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2005-01-16 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Yale economist resigns over financial misconduct

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Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-16 4:23:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hey! Are those Schmoos?

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-16 5:00:16 AM|| 2005-01-16 5:00:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Lopez-de-Slimes

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-16 7:57:17 AM|| 2005-01-16 7:57:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Should go to work for the UN where his skills will be appreciated.

Posted by RWV 2005-01-16 11:45:37 AM|| 2005-01-16 11:45:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Are those Schmoos?

It looks like an image cropped from an old cartoon that was always printed on paper and passed around, in which there were three more of those characters also laughing and was captioned at the bottom, "You want it WHEN????"

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-16 2:53:01 PM|| 2005-01-16 2:53:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey! Are those Schmoos?

Naw, schmoos don't have any upper appendages. Those two chaps are two-thirds of the trio (the missing one is down on all fours hammering his fists on the ground) who appear on the "You Want It When?" poster so frequently seen in manufacturing, engineering and purchasing offices.

"Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, a tenured finance and economics professor, issued a statement acknowledging "an error," but neither he nor Yale provided details. The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, reported Monday that Lopez-de-Silanes allegedly double-billed Yale for about $150,000 in travel expenses since 2001."

This ~~guy~~ maggot belongs in an executive boardroom or on Wall Street. That's where practices such as double-billing and amounts like $150,000 are typically referred to as an "error."

Posted by Zenster 2005-01-16 2:53:42 PM|| 2005-01-16 2:53:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 This is really bugging me. I am (90%) certain this is one of the three economists who floated a theory of economic law that held that the English legal system's protection of property rights, and in particular the legal rights of corporations was demonstrably far more economically successful than the French model, where corporations enjoy far less legal protection. They used countries which were based upon English vs French systems for their comparison. Of course, the legal community was ridiculing them since they had dared to tread upon foreign (the legal community's) turf, heh.

I can't locate the article as posted on RB, so it was probably only a link and it appears that link-only titles are not part of the RB Search function.

Can anyone verify or deny this - as I said, it's been bugging me since I saw this story.

It seem the eco's were Robt Vishny, Rafael La Porta, and Lopez de Silanes - but I could definitely be wrong.

Posted by .com 2005-01-16 3:23:12 PM|| 2005-01-16 3:23:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Thanks Zman... I had forgotten what the friendly Schmmoos looked like.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-16 4:37:19 PM|| 2005-01-16 4:37:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 .com if that was a recent article, Bros. Judd's archive might help you.

I was going to read it, but moved on.

It was w/in the last month, IIRC.

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-01-16 7:08:26 PM|| 2005-01-16 7:08:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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