Last night, I did a segment on the John Batchelor Show on the late George Hilton. Here it is. My part starts at 33:10 and goes to the end.
One correction: John referred to me as the Features Editor of Econlib. I’m not. Rather, I commission and edit one Feature Article a month.
Aug 23 2014
Commenters Patrick Sullivan and gofx directed me to a post on NGDP targeting in developing countries, by Pranjul Bhandari and Jeffrey Frankel: Targeting Nominal GDP has been proposed in the context of major industrialised countries. (Frankel, 2012, gives other references to the literature.) But a good case can be made...
Aug 23 2014
For many years, Linda Greenhouse covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times. She no longer does, but she has an op/ed in the Times. Her latest op/ed is quite revealing, perhaps intentionally, perhaps not. As regular readers of my posts know, I occasionally cite extreme cases of media bias. This is one in a ...
Aug 22 2014
Last night, I did a segment on the John Batchelor Show on the late George Hilton. Here it is. My part starts at 33:10 and goes to the end. One correction: John referred to me as the Features Editor of Econlib. I'm not. Rather, I commission and edit one Feature Article a month.
READER COMMENTS
David Gordon
Aug 24 2014 at 11:36am
I enjoyed very much your memories of Hilton. As I recall, he lived near Stanford and drove to UCLA and back every week during a quarter.
David R. Henderson
Aug 24 2014 at 3:19pm
@David Gordon,
Thanks. I think you’re right that he lived near Stanford. If I recall correctly, though, I think he sometimes drove and sometimes flew. He was a fan of PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines), which wasn’t constrained by the Civil Aeronautics Board’s regulation of interstate fares. The fares were often very low. I recall once a fare special that took me from LAX to SFO for $8. (This was in about 1974.)
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