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Da e Mortensen
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won No e Prize ormar etana sis openings they cannot fill. For various reasons, the job Dale Mortensen, a North- seekerand the job never find
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western University professor who shared the 2010 Nobel
eachother.
To explain these missed opportunities, Mortensen beoping innovative methods to came aprincipal designer ofa analyzeunemployment and la- practicecalled"searchtheory." bor markets, died Jan. 9 at his It has become a standard Prize in economics for devel-
Margarita G. Salinas,
home in Wilmette, Ill. He was 74.
of Redmond
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His death was announced
method by which economists attempt to describe various activities in which individuals
search for something of value, whether a job, a house or a taught since 1965. He had lung marriage partner. by Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., where he had cancer.
guestbook
Search theory is not a pre-
Early i n his car eer, scription for how an economic Mortensen became interested system should work, but rath-
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Opportunity Foundation in
her name. Sandra E. Castiiio, of Bend
in two phenomena in the labor
er a mathematical framework
market that seemed to defy both common sense and the prevailing ideas of economics. He wanted to know why some peopleremained unemployed when businesses had jobs they could not fill, and he wondered why similar jobs could have significantly different salaries.
for analyzing how markets function. "It's just a way of viewing the
Mortensen shared the Nobel, and its $1.5 million in
prize money, with two other
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economists, Peter D i amond of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and Christopher Pissaridesof the London
world," said Kenneth Burdett,
m icrain orest weer ta esturnint es oti t By Craig Sailor The News Tribune
(Tacoma, Wash.)
TACOMA, Wash. — It's
easy to understand why people occasionally report sightings of Bigfoot in the mossy forests of the Olympic Peninsula. What else could explain a fast-mov-
ing biped with long flowing hair climbing trees and plunging into icy streams? It might be Sasquatch. But it's probably Mick Dodge. F ourteen years a g o Dodge was working as a heavy equipmentmechanic at Fort Lewis. Dissatis-
fied with the 9-to-5 grind, he gave up civilization for a life in the rain forest, living off the land, sleeping in tree stumps and bartering for necessities. Today, a television series
about Dodge's unusual lifestyle, "The Legend of Mick Dodge," will premiere on the National Geographic Channel. The show focuses on his adventures in the mountains and Hoh rain
forest.
a University of Pennsylvania
But that's only part of
professor who studied under
who he is, Dodge said. The former Marine has
Mortensen in the 1970s and worked with him on various projects. In an ideal world, a perfect job, a perfect house or a perfect mate can always be found. But
in the imperfect reality of our daily lives, Mortensen pointed out, knowledge is incomplete. Most people, whether searching for work or looking for love,
School of Economics. are milling around with more In the 1980s, they devised a hope than certainty. A job-hunter may not b e
method to study the dynamics
s pent a
l i f e time m a i n-
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Mick Dodge climbs a pair of trees near his cabin along the Sol Duc River near Forks, Wash. Dodge is the subject of "The Legend of
Mick Dodge" on the National Geographic Channel.
taining extreme physical fitness. Look beyond Dodge's impish blue eyes and flowing hair and you'll see broad shoulders and well-developed muscles. "That's my real passion in life," he said inside a small log cabin on a friend'sforested property along the Sol Duc River
"I'll jump in the river for you ... in August," he replies with a laugh. Dodge is 62 now. Aches and pains can make him cranky. In winter, he enjoys a warm cabin and spending time with a lady friend. But, he said, he can stand only a few days cooped up inside four walls before he feels the need to run.
near Forks, Wash.
He loves to take to the forest and move as fast as he can,
He's not a barefoot fanat-
ic, he explains. After making the barefoot vow in 1991, "I
took off up to the glaciers and almost lost my feet," Dodge
recounts. And it's not just Dodge's feet that go bare. He often trains in
the nude or, as he calls it, "nekkid." Viewers will see some of that in the series — with cru-
cial parts discreetly blurred.
Dodge's story is full of colorful tales and daring
to:
of unemployment and the ef- aware of an opening in anfects of government policies on otherstate oreven around the the labor market. corner. A marriage may seem Their m ethod b e came to be made in heaven, but in known as the DM P M odel, economic terms it is depen-
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for Diamond, Mortensen and
Pissarides, and is widely used marketplace. "I develop tools with which by scholars and government
— and was punished for it 17 for an Academy Award. Ex-
show did thorough background checks on Dodge, takes him through the Hoh, weather, Dodge often dons but there are some ele- over Stevens Pass, past Lake a rtificial m aterial f o r r a i n ments that can come only Chelan, through the Methow protection. "The art of living out here is from him. Valley and eventually ends in Dodge is a native of the Bellingham. the art of staying dry," he said. Hoh. His great-grandfather Along the way he eats what But the show's crew often was the first in his family to he finds, Dodge said. From his shot scenes out of sequence. settle there, living in Forks. neck hangs a tooth from a sea And the occasional appearMick grew up there and lion he found washed up on a ance of plastic would have in other places around the beach. He took it after he ate ruined the continuity of the country as the son of a ca- from the remains. episode. So, he got wet. And " I've honored h i m ever annoyed. reer Marine. It was his father, Dodge since," he said. It wasn't the only conflict said, who instilled a lifeMany of his students are Dodge had with the show's long passion for fitness. vegetarians, and they assume producers,the Seattle-based E very day a t 5 a. m . he is one as well. Screaming Flea Productions Dodge's father would roust "They say they don't want to creators of "Hoarders." his son. hurt animals. What? You hate As with many reality shows, "'Get your feet on the plants? What I learned is that Dodge was given a script with d eck!' W e'd r u n th r e e I'm a hungerarian." lines to say. Dodge protested. "I wouldn't say t h ose miles. I wouldn't wake up Dodge said he once ran until half way through." from Washington to Califor- things," he recounts. In one Dodge said he spent six nia and back pulling a two- episode the producers wanted years in the Marines and wheeled cart. He flirted briefly him tohunt a bear. Dodge reis a Vietnam veteran. Af- with the running community fused — he no longer hunts. ter the Marines he spent that took off in the 1970s. It became such a point of years bumming around the Invited to a race in those contention between D o dge country. earlydays,hesaid he couldn't and the suits in New York By the late 1990s, Dodge understand why a woman was that he sent a videotaped messaid, he was working at trying to sell him a bib num- sage of protest to the top brass Fort Lewis. He owned a ber. He declined the purchase at the National Geographic h ouse in Yelm an d r a n and ran the race anyway. He Channel, he said. The execs across the base to his job was the first to cross the fin- relented. Th e b e ar-hunting d aily. Hi s c o mmute i n - ish line but scurried under the episode turned into a mushcluded a swim across the tape, fearful that if he broke it, room-hunting episode instead. Nisqually River. He kept a he might have to pay for it. By the end of the 12th episode, "I dodged under it, and I've the crew would just follow stash of dry clothes on the opposite bank. dodged the running crowd Dodge and capture his natural Eventually, unbeknown from then on," he said. dialogue. "It would be easier and fastto the Army, he lived in Whether walking, running camps on the base to short- or climbing, Dodge said he er to give him lines to say. But en his journey, he said. But usually does it w i thout the he's not an actor. He's a real the job itself hindered the benefit of shoes, sandals or person," said Liza Keckler, time he wanted to spend any other kind of footwear. vice president of development in the wild lands and his In 1991, he made a vow to live at Screaming Flea. physical training. barefoot. The move cured his By the end of the filming, So hequitand moved to plantar fasciitis, back pain and the crew had grown beards the forest. hammer toes, he said. It also and they w er e w a l king Dodge created what he allowed him to interact more barefoot. calls the Earth Gym. Pic- intuitively with t h e n atural Keckler said the series will ture a YMCA in the forest world. expose viewers to Dodge's "Once I put shoes and boots sense of humor, the beauty of where n a t ur e p r o v ides most of the equipment for on, I walk with a dominator's the Hoh rain forest and some physical training. attitude," Dodge said while unique survival tips. "It's nothing that Bear GryUsing cargo nets, straps, wearingknee-highbuffalo skin ropes, stones, limbs, burls boots with elk horn buttons. lls will teach you," she said. and other found and created gear, Dodge teaches his techniques to students who come to him via websites
years later, when conserva-
and word of mouth. He es-
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In simple terms, Mortensen lems," Mortensen explained to said when he won the No- Bloomberg News in 2010. "I'm bel Prize, his ideas revolved not a policymaker." around this basic truth: "It Dale Thomas Mortensen takes time for workers to find was born Feb. 2, 1939, in Enterjobs and for employers to find prise. He grew up in Oregon's workers." Hood River Valley, where his In classic supply-and-de- father worked in forestry. mand economics, in which the He graduated from Willamarket is allowed to operate mette University in Salem in with maximum efficiency and minimum governmental inter-
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After Mortensen accepted his Nobel Prize in Stockholm,
he delivered a short, informal speech in which he quoted from Studs Terkel's book "Working," in which ordinary look for work. Mortensen found that even people described their liveliin a robust economy, some peo- hoods: "Work is about a search ple are always unemployed, for daily meaning as well as and some businesses have daily bread."
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DEATHS ELSEWHERE Deathsof note from around the world: Robert A. Pastor, 66: A White H o use a i d e u n d er President Jimmy Carter who shepherded the 1977 Panama Canal treaties to ratification
on Wednesday at his home in Washington. Sam Berns, 17: A Massachusetts high school junior whose life with the illness progeria
won the English Footballer of
was the subject of a documen-
er-turned-architect who publicly forswore mortality. Her
tary film recently shortlisted
the Year award. Died follow-
ing a long battle with illness. Madeline Arakawa Gins, 72: A p oet - turned-paint-
buildings, by her own account, were designed to pre-empt tives defeated his nomination death for those living in them. to be ambassador to Panama. births — progeria is a genetic With her husband, the JapaPastor went to work for Carter disorder resulting in rapid pre- nese-born artist known simas the National Security Coun- mature aging. Only a few hun- ply as Arakawa, with whom cil's expert on Latin American dred people have the disease, she collaborated for nearly tremely rare — it affects one in 4 million to one in 8 million
affairsat age 29,the day after
whose hallmarks include hair
half a century, Gins practiced
he finished his examination
loss, stunted growth, joint deterioration and cardiac prob-
an idiosyncratic and highly personal brand of art that
for a doctorate from Harvard.
After helping to formulate pol- lems. Died Friday in Boston. sought to deploy architecture icies in tumultuous Central Bobby Collins, 82:A dimin- in the service of large essential America and elsewhere, he utive former Scotland mid- questions about the nature of worked forthe Carter Center, fielder who played for Celtic, being. Died on Wednesday in which promotes human rights Leeds and Everton during a Manhattan. and oversees elections.Died 25-year career in which he — From wire reports
adventures. National Geo-
graphic and the production company that made the
What viewers won't see on
losing himself mentally for hours, sometimes for days.
"The Legend of Mick Dodge" is Dodge wearing plastic gar-
"I just step out the door and
ments. Instead he wears buck-
choose a direction," Dodge skins on TV. While they are said. A favorite route, he said, the clothes he wears in dry
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