That, at least, is what New York Magazine calls it.
Freakonomics at Columbia University?
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Columbia and all the other schools are probably just being used to get the 61 year old extra remueration from Chicago.
Wow, I had thought, judging from how Dr. Levitt has refused to comment further on the controversy over his racial eugenics theory of abortion after he got nailed by commenters on this blogging for distorting the implications of his theory, that the poor man was being held incommunicado in a mineshaft in Alaska.
But, no, it turns out he’s commenting away on this trivial story, while trying to hide out from the Bill Bennett Brouhaha until it blows over.
Man, that’s bravery!
I assume the 61 year old Nobel Prize winner the story refers to is Jim Heckman. Is he any worse that anyone else at UofC? Chicago Economics is often called a blood sport. Does Columbia expect to get a top rank department by coddling its prize recruits instead of making demands on them?
Chicago economics is a meritocracy. But that doesn’t mean you want people who make unreasonable demands on their graduate students e.g. delay their graduation to get a few more years of research assistance out of them.
I see lots of germanic names on the list. Germans are the largest ethnicity in America. Scary.
I like how the article referred to a 61 year-old recent Nobel prize winner from the U of C without naming him. As if there are dozens of them.
There is an obvious candidate/suspect/whatever, but given the way the U of C likes to claim Nobel Prize winners, maybe there is more than one person who fits that description. There was a hilarious article in the April 1, 1984 Chicago Maroon on just this subject. (There may have been others since then, but I haven’t seen the Maroon since 1984.)
I think it’s time that someone looked into getting royalties on the use of the word “Freakonomics”.
I should have become an economics professor instead of having dropped out of grad school with my masters and my MBD (most but dissertation).