Joe Harrington's Stuff

 
Links
 
• My sister Jane's books:
  
  
• To see my daughter Grace in the Baltimore Sun's Travel Section, click here (go to the story with the picture)
• Free ride on the RAND Journal of Economics' IO Links
• Dimitri Bertsekas' Ten Simple Rules for Mathematical Writing
• See Industrial Organization in action DOJ's Antitrust Division
• Wander through your own Art Museum
• Care to travel to outer space? Pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope

 
Things to Make an Economist Laugh


 
• Stigler on the Economics of Scholarly Advice. The comments of George Stigler on a review article by Paul Joskow and Roger Noll: "Joskow and Noll are good enough to devote the last third of their pages to telling us what to work on in the future. On its face this is extraordinarily self-sacrificial behavior: Promising ideas are all that even a rich scholar possesses, and here they are giving away their wealth. Or can it be that these proposed lines of research are not worth their time, but are perhaps worth ours? Rather than pursue the economics of scholarly advice, let me simply say that I have always thought that revealed preference is the only reliable guide to what a scholar believes to be fruitful research problems: If he doesn't work on them, he provides no reason for us to do so." (Studies in Public Regulation, Gary Fromm, ed., 1981, p. 76)

 
• A Dismal Cocktail Party

 

 
Desirable Distractions
 
Cordes-sur-Ciel (France)
 

 
Barcelona (Spain)
 

 
Tossa de Mar (Costa Brava, Spain)
 
 
Aix-en-Provence (France)
 
 
 
Lisbon (Portugal) (photo courtesy of Will Chang)
 
 

Bergen (Norway)

Gamla Stan (Stockholm, Sweden)