Can you lead a perfectly successful and happy life even if you’ve never read about Leopold Bloom masturbating on a Dublin beach? Everyone has that book (or those books) that they probably should have read by now, but have not. Professors, we hypothesized, are no different. So we asked them to name the book they […]

Lydia DePillis speaks for all of us in Sunil Gulati’s Global Economy class when she reports an inability to concentrate on Nobel Prize winner Robert Mundell’s guest lecture today because of his eerie resemblance to Donald Trump. Mundell’s photo doesn’t quite do the parallel full justice; it’s pre-awful auburn hair dye job.

Beloved econ professor Sunil Gulati has always seemed to have a bit of an inferiority complex when it comes to his Nobel Prize-winning/poverty eradicating/just plain publishing colleagues. At least now he can cheer himself knowing he’s the only one in the department elected president of the U.S. Soccer Federation. Here’s to better luck this time […]

Sunil Gulati on exchange rates: “Stay away from the health club, you want pounds.” Lag from the class. Laughter. – Ana Ortiz

Our correspondent Jimmy Vielkind found the following on Overheard in NY: Wednesday One-liner Cotton to Book Learnin’ Professor guy: I was going to give you all a quiz today. But then I realized that it was Valentine’s Day. You’re supposed to do something for the people you love on Valentine’s Day. And of course, I […]