Showing posts with label post-Nobel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label post-Nobel. Show all posts
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Goldin arm

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  Here's a great post-Nobel story from the Harvard Gazette. Time to send in Goldin. Sox go with Nobel laureate southpaw to throw out fir...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Nobel prize medals at auction---two for chemistry (1996 and 1966)

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 For charity, to clean up estates of the departed, and for other reasons, Nobel prize medals are sometimes sold at auction.  Here are two re...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Interview with Vernon L. Smith by Sami Al-Suwailem

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 Here's an interview with Vernon Smith, in which he comments on the history of economics and his place in it. Interview with Vernon L. S...
Sunday, September 3, 2023

Protest against political persecution of Prof Muhammad Yunus, and more general threats to democracy in Bangladesh

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  The Bangladesh Daily Star publishes an open letter, and the NY Times provides some general background. Here's the  open letter to Prim...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

IgNobel Prize celebration today: laugh and think

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  I'll be joining an IgNoble event this afternoon at Stanford, everyone is invited. Ig Nobel Prize face-to-face Health Data Science Cent...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Open letters--democracy and academic freedom, in Iran and Turkey

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 Around this time of year I think of the various open letters I sign, from among many that I'm invited to sign.  (I try to avoid signing...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Russian Journalist’s Nobel Medal Sells for $103.5 Million, with proceeds to UNICEF for Ukrainian refugees.

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 The NYT has the story: it exemplifies quite a number of things (including jump bidding in a reserve price charity auction...) Russian Journ...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Happy birthday to Bob Wilson

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  Happy birthday Bob!
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Stanford celebrates Guido Imbens (and natural experiments)

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Here's a nice article about Guido Imbens in the Stanford GSB magazine: An Unexpected Result: How Nobelist Guido Imbens Helped Kick-Start...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Open letter of support for Ukraine from 163 Nobel Laureates

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  Nobel Laureate Support for Ukraine Nobel Letter      English   |   Ukrainian   |   Russian Nobel signatories Personal statement from the D...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

Auction results: Nobel medals of John Nash and Reinhard Selten

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The auction is over, and (unlike in some previous auctions) all of the items sold.  The highest profile items, namely the Nobel medals and ...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Auction of John Nash and Reinhard Selten Nobel medals and memorabilia at Christie's, Oct 25

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Great scholars pass away, and their estates need to put their affairs in order. The auction house Christie's has several lots for sale...