Categories
Uncategorized

Alberto Alesina

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 […]

Categories
Uncategorized

Un poeme, comme un specification du regression…

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. […]