Yay (Now "they" know who "we" are)
Thank you, GMU men's basketball team.
UPDATE: The Chicago Tribune has an article today focused on the university, the first I've seen that names George Mason's two Nobel Prize-winning economists. :)
UPDATE: Pete Boettke and Alex Tabarrok have gotten a piece published at Slate about the "entrepreneurial" similarity between GMU's hoops recruiting and economics-department hiring.
UPDATE: Features on the GMU economics department have appeared in the Washington Post and Philadelphia Inquirer.
LAST UPDATE: And the ultimate pop-culture acknowledgement: The Onion!
We are experiancing an excess rent. This is quite an experiance. How much
should we update our future expectations given an event like this? What
are the externalities of a sport team winning? We will see. Hopefully
increase application will drive the quality of study here higher than ever
before (is it odd to hope that acedemic sucess will come from this?).
This is a concern I expressed before to Jason: what is the P(Micro will be
cancelled next Monday)? I would suspect, not very good, considering the
prof (who will remain nameless).
I have identified the shiny object for the week, and
it is "us".
I am a patriot, I love the constitution, locke, hume, some french guy. I
am a green fuzzy muppet with a three pointed hat.