tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post6879349460850542442..comments2023-04-16T13:03:08.852+02:00Comments on Déjà vu - down memory lane in California: FIAT LUX?Emil Emshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07815643585218883358noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-66918889619625193082011-01-07T01:02:50.226+01:002011-01-07T01:02:50.226+01:00Lieber Emil!
Eine wirklich beeindruckende Geschich...Lieber Emil!<br />Eine wirklich beeindruckende Geschichte; aktiver Professor mit 80…wenn man die Gesundheit hat eine gute Sache. Habe mehrere Juristen in Wien gekannt, die sich mit 80 ebenfalls noch aktiv bei der Akademie der Wissenschaften eingebracht haben, auch mit Vorträgen und Diskussionsbeiträgen, von denen so manch jüngerer Professor noch etwas lernen konnte. Es waren Menschen bei denen Beruf und Berufung Hand in Hand gingen.<br /> <br />Ich wünsche uns auch noch so viel Energie bis ins hohe Alter.<br /> <br />Auch mein Vater hat übrigens noch jahrelang nach seiner Emeritierung publiziert und Dissertanten betreut (er war Geologe und wurde leider nicht 80).<br /> <br />Viele Grüße,<br />IngridAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-5831647011891851862010-06-25T01:34:29.257+02:002010-06-25T01:34:29.257+02:00Emil, I'm glad you were finally able to meet w...Emil, I'm glad you were finally able to meet with Professor Marschak. And thank you for the donation! Your blog is very well-written, and your experiences at Berkeley have been fun to read.Brian Collinsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-80386910722447809532010-06-06T18:31:42.895+02:002010-06-06T18:31:42.895+02:00Dear Roland,
I am immensely pleased to see you amo...Dear Roland,<br />I am immensely pleased to see you among the illuster commentators to this blog posting, in particular, since you are among the main originators of it all! As to charisma, in my humble opinion, you need not stand back to anyone, with your cool appearance of man of the plains, coupled with endless energy to enrich the realm of applied regional economics!Emil Emshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07815643585218883358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-68152490994542518862010-06-06T18:18:52.347+02:002010-06-06T18:18:52.347+02:00Dear Emil.
I did not remember that I was the one w...Dear Emil.<br />I did not remember that I was the one who recommended you to spend your post doctoral time in Berkeley. But from the description of your sentimental journey you must have spent a good time there as well as the time you have spent there recently and I am glad for that. And nearly all your teachers have become Nobel Prizers! So the class of the teaching that you received could not have been better.<br /><br />During my stay 1972-73 I was also taught by Daniel MacFadden, at that time a young man. I met him several years later when he had become a Nobel Prizer. He did not recognize me as your teachers did with you. But you are a more carismatic person than I am, so that was not so curious. I had also William Alonso as one of my teachers. But my main teachers were Roland Artle and Pravin Varaiya, since my topic at that time was Urban Economics and it was wonderful to have such teachers and mentors in my research.<br /><br />Since that time now nearly forty years ago I have visited Berkeley a dozen times. During the last ten years I have had a close collaboration with John Quigley at Haas Business School together with Mats Wilhelmsson, a former PhD student of mine, now a Full Professor at KTH. So, I have been working as Visiting Professor in this quite ugly building. Together we have written several papers about the effects of universities on the Swedish regions patents and productivity. Our last paper on this topic was published in Journal of Urban Economics last year. Maybe you have read some of our more popular articles about our results in Ekonomisk Debatt. A summarizing article about our research journey will be published in Ekonomisk Debatt in the autumn.<br /><br />I have still a close contact with my former teacher and mentor Roland Artle. I consider him as the incarnation of the concept of a real gentleman. Unfortunately he has now got skin cancer in his head and was operated for that. With his grim humor he described the operation as if he was scalped like by Indians, as they used to do with their enemies. Hopefully he will make it. I cross my fingers.<br /><br />Emil, I have admired your excellent photographs by which you have illustrated all your blogs and also for your patience to write all these blogs for us. Thank you!<br /><br />Your collegue Roland AnderssonRoland Anderssonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-42712029007479925162010-05-31T00:05:59.953+02:002010-05-31T00:05:59.953+02:00Hey, Emil,
Just a note to let you know that, altho...Hey, Emil,<br />Just a note to let you know that, although I was not a part of the California experiences you blog about, I'm finding it all fascinating.Lorenzo Brownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-82416852142934743562010-05-27T18:57:50.232+02:002010-05-27T18:57:50.232+02:00Dear Emil,
I liked to read about your academic ac...Dear Emil, <br />I liked to read about your academic achievements at Berkeley, and especially your meeting with Thomas Marschak. Thank you for forwarding his regards to me, but frankly, I wonder whether he remembers me. We talked at most 30 minutes, probably around 20 only, but the topic of our talk was nice and positive, namely you. I remember him as a soft-spoken, even a little bit shy perhaps, thoroughly intellectual person. <br /><br />You say you discussed the role of the new information techniques in increasing productivity. Remember what Robert Solow said about a dozen years ago? He was mystified by the fact that all this investment and all these efforts devoted to computerization, internet, etc. did not show up in productivity statistics. Perhaps they do now. Or have they just prevented a productivity decline that would have occurred otherwise? Emil, please go on like you do, and write your full memoirs when you are back.Lars Werinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-67438692929090962952010-05-26T21:22:50.428+02:002010-05-26T21:22:50.428+02:00Well, I did not make it all the way to Berkeley. P...Well, I did not make it all the way to Berkeley. Princeton was my great experience. Good reasons why, I hardly remember. Peter Bohm knew Baumol, and Mark Sharefkin knew Sonnenschein, so that made a couple of letters of recommendation.<br />Nevertheless, my stay there became fantastic by accidents. The main one being that Joe Stiglitz owed a lot of teaching, and had decided to do it all during my stay there. That made a very good introduction to the economics of assymetric information. Nothing that important has ever happened to me. <br />So you went to the US to learn that stuff, I just stumbled on it.kari_lanttohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948494087986287320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-26765277879787604182010-05-26T17:36:17.598+02:002010-05-26T17:36:17.598+02:00I am extremely pleased to see such a comprehensive...I am extremely pleased to see such a comprehensive group of illuster commentators this time.<br /><br />Dear Kari,<br />I am glad that I may have made a small contribution to your urge to go to Berkeley. I hope you enjoyed your stay here as much as I did then and do again now.<br /><br />Dear Per,<br />Thank you kindly for recalling, for our benefit, the clear intellect that can reside in a mature person, such as, yourself, Lars, myself and, above all, Pavel.<br /><br />Dear Pavel,<br />I am very pleased to hear that things are going well for you, research-wise and that you can keep the flame burning, whilst the rest of us are already looking forward to, if not enjoying, a well-earned retirement. <br />I have re-invented myself as (Gentleman) photographer and travel journalist and my current base is Stockholm.<br /><br />Dear Eva,<br />I am as pleased as you are, that we seem to have a virtual re-union of like spirits here on this blog. <br /><br />Dear Randall,<br />I am humbled by your kind words about my photography, the more pleasing since they come from a fellow artisan, and a highly experienced professional in the field at that!<br /><br />Dear Paco,<br />Welcome to the Community of blog commentators! You are only the second of my former colleagues from the Commission to respond, and I am looking forward to other colleagues to join the party. <br /><br />Unfortunately, my knowledge of the Austrian School is too limited to respond in a sensible way to your excellent exposé of its short-comings. The only piece of thinking I am retaining from this August Club is the Theory of Over-Investing, due to keeping the rate of interest below the "natural" rate. It seems that this theory provides an apt explanation for the run-up to the current global crisis, as it did for the run-up to the Great Depression. I am not sure, however, what conclusions to draw from this in terms of economic policy to pursue at present. After all, I am not a Nobel Laureate, as my honored countryman von Hayek. If he would still be alive, he certainly would be able to come up with an appropriate answer.Emil Emshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07815643585218883358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-57666044565138085572010-05-26T12:13:43.169+02:002010-05-26T12:13:43.169+02:00Dear Emil
I am forwarding your e-links to my son J...Dear Emil<br />I am forwarding your e-links to my son Jose who is a prospective graduate student at UCB. <br />As the main funding source of this educational endeavour, I just hope he goes a bit faster in completing his PhD than other former UCB students (and you know what I mean).<br />I have been thinking a lot about you recently because I have taken a crash course on Austrian Economics.<br />It is amazing how economists, including the Austrians could be brilliant and silly at the same time. The most surprising thing is that neo-Austrians insist in defending those aspects of Austrian economics that jsut do not work. Marx talked about the fetishism of commodities but in economics we also have fetishists among theories who mix up instruments (secondary stuff)and ideas (important stuff). Any way, Austrians are not the only ones.<br />Best regards and enjoy the time you got left in CA.<br />PacoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-643103829778918612010-05-25T07:02:32.115+02:002010-05-25T07:02:32.115+02:00Emil
I am finally getting around to looking at you...Emil<br />I am finally getting around to looking at your blog. You are an extremely accomplished photographer, and I enjoyed the photos of Stanford (where I earned an MA) and UC Berkeley (where I earned a BA) very much. Stanford architecture is easy to shoot because of its marvelous symmetry, but not easy to shoot well, which depends on how one uses the light, which you do very well. You've captured the beauty of Cal, too. It was interesting to learn of your past associations at Berkeley. <br /> <br />All the best in your interesting project. <br /> <br />RandallRandall Morgannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-74570327537880861762010-05-25T04:11:47.838+02:002010-05-25T04:11:47.838+02:00Well I am so happy to see all these comments and t...Well I am so happy to see all these comments and that you Pavel are doing so well. And you sure have planted some very important thoughts in my thinking, and that stuck. Cannot wait to see you on Nybrogatan again this summer. <br />Emil, see these blogs these blogs they have all sorts of funny consequences dont they. Marschak the older and Roy Radner's work on Teams did inspire my thesis, and I have one very important citation from them in my PhD thesis despite the fact that I am a sociologist. <br />cheers to everyone<br /><br />EvaEva Meyersson Milgromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12804749811996648209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-67808228137772051922010-05-25T03:06:25.595+02:002010-05-25T03:06:25.595+02:00Dear Emil,
It was a very nice surprise to get a m...Dear Emil,<br /><br />It was a very nice surprise to get a mail from you, moreover with good news about Tom Marschak. I have the best memories of him and his father, they took excellent care of me when I was visiting Berkeley in the fall of 1967.<br /><br />These days I am quite busy, a paper of mine was just accepted for publication in Journal of Evolutionary Economics, and I am trying to make there some last minute's improvements. Otherwise another paper was just published in KYKLOS. This deals with the problem of unequally bounded rationality, which I mentioned to you some 10 years ago during my visit in Bruxelles.<br /><br />And what are your projects after the visit in Berkeley. Are you returning to Bruxelles, or Sweden, or Austria - or have you found another nice place?<br /><br />So now when we have regained contact, let's maintain it!Pavel Pelikannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-13338250180069519712010-05-25T02:53:19.970+02:002010-05-25T02:53:19.970+02:00Dear Emil,
As additional proof, should any be need...Dear Emil,<br />As additional proof, should any be needed, that eternal life does indeed exist in Academia, I cite the example of Professor Pavel Pelikan who appears in your blog 23. A few days ago, Pavel appeared at the Mölle conference and presented a paper. He had not aged since his days in Berkeley and his paper was characterized by the same ability to formulate uncomfortable but relevant questions and logically persue the answers as characterized his papers 30 years ago. Time had stood still since I saw him last. Ah you fortunate band of Berkeley brothers!Per Wijkmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-65836174185102887472010-05-24T19:06:18.769+02:002010-05-24T19:06:18.769+02:00Those were the days. I'm sure that all the sto...Those were the days. I'm sure that all the stories you brought back to Stockholm were the reason I decided to go to the US too. And I also remember your encouragement; you almost pushed me over the Atlantic. Comeing back I believe I "pushed" a few students over there myself. Those were the days.kari_lanttohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948494087986287320noreply@blogger.com