Comments on: good on ya, san francisco http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2006/09/14/good-on-ya-san-francisco/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=good-on-ya-san-francisco infinite spew Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:21:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Randy http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2006/09/14/good-on-ya-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-3006 Randy Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:13:22 +0000 http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2006/09/14/good-on-ya-san-francisco/#comment-3006 Freakonomics was a great read (quick read too for those short-attention-spanners like myself) Also a funny anecdote from my wife's PhD commencement at U of Chicago a few weaks ago by one of Leavitt's contemporaries in the field of economics: "One of the world's most famous economists would look in the mirror every morning and give himself a D. He thought he was doing pretty good since he gave the rest of the world an F." Freakonomics was a great read (quick read too for those short-attention-spanners like myself)

Also a funny anecdote from my wife’s PhD commencement at U of Chicago a few weaks ago by one of Leavitt’s contemporaries in the field of economics: “One of the world’s most famous economists would look in the mirror every morning and give himself a D. He thought he was doing pretty good since he gave the rest of the world an F.”

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