From the inbox:
Time for you to write about Jeremy Lin, Harvard econ grad, playing sensationally for the NY Nicks.
OK, here goes.
Was Jeremy Lin an econ grad? Cool, just like that Bills QB. Of course, as we all know, Harvard doesn't have an undergraduate business degree so 95% of those econ majors are really business major types, inflating the starting salaries we propogandize to our true econ undergraduates who then don't understand why they don't get $100k jobs on Wall Street … so, what I want to know is, what was his senior thesis topic? Was it something about managerial strategies or financial markets or was he testing hypotheses about sticky wages or some sort of NBERy urban environmental econ? Until I know that, I will not (i.e., won't) embrace this guy as a true undergraduate economics major*.
That said, I read somewhere that Lin outplayed my one and done boy John Wall. I say big deal. Only a Harvard guy would be foolish enough to actually try (try? in a regular season game? that is like practice, I'm talking about practice!) in a regular season NBA game. Heck, I imagine that even I, in a few minutes of hustle, could blow past Lamar Odom or Kris Humphries and score a few points as they save themselves for the playoffs. An NBA game is absolutely the worst TV out there. It is like watching the NFL Pro Bowl every regular season game.
Other than all that, it is a great story that a Harvard guy is doing well in professional basketball. I hope 'Melo doesn't ruin it all when he gets back.
*Note my hypocrisy, I majored in economics largely because my school didn't have a business major.
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