It might not be a ‘real’ Nobel, but it’s real enough where it counts.

[ via J. Bradford Delong ] Folks will quibble about the Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded by the Central Bank of Sweden, not being a real Nobel. But the 1999 winner, Robert Mundell, appeared on Letterman to let us know how it improved his life:

Any meaningless crap I say, the next day it’s in the Wall Street Journal

Damn, you normally have to be in Government to get that perk.

It’s the dismal science, not the boring science.

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