Economist on "Honest bitching and moaning time!"
Spent my day writing recommendation letters for people with no chance at the job, staring at bulls**t data, and writing a referee report for a theory paper I didn’t give two s**ts about to actually try...
View ArticleEconomist on "Machine learning and econ twitter"
I have started this study and I already know I cant publish the real meaty parts.1. Economists who are female are almost all the time talking about sexism on twitter. You don’t even need machine...
View ArticleEconomist on "UofChicago bros, put down your grad student eating utensils and...
How the hell did you decide to give Marshall Steinbaum a PhD?
View ArticleEconomist 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.
View ArticleEconomist on "What podcasts do you listen to?"
I pick and choose among my subscriptions--I usually just want a good story and to learn a little something--but I most enjoy:Hardcore History - http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchiveIntelligence...
View ArticleEconomist on "White women are oppressed in economics"
JMCs of 2018 are disproportionately not white females. We should enact measures to ensure white women are allowed into these programs.
View ArticleEconomist on "Things that economics as a discipline needs to leave behind"
In no particular order:(1) Obsession with solo-authored work. Science is increasingly becoming a team effort. (2) Disdain for interdisciplinary work and not reading/citing literature in other fields...
View ArticleEconomist on "There was only one industrial revolution"
http://lukemuehlhauser.com/there-was-only-one-industrial-revolution/Many people these days talk about an impending “fourth industrial revolution” led by AI, the internet of things, 3D printing, quantum...
View ArticleEconomist on "Why do the proponents of single payer act like it is about...
It is possible (and probably much easier) to achieve universal coverage without single payerTheir real concern is cost, and they should not pretend like they are motivated by coverage
View ArticleEconomist on "Start-up during phd"
Any experiences? We already have some traction (5 figures sales) and some industry connections, would it be reasonable to take a personal year and see how it goes? Anybody has experiences? If it...
View ArticleEconomist on "Are economists wrong about discounting?"
https://80000hours.org/articles/future-generations/Sometimes at this point people, especially those trained in economics, mention “discounting” as a reason to not care about the long-term.When...
View ArticleKirk on "Kirk - New Upcoming Policy - Bans for Racist/Sexist post"
Hi all,I've had a small change of heart. Even though it is now very rare to see something sexist or racist on EJMR, especially with the bot taking care of almost everything within minutes, I'm going to...
View ArticleEconomist on "Petition for a fainting couch forum for all those that are...
If someone reads things like a man thinks large breasts on a woman makes them more attractive or other horrible sexist comments, they can go to the fainting couch forum and read about puppies and...
View ArticleEconomist on "The End of Feackers? Evidence from an IP Ban in a Mainstream...
We evaluate how an IP ban affects sixist posting on a web forum. We use a differences in differences approach, using Twitter as the control group. We find a string "first stage" in that posting with...
View ArticleEconomist on "Snake_case vs CamelCase"
Which is your go to coding style?jerb: snake_case no jerb: CamelCase
View ArticleEconomist on "Boston?"
I'm on the market and making a list of schools to apply to. My preference is to live in a mid-sized city, but I obviously can't be too picky. I have spent some time in New York and I couldn't live...
View ArticleEconomist on "An Equilibrium of No Free Energy"
effective-altruism.com/ea/1gd/an_equilibrium_of_no_free_energy/"I am now going to introduce some concepts that lack established names in the economics literature—though I don’t believe that any of the...
View ArticleEconomist on "To my VLRM Bros"
Dear Bros,Less than a decade ago I was not supposed to get a job in academia. I was to be banished to the least of prestigious industry job with a horrible boss and mundane excel spreadsheets and...
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