Calling David Card, 2021 economic sciences laureate
Nobel Prize Conversations
English - October 11, 2021 11:52 - 9 minutes - 8.28 MBEducation Science Social Sciences Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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“I was kinda hoping I might go to sleep!” – David Card had just got his pyjamas on and was heading for bed, after a very late night arrival from a trip, when the call from Stockholm came. This interview with Adam Smith was recorded just moments later and he talks about his work on immigration, the setting of the minimum wage, and the relationship between those studies and public policy. Meanwhile his wife, Cynthia Gessele, snaps his portrait as he chats in his dressing gown, a picture Adam Smith immediately requests for nobelprize.org: “This guy wants the picture!”
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