{"id":1863,"date":"2008-03-14T19:42:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T02:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2008-03-14T19:42:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T02:42:54","slug":"intergalactic-planetary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/14\/intergalactic-planetary\/","title":{"rendered":"Intergalactic Planetary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/column\/paul-krugman\">Paul Krugman<\/a> proves that not only is a bad ass economist, but that he is also a pretty cool guy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thirty years ago I was an oppressed assistant professor, caught up in the academic rat race. To cheer myself up I wrote &#8212; well, see for yourself. Joshua Gans of the University of Melbourne scanned a copy of the thing I wrote &#8212; back then academics did their work with typewriters, abacuses, and stone axes &#8212; and was good enough to send me a copy. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~pkrugman\/interstellar.pdf\">The Theory of Interstellar Trade.<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder what the equivalent of that paper is for quantum computing?  Oh, wait, ALL our theory papers are like &#8220;The Theory of Interstellar Trade.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman proves that not only is a bad ass economist, but that he is also a pretty cool guy: Thirty years ago I was an oppressed assistant professor, caught up in the academic rat race. To cheer myself up I wrote &#8212; well, see for yourself. Joshua Gans of the University of Melbourne scanned &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/14\/intergalactic-planetary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intergalactic Planetary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-ha-ha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}