The late Jerry Goodman wrote about his experience receiving the bicentennial Invisible Hand Award at a roast sponsored by the Graduate Students of the MIT economics department. His ghost-writers were Paul Krugman and Irwin Collier (JFK-Institute), whom he refers to as the Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner of advanced and arcane economics. If the shoe fits…
https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/the-invisible-hand-award/
Needless to say, graduate school was not just fun and games.
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