For context on coauthors , Janet Yellen is the former Fed chair. George Akerlof is a Nobel Prize winning economist and Yellen’s husband. They have one son, who is also an economist.
It's also striking how they basically just go out and grab onto the third rail with their bare hands. Yes, they try to be dispassionate, but it's amazing that Janet Yellen was willing to go out on a limb and write publicly about these topics at all.