I’ve neglected this blog long enough! Here is a photo I took at the Morris Arboretum on Saturday. It is from the Garden Railway area. The holly is in sharp detail, with the wooden replica of the Falling Water house by Frank Lloyd Wright in the background. The Garden Railway area has many such replicas of famous buildings, all done very well.
This was a well-deserved award to Angus Deaton. As usual in the last few years, Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok have timely, well-written explanations of the award. In the spirit of specialization, I refer you to them, where you will also find links to many other sources.
Tyler Cowen’s write-up; Alex Tabarrok’s write-up.
ADDED 2015-10-14: The Economist has a very good write-up, too.
On Friday, October 9, Temple University had its annual Gallery of Success awards ceremony, as part of homecoming weekend. This year the awardees included Dr. Jeffrey S. Coons, who was my first Ph.D. student at Temple University.
Jeff gave a very generous donation to the Economics Department at Temple University a few months ago. You can read a bit more about this on this page, along with a brief synopsis of Jeff’s career since leaving Temple.
I am grateful to Jeff for his generosity to my department and its graduate students and his recognition of my work in helping him succeed in his doctoral studies. I was delighted to be able to attend the Gallery of Success event and applaud Jeff and all the other awardees for their impressive achievements.
A quick little post from me with something funny and on-point about how professors are, and should be, addressed on campus.
— Shit Academics Say (@AcademicsSay) October 5, 2015
From our porch, just as the previous one.
I’m working from home today. At lunch break time, I checked out the view from the porch.
The curious incident of DD on the Web 