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Susan Athey is the new winner of the John Bates Clark Medal. I had her on my potential list of winners, of course, but I really put Ed Glaeser highest on that list since he was at the age limit of the candidates for the medal (40), while Susan Athey could have also been nominated in 2 years from now, in principle.
Category: Colbert
Hot Stephen Colbert and cool QJE
These days are very busy, but I can’t pass on this one. Stephen Colbert has the best comic moment of the months! Among other things, he is so hot that he was on the cover of the Quarterly Journal of Economics (that’s the best part of the clip :-), Greg Mankiw rightly picks on that part) but, particularly, even Paulina Porizkova admits that – now, is there anything else to desire ?
→ Read more Levitt (and Krugman) on the Colbert Report: the video(s)
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.
→ Read more Test on the 10 Commandments
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).
→ Read more Steven Colbert at Harvard
Via Greg Mankiw’s blog: a great video of a very recent interview (1st of Dec) with Steven Colbert at the Kennedy School of Government. It starts after about 4 minutes of Colbert intro clips.
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