Yes, I found it in the end, I found the recording of Levitt’s interview from the 5th of December on Colbert’s show (I was also talking about it here )! I must admit that I thought Levitt was “winning” a few times from Colbert, so no doubt the latter must have been very serious when he said in the end of the talk that he does not want any other winners (aka John Bates Clark medal laureates) in the Colbert Report show.
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Financing college education in USA
Very pertinent recent viewpoints of Gary Becker and Richard Posner on the issue of whether the debt of students to finance their college education is too high, as the new Congress claims (they also blogged about these issues – focusing at that time on commercial vs.
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Steve Levitt is talking about his own very recent experience (and more than that) as guest on the Colbert Report show (unfortunately, I don’t think there’s any way I can see that unless somebody posts a video footage of it somewhere- please let me know if you find anything like that anywhere).
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Alex Nicolin (unde ti-e weblogul?!), un tip foarte simpatic pe care l-am cunoscut recent, fizician cu hobby-uri in fotografie, lingvistica si multe altele, imi trimite mesajul urmator. Recunosc ca are dreptate si ca m-am grabit si imi fac mea culpa si cred ca si altii ar putea invata din asta… Deci chapeau, Alex!
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Without holding either a Nobel, a John Bates Clark, a chair in Economics or even a PhD in Economics for that matter (yet!- working hard to finish my thesis soon), I will adventure to state that I am inclined to agree with the argument put forward in a recent post by Greg Mankiw (which is also Ed Prescotts’s position, but not so much David Card’s).
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