On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Allin Cottrell wrote:

On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:

So the Nobel prize goes to a guy from Edinburgh who's lived in America for quite a few years; this time, the wrong one, though. Oh, well :)

;-)

Angus Deaton sems like a good choice. Nice to see a "data person" get it.

Indeed.

Amazing, isn't it? From Have I Got News For You to Noble Laureate in 25 years. Amazing.

What's that, Skippy? That's Angus Deayton, not Angus Deaton?

Oh well, bugger that...

"My colleagues in the social sciences talk a great deal about methodology. I prefer to call it style." -- Freeman J. Dyson