A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man

Tuesday, October 01st, 2019

It was dusk on the opening night of Burning Man, and the makers and misfits were touching up their art projects. Subwoofers oontz-oontzed as cyclists draped in glowing LEDs pedaled through the desert. And Paul Romer, a reigning laureate of the Nobel Prize in economics, sat on a second-story porch at the center of it all, marveling at a subtlety of the street grid. The roads narrowed as they approached small plazas around the impermanent city. How clever, he thought, this way of funneling pedestrians toward gathering places. And most Burners probably didn’t even notice. Follow this link to learn more.

Sourced from: The New York Times