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The Economics Humor Session is the AEA conference's first attempt to inject a little levity into an annual confab that noneconomists might charitably describe as dry. "You can count on one hand all the funny economists in the world," says R. Preston McAfee, a California Institute of Technology economics...
The evening of stand-up comedy is held in a room furnished for the AEA's more traditional meetings: ugly carpeting, stiff conference-room chairs and a screen for PowerPoint presentations. Not exactly the ideal setting, but as an audience member remarks, "This is the Carnegie Hall for economists who...
Despite universal concern over the state of the global economy, few attendees agreed on what should be done to fix it. "It's typical that if you have five economists in the room, you'll get six different opinions," Bauman says, after the show. Nevertheless, the prevailing view by the...
We have to go back, as with so much concerning Bush, to Sept. 11, 2001. After 9/11 the press failed in some big ways. Not everywhere, not everyone and not always. But there was too credulous reporting and cheerleading - from the erroneous WMD speculation to the cable-news screens festooned...
On one of the coldest days of the year, a passenger jet carrying more than 150 people was forced to make a water landing in the frigid Hudson River. US Airways flight 1549, with 150 passengers and five crew members, crashed into waters just west of Manhattan after taking off...