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Dear EconoDiary,
Sorry I haven’t written recently- it’s hard starting spring semester teaching the day after an 18-hour drive back from Chicago! (In related news, teaching graduate macro is an interesting challenge, to say the least.) Anyway, the conference went quite well, and Jarret and I even managed to put together a somewhat legit [...]
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First, a holiday favorite from last year:
(Fun fact: the other kid in the video will be helping me out at the AEA meeting in Chicago in a couple of weeks, so come say hi!) Second, my mom made a new version of an xmas tree skirt:
See? Economists can be festive even though [...]
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So I tried to get up early this morning for the Nobel announcement, and I succeeded…if by “succeeded” you mean “went to the Nobel web site, muttered ‘heh, interesting’ and then fell back asleep.” The official word is that Thomas Sargent of NYU and Christopher Sims from Princeton have won the 2011 Sveriges Riksbank [...]
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During my fantasy football draft this year, I pointed out that I would totally be better at fantasy economics than I am at fantasy football. (In fairness, I was mainly bitter that I hadn’t really prepared for the draft and got stuck with Tony Romo as my starting quarterback.) It didn’t occur to [...]
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Hey remember when the biggest criticism of academia was that it was all up in its ivory tower and not in touch with the “real” world? Admittedly, that’s not ideal, but I am coming around to the notion that it’s better than some of the alternatives:
A foundation bankrolled by Libertarian businessman Charles G. Koch [...]
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