It’s been a bad year for the University of Chicago Economics Department. And I’m not just talking about Alan Greenspan’s remark to Congress that he “made a mistake” about the ability of markets to self-regulate themselves. I’m talking hard, cold, quantifiable facts: Neither themost recent Nobel prize for economics nor the John Bates Clark award given to the best economist under the age of forty went to a card-carrying member of the “Chicago School.” For any other economics department, missing out on the big prizes wouldn’t be such a big deal. You can’t win ‘em all, you know; any economist knows that down to the marrow of his or her … Continue reading Andrew Leonard