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The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners – they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public’s attention to important work in economics.

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April 26, 2024

I choose questions to work on according to how much they excite me.

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I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey.

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