economics Nobel

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:20:05 -0400
>
>I only interviewed him [Stiglitz] formally once, on the radio, but
>the interview was severely truncated because he'd taken a cab from
>Columbia down to Wall Street at 5 PM, and was surprised that it took
>over an hour (the subway would have taken less than half an hour).
>He's the classic absent-minded professor.
>
>Doug

Hmm, Stiglitz's actions there seem more illustrative of hoity-toityness than 
absent-mindedness.  If he'd merely been absent-minded, he would have taken 
the subway and wound up at Far Rockaway or somesuch.  His reflexive 
preference for a cab seems similar to that of many Manhattanites who would 
never mix it up with the mob down in that grotty subway, even if the subway 
gets you where you want to go a lot faster.

Carl

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