Post <blockquote>In basically every single paper I've seen published in the last 20 years, there's a section for which the author thanks commentators and Edward Glaeser is ALWAYS f*cking there. ALWAYS. Reads this paper on behavioral finance - boom - "Thanks ... Ed Glaeser, ... for their comments" Reads a paper on the role of federalism in China's political system - "We thank ... Ed Glaeser ... for their comments" Reads one of Fudenberg's paper on repeated games - "Thanks ... Ed Glaeser, ... for their comments" Reads a paper on foreign aid - "Thanks ... Ed Glaeser, ... for their comments" Reads some book on education policy - "Ed Glaeser provided many helpful comments.." Reads a paper on using a distorted probability measure for long-term risk pricing - "We thank ... Ed Glaeser ... for their comments" Reads a paper on social interactions - "I thank ... Ed Glaeser for providing useful comments" Reads a paper on the opium war in China - "We thank Ed Glaeser for spurring our interest in this topic" Reading this f*cking LAWTARD book on "pragmatism and democracy" right now, a 400 page tome on f*cking judicial decision-making, and "...we thank Ed Glaeser for helpful comments." Googling ""thank edward glaeser"" and "thank ed glaeser" alone turns out 300+ results, and that's only for cases where he's named the first among many commentators. Does this guy ever shut up about anything?</blockquote>

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