# Professor Pankaj Ghemawat is interviewed about Catalonia's independence from Spain

1 Faculty News October 5, 2017 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg192x144.jpg?itok=yV529lwz)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-05/anatomy-of-a-bad-marriage) -- "But the violence that marred the Oct. 1 vote has focused Catalans’ minds on issues other than euros. 'At some point the economic considerations start to be irrelevant and identity becomes paramount,' says [Ghemawat](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/pankaj-ghemawat). On Oct. 1, he says, 'we took a giant step in that direction.'"

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