Tag: economists

Alberto Alesina

Post author By Eric Rasmusen
Post date May 31, 2020

Notes from his memorial service on Saturday, May 30. “My only task was to read him his email once a day.”RA. Shleifer. Alesina didn’t care about he theory, or the statistics– he cared about the truth. Note: thsi si contrary to the idea that we are too mathy in economics these days. He ws good […]

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Un poeme, comme un specification du regression…

Post author By Eric Rasmusen
Post date May 20, 2020

I think I’ll start a post/page for poetry. Did you know that econometricians, too, have the spirit of verse within them? Cf. Arthur Lewbel, my Sloan classmate of MIT days: Our paper was under review, Date is 6 months past due, At last, report’s here, And we started to cheer, Until we read referee two. […]

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