:Fixed Point

Baby Boot is two days late. And we discovered last week that apparently my wife and I don’t agree on a middle name for a girl (and still have a disagreement of the ordering of the names should it be a boy). Perhaps we can take inspiration from this list of the most popular celebrity-inspired names in Britain, from The Times

I think it would be very interesting to cross reference this with demographic data, and perform an ongoing longitudinal study, and perhaps compare it with some measure of performance of these celebrities. Steven Levitt are you listening?

The story also reports on the James Bond fan who changed his name to:James Dr No From Russia with Love Goldfinger Thunderball You Only Live Twice On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Diamonds Are Forever Live and Let Die The Man with the Golden Gun The Spy Who Loved Me Moonraker For Your Eyes Only Octopussy A View to a Kill The Living Daylights Licence to Kill Golden Eye Tomorrow Never Dies The World Is Not Enough Die Another Day Casino Royale Bond.

Hmmmmm. what about Milton Keynes Frederick Friedrich Adam Ricardo Malthus Robertson Krugman Sen Becker Hicks Edgeworth Yellen North Akerlof Thaler Boot???And what does this say about women in the profession?