Sunday, February 3, 2013

Movie: Trouble with the Curve

This doesn't happen often, but A.O. Scott, writing at his best, liked this one better than I did.

Still, at the end of the day, Clint - locals will know there is a picture of him in my office, courtesy of a postcard sent years ago by one of my best graduate school friends - outshines the smarmy story, making this one recommended by me as well.

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2 comments:

  1. ATabarrokFebruary 3, 2013 at 8:38 PM

    No comment on the implied critique of econometrics?

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  2. econjeffFebruary 4, 2013 at 9:02 AM

    That was not really the point of the movie. As with junior hiring in economics, I suspect the optimimum is some weighted average of quantifiable and intangible factors. More interesting I think are the implicit gender politics, but that would be a much longer review.

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