The Wash Post profiles the George Mason economics department, home of Walter Williams and other free-market luminaries. The occasion for the article is, well, you know. A truly great line, from reporter Neil Irwin: “Economists have game theory; the basketball players have just got game.” Also, a funny quote from the suddenly b-ball-crazy campus: “I don’t remember anywhere near this big a celebration when Vernon [Smith] won the Nobel Prize,” said GMU economics professor Alex Tabarrok.
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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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