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Austan Goolsbee is pretty neat

Marginal Revolution points out that Austan Goolsbee is smart. Why, yes, he is. But that's not all! He's also an amazing teacher. His new economy strategy class was one of the best I took at the University of Chicago, which is saying something, because I had a lot of great teachers there. He had a way of getting you to commit to some conventional wisdom before slowly and painfully demolishing it, leaving you cringing at the obviousness of your error. He's also hilarious. He's well known at the business school for taking a starring role each year in the annual follies, which, as I think I recently mentioned, I directed while I was there. His role always involved yelling a lot . . . our year it was a takeoff on Alec Baldwin's famous scene in Glengarry Glen Ross, and the year before it was something involving boot camp. He never had any script; he would just get up on stage and rant for ten minutes. Hilarious.

Anyway, there's no real point to this post, except, obviously, to reveal my latent crush on Austan Goolsbee. And, I suppose, to suggest that if you are thinking of going to business school, you apply to the University of Chicago, and take his class if you get in.