Endearingly egocentric comment of the week
Jagdish Bhagwati, an economics professor at Columbia, on the awarding of the Nobel in economic science to Paul Krugman, of Princeton:
According to this economist, lots of people think this economist should have won the Nobel
Lots of people are saying to me, "Why didn't you get it?" Given the fact that I didn't get it, this is the next best thing.
According to this economist, lots of people think this economist should have won the Nobel