question is: Is the ivory tower not managing to get its message across in clear and accessible terms?