Princeton Wins Another Nobel Prize; We Cry
October 13, 2008 at 10:58 am
We may be the home of the Wharton School, but Princeton can boast having the latest Nobel prize-winning economic theorist: Mr. Paul Krugman. This maintains Princeton's significant lead in the Penn vs. Princeton Nobel prize count. And like a typical Princetonian, Krugman was humble about it too:
"To be absolutely, totally honest I thought this day might come someday, but I was absolutely convinced it wasn’t going to be this day."But do not fret, Quakers! There is a chance to have the last laugh. Princeton has not yet released its endowment returns for the past fiscal year, and if they show a decline (yes, like Penn's), that fancy shmancy prize will seem gleefully ironic. Let's keep those fingers crossed.