At 8pm in Chicago (Hyatt Regency, room Crystal B), with headliner Paul Krugman (“The theory of interstellar trade“) along with David Powell (“Hyperplanic Quantile Utility Optimization Under Separating Auction Equilibria”), Avichai Snir and Daniel Levy (“Potterian Economics”), and yours truly (“S*** happens: the economics version”), plus Orley Ashenfelter as MC. The humor session is the only part of the American Economic Association annual meeting that is free and open to the public! (Registration for the full conference—more info here—is well worth it if you’re into economics 🙂