• STAFET: Daniel Nguyen

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    Stafetten er denne gang havnet hos sin 5. mand - Daniel Nguyen.

    Elena Paltseva har denne gang sendt stafetten videre til Daniel Nguyen. Se her hvad han svarede:

    Where is your favorite place to eat in Copenhagen?
    Kalaset

    If you should recommend a good book, which one would it be?
    For fun: Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
    For economics: Freakonomics, by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt

    What, is anything, should have realized earlier in your life?
    Facebook is not a substitute for face-to-face.

    What is the best part of your job?
    Flexibility: you get to choose which 100 hours you work each week.

    Which bill do you hate to pay the most?
    Student loans

    What is the most beautiful result in economics and why?
    Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, because it is shows we cannot do/know everything. It's an economic version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

    Which famous economist would you like to spend an afternoon with?
    Both of them.

    What is the most important lesson, learnt from the financial crisis?
    Bankers are really good at maximizing personal wealth.

    Læs med næste gang og se hvem stafetten lander hos.

    Tidligere stafetter:

    Christian Hjort-Andersen

    Bertel Schjerning

    Jakob Roland Munch

    Elena Paltseva

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      Andreas (gæst)
      d. 11. juli 2010
      "Which famous economist would you like to spend an afternoon with?
      Both of them."

      Smith & Keynes?
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      Sofie (gæst)
      d. 11. juli 2010
      Mon ikke Arrow og Heisenberg(som vist nok var ekspert udi i kvantefysik)?
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      Anders (gæst)
      d. 13. juli 2010
      Awesome;) I'm a suck-up for academic references across disciplines!

      Heisenberg's uncertainty principle basically says that the more precisely you wish to know the position of a particle, the less precisely you will know its velocity and vice versa.
     

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Daniel har en B.S. i 'Chemical Engineering', fra Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001. Herefter tog han en Ph.D. i Økonomi fra Purdue University, 2008, og er nu 'Assistant professor' på Københavns Universitet indtil 2012.