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Economists who secretly want to be rock stars and rock stars who secretly want to be economists.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on August 10, 2008 at 07:01 AM in Music | Permalink
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rock stars who secretly want to be economists.
Like Bono?
Posted by: at Aug 10, 2008 8:15:23 AM
As to the latter, if the extra money nicked off the tourists goes to Madonna, I will believe that the closed bar Megan McArdle featured recently is still open. What the optimum split of such money between bar staff and manger should be beats me.
Posted by: Diversity at Aug 10, 2008 8:27:19 AM
As to the latter, if the extra money nicked off the tourists goes to Madonna, I will believe that the closed bar Megan McArdle featured recently is still open. What the optimum split of such money between bar staff and manger should be beats me.
Posted by: Diversity at Aug 10, 2008 8:27:32 AM
Don't forget pro athletes who secretly want to be economists:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Answer-Man-Mike-Mussina-talks-New-York-Orioles?urn=mlb,99203
Posted by: Mike Moffatt at Aug 10, 2008 11:10:43 AM
Just think how much higher world welfare could have been if Mick Jagger had completed his degree at the London School of Economics.
His professors thought he had great potential as an economist.
Perhaps Greg Mankiw could have studied under him.
Posted by: a student of economics at Aug 10, 2008 3:09:17 PM
Or Jazz musicians who wanted to be economists, and did be: Such as Alan Greenspan (see Swing to Bop, by Ira Gitler, pages 201, 205).
Or rock guitarists who wanted to be astrophysicists, and did be (Brian May of Queen---I hope his astrophysics is better than his guitar playing).
Posted by: Dr. No at Aug 10, 2008 11:31:32 PM
For those interested in economists as rock star... The Contractions.
http://contractions.marginalq.com/
Posted by: Martin at Aug 12, 2008 12:00:14 PM
