UCLA is back in session. There were so many students filing out of a classroom that I was stuck on a staircase for a few minutes unable to walk up two more flights of stairs. I did have the pleasure of talking to Professor Michael Dukakis. The world would have taken a different path had he defeated George H.W Bush in the 1988 election. I told him that I had spent the weekend with thousands of economists in Chicago. He didn't seem that impressed.
I went to some meetings today and tried to arrange some internal environmental economics and urban economics seminars at UCLA. Next week, I go to Duke and the World Bank. I wrote down some notes about the deep points I'd like to make when I'm there.