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Economist on "It's time to reinvent the Federal Reserve"

Interesting article. What do you think?https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/22/time-to-reinvent-the-federal-reserve

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Economist on "Have you ever spend personal money on data"

Be honest

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Economist on "Website of a grad student with only titles of (working) papers"

Is it bad? How long before the market should I start my site?I want to put at least the titles so that if someone else does it at the same time, I can have a legitimate claim on the same idea. However,...

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Economist on "Mulligan destroys Furman and Summers with a basic graph"

https://caseymulligan.blogspot.com/2017/10/furman-and-summers-revoke-summers.htmlNot a fan of Mulligan, but this is glorious.

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Economist on "Will the AEA deny Roubini his economics license for his after...

Nope.This talk of ethics and code of conduct is toothless

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Economist on "McCloskey and Ziliak's (1996) crystal ball"

"Most scientists (and historians) use simulation, which in explicit, quantitative form is becoming cheaper in economics, too. It will probably become the main empirical technique, following other...

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Economist on "Piketty gets schooled by Noah Smith"

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-23/piketty-s-inequality-theory-gets-dinged"Now, however some economists are going back and checking Piketty’s history more thoroughly. Richard Sutch of...

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Economist on "Drink Coffee - It could save your life"

Strong neuroprotective properties: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1468-1331.2002.00421.x/full

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Economist on "Explain to me why governments and institutions (corporations...

are so eager to embrace social justice? There's an applied game theory paper right there.

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Economist on "Amazon headquarters proposals = creating fake jobs"

Tell me why a city like edmonton is paying people to whip up some bogus proposal. Do you think amazon is going to move to edmonton? ljl at the waste of taxpayer money.

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Economist on "How to deal with the constant rejection"

Most of us were good students before dealing with reviewers. Any tips on how to manage rejection after rejection?

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Economist on "If you’re going to become deadwood"

Please at least have the decency to wait until become a full professor so you don’t stay as an associate professor for the rest of your career

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Economist on "Do you think that all kinds of uncertainty can be represented...

Are you a probabilist?

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Economist on "Mankiw: I used to be cf81, but don't visit "that site" anymore"

Good MOURNING, bietches!!!!!You THOUGHT a LEEDING LIGHT of the discipline was here? You FIEKING THOUGHT!!!!But no, this place is full of LOOSERS like you, writing solo papers instead of SEVEN AUTHORS...

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Economist on "The role of hypothesis testing | Kevin D. Hoover"

http://ejpe.org/pdf/6-2-art-3.pdfI am reluctantly giving away this 'specialized' knowledge that I hoarded until now. Thought that some of you are too dumb to have got a clear idea about hypothesis...

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Economist on "Seeing the club function at close distance is so demoralising"

Just reviewed a paper for a 4-star journal (UK bros, this is according to the business school ABS ranking system used for REF; non-UK bros, this is roughly equivalent to a top-field journal /...

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Economist on "Bay Area Housing Bubble"

Just for fun I revisited the "Marin POS" blog, which covered the last Bay Area housing bubble. Here's a house they mocked in 2006, listed at...

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Economist on "Who is the Captain Beefheart of economics?"

And who is the Frank Zappa for that matter?

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Economist on "Best African American Economist"

Who do you think is the best African American economist at the moment or in US history more broadly?

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Economist on "Wow she used introduction of RuneScape Grand Exchange to study...

I wish I had thought of that

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