by Mark Thoma, University of Oregon (Department of Economics)

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Random Notes

Posted on April 29, 2008

A few quick notes from theMilken Institute Global Conference: The president would not understand dynamic evolutionary stochastic processes, From A Discussion with Nobel Laureates in Economics, Gary Becker, Edmund Phelps, Myron Scholes, and Michael Spence, Moderator: Michael Milken.As I was riding down the elevator this morning, the car stopped and Muhammad Yunus got on. I said hi. He said hi back.In a lunchtime quiz, 45% of the people in the audience thought the very first Nobel prize in economics went to Hayek.When Steve Forbes used the words flat tax, some people in the audience began a...

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