I’ll be less active with blogging these days since I am attending the Society of Labor Economists annual meeting (at Columbia University this year). I’ll present this (preliminary and incomplete; comments very welcome; check my website periodically for updated future versions). For the rest, the Big Apple still impresses me, though I’ve paid a lot on taxis already :-).
Long PS. Yesterday, completely not linked to the conference above (actually he did not know about it), I met, was introduced to, and exchanged a few impressions with Bob Solow and his wife, at a welcome party organized by Niels, who also happens to be one of my co-authors for the paper linked above. And a brief, fast opinion: Solow is a super nice guy, far more humble when compared to all the Nobel prizers I previously met and always eager to open new subjects of conversation –and no, it wasn’t so much about economics, if that is what you think :-). So my NY experience didn’t start too bad. BTW, if you didn’t read Solow’s work (which also, obviously, means that you are not an economist…), retain at least that I’ve been using his quote related to Milton Friedman quite a lot, most recently in an “economics-popularization” presentation I gave last year in Copenhagen (read about that event here, check out the presentation here, both in Romanian however) :-).
