Meet the Economist Leading Germany’s Battle Against Debt (original) (raw)

Lars Feld doesn’t come off as a hardliner.

He has a kind voice, a soft handshake, a gentle smile. A stud shimmers on his left ear. In his office at the Walter Eucken Institute, an economic think tank in the western German city of Freiburg, piles of manuscripts and case studies cover half of the room; bookshelves extend up to the ceiling, an unadorned desk sits by the window.