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<p><a href="http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2007.12.23/295.html">What is Better Than Beating the Yankees</a>?</p>
I didn't want to just post this in the headlines thread, because Professor Case deserves his own thread. I know many here are fans of Shiller, but his work may not be what it is today without his friend and colleague.
"Earlier this month, the Lincoln Land Institute hosted a two-day meeting in Cambridge to produce a conference volume in honor of Case, now 61. Big shots presided, among them Quigley of Berkeley, and Edward Glaeser and Dale Jorgenson, of Harvard. Dozens of friends and former students turned up. Buzz about the subprime crisis filled the breaks.
<p>The final dinner was a particularly warm occasion. Sharon Oster, Ray Fair and Robert Shiller spoke. Hermann “Dutch” Leonard sang. Edward Lazear, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, spoke. Austan Goolsbee recalled Case’s practical jokes. At the end of the long evening, Case returned it all in kind. He didn’t mention the slowly-advancing Parkinson’s Disease that had dogged him for seventeen years. “I’m not going anywhere,” he told the audience.</p>
<p>For all the pleasure of the evening, the real climax of the conference had come earlier in the day, when Case’s friend Brown (who for many years had been the Lincoln Institute’s president), brought the final session to its feet when he sought to convey the character of his friend with some lines from Walt Whitman:</p>
<p><em>I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise;</em><em> Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,</em>
<em>Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,</em>
<em>Stuff’d with the stuff that is coarse,</em>
<em>and stuff’d with the stuff that is fine;</em></p>
<p><em>A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfullest;</em>
<em>A novice beginning, yet an experient of myriads of seasons;</em>
<em>Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion</em>
<em>A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker
A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician, priest.…</em></p>
<p><em>I resist anything better than my own diversity
breathe the air, but leave plenty after me,
And am not stuck up, and am in my place.</em></p>
<p>What’s better than beating the Yankees? Maybe that."</p>
I didn't want to just post this in the headlines thread, because Professor Case deserves his own thread. I know many here are fans of Shiller, but his work may not be what it is today without his friend and colleague.
"Earlier this month, the Lincoln Land Institute hosted a two-day meeting in Cambridge to produce a conference volume in honor of Case, now 61. Big shots presided, among them Quigley of Berkeley, and Edward Glaeser and Dale Jorgenson, of Harvard. Dozens of friends and former students turned up. Buzz about the subprime crisis filled the breaks.
<p>The final dinner was a particularly warm occasion. Sharon Oster, Ray Fair and Robert Shiller spoke. Hermann “Dutch” Leonard sang. Edward Lazear, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, spoke. Austan Goolsbee recalled Case’s practical jokes. At the end of the long evening, Case returned it all in kind. He didn’t mention the slowly-advancing Parkinson’s Disease that had dogged him for seventeen years. “I’m not going anywhere,” he told the audience.</p>
<p>For all the pleasure of the evening, the real climax of the conference had come earlier in the day, when Case’s friend Brown (who for many years had been the Lincoln Institute’s president), brought the final session to its feet when he sought to convey the character of his friend with some lines from Walt Whitman:</p>
<p><em>I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise;</em><em> Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,</em>
<em>Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,</em>
<em>Stuff’d with the stuff that is coarse,</em>
<em>and stuff’d with the stuff that is fine;</em></p>
<p><em>A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfullest;</em>
<em>A novice beginning, yet an experient of myriads of seasons;</em>
<em>Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion</em>
<em>A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker
A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician, priest.…</em></p>
<p><em>I resist anything better than my own diversity
breathe the air, but leave plenty after me,
And am not stuck up, and am in my place.</em></p>
<p>What’s better than beating the Yankees? Maybe that."</p>