It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

#OTD 1879 Edward Bidwell Wilson b (d 28 Dec 1964) 🇺🇸 @AmStatnews Fellow 1924, @AmStatPresident 1929, Fellow Royal Statistical Society. Best known for the Wilson score interval for binary variables (1927) a method of estimating the interval for a binomial probability. 1/4

Congratulations! When I think about my personal contribution to the science of economics, it's that I persuaded my NES student Anna Mikusheva, an accomplished young mathematician, to apply for a PhD in economics. Finally, she relented - with the proviso that she has apply to one…

Huge congratulations to this year’s winner of Thirsk Prize for Best MSc Dissertation, Niclas Grießhaber, who just presented his innovative work that uses NLP to analyse craft guilds ordinances from New Spain and Peru. #econhist #twitterstorian

Economics in the Rear-view Mirror is happy to announce the induction of Samuel L. Myers, Sr. as the 52nd member of the Economists Wearing Bowties Club. He was a Harvard PhD, his thesis adviser was John Kenneth Galbraith, also a member of the Club. irwincollier.com/economists-wea…

The department head, E. Cary Brown, wrote the annual report of the MIT economics department for 1975-76. It has been transcribed and posted at Economics in the Rear-view Mirror. irwincollier.com/m-i-t-departme…

William Z. Ripley taught one semester on labor and one semester on corporations at Harvard in his courses Econ 9a and 9b. The details of the written assignment and the final exam for his Economics of Corporation in 1906-07 have just been posted. irwincollier.com/harvard-econom…

#OTD 1922 RA Fisher publishes 'On the Mathematical Foundations of Theoretical Statistics'. He first read it to RSS Royal Statistical Society on 17 Nov 1921. It ushered in modern mathematical statistics & marked a seismic shift in statistics which until then lacked a unifying structure. 1/6

A big honor to host Соболь Любовь, one of the leaders of the Russian opposition, at The University of Chicago. Lyubov was articulate, smart, and poised. The UChicago community interested, engaged, and receptive. A difficult moment for all of us, but leaders like this give hope.

I've been distracted by another project. But now I am good to go, supplying more content for Economics in the Rear-view Mirror. Today we go to Harvard, fall semester of 1906. William Z. Ripley's Problems of Labor course. irwincollier.com/harvard-enroll…

The only sensible thing to do with Trump's 'Gettysburg, Wow' speech in Pennsylvania was to make a one-minute documentary film of it. These are all his real words. I added some 'bing bongs' at the start. 'Never fight uphill, me boys! Never fight uphill.' #FunWithPhotoshop

Teaching my first History course this semester has been rewarding but I don’t know what to do with this student

The two have been tied together since the disciples of Robert LeFevre went forth and multiplied.

Happy birthday to Albert Hirschman, who would be 109 today.

Hirschman—anti-fascist, resistance hero, later a development economist—may be the most interesting person to ever take up the profession.

🧵 and blog post on his remarkable life and work.

My interview w Kahneman for my forthc book Conversations on Rational Choice (yes, finally!). He was not happy that I asked him about his views of economics, so the interview turned out to be less about prospect theory than expected but it was a great exp. philpapers.org/archive/HERACW…

When explaining a concept, one of the hardest things to do is remember how you thought about the subject when you first encountered it.

(This is an excerpt from an essay written by William Thurston:)

Just came across an old interview with V. Orval Watts (Harvard PhD, 1932) who was a Thomas Nixon Carver student and a libertarian savant of sorts. So I added a link to my previous post about Watts at Economics in the Rear-view Mirror. irwincollier.com/harvard-econom…