Things would have worked out a lot better if we had bought our first television set a year earlier, in 1950, so that I could have watched DiMaggio while he was still great. Then I could have shared with my father and other people the vision of the eternal baseball star. It might even have helped me to have more appreciation for some of my elders in the economics profession. But maybe I should be worrying instead about what the young hot shots in economics are thinking of me.


Nothing Is Sacred (2002) - Ch. 1 : Thoughts on Friends and Other Noteworthy Persons

Robert Barro Quotes

Things would have worked out a lot better if we had bought our first television set a year earlier, in 1950, so that I could have watched DiMaggio...

Things would have worked out a lot better if we had bought our first television set a year earlier, in 1950, so that I could have watched DiMaggio...

Things would have worked out a lot better if we had bought our first television set a year earlier, in 1950, so that I could have watched DiMaggio...

Things would have worked out a lot better if we had bought our first television set a year earlier, in 1950, so that I could have watched DiMaggio...