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On Amazon

"Do any of you work at Amazon?"

Silence

"Of course not, you'd be asleep in my class. That place is a sweatshop"

Pigs

My goal for this class is that by the end of the semester, you will all be capitalist pigs.

"A lot of you have stopped me in the halls to apologize for your midterm performance. That is ridiculous! I PROMISE I do not judge you as a person based on performance on one exam... <long pause>... I judge you as a person based on your performance on TWO exams."

I'm going to try to show income and substitution without calculus and without tears.

Andy Abel

#takethatsmetters

If you don't like calculus it's ok. You can still live a long full life.

Andy Abel

#hehasasoul

You did production functions with Smetters right? Ok, I'll assume you learned nothing. That's not a comment on you.

Andrew Abel, Macroeconomics professor

"You did production functions with Smetters, right? Ok, so I'll assumes you learned nothing. That's not a comment on you"

- Andrew Abel

Harvard Business School = bad at numbers. The world according to Smetters

#quantjocks #hbs

"I think I am showing early symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome toward Smetters"

It's really tough when you have a brilliant brother. Just ask my brothers. Lucky for them they're more attractive so they still have their value in the world.

Smetters, on family

#family #smetterssays

You don't want to compare an east coast smiley face person to a west coast smiley face person.

Smetters, on marginal utility.

#smetterssays