UNC Alum Bomani Jones Takes the Dismal Science to ESPN

Posted Sep 26, 2015
You have three degrees in economics, which I assume is not common among your colleagues at ESPN. Do you still consider yourself an economist? Yes. Being an economist is much more about a thought process than it is anything specific about your job. It’s thinking about how to maximize utility and the allocation of scarce resources — that’s what I’m doing every day now. (New York Times)

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