Economist on "The list, it grows..."
The list of people that I will get back at once I am an AP. You all will suffer due to your selfish and arrogant behavior.
View ArticleEconomist on "What's the most important contribution an economist has made to...
It has to be someone who is primarily an economist.
View ArticleEconomist on "Is the tax thing really going to come through?"
If this bill is finally approved, will universities not help us out one way or another? Hoping for some positive answers :(
View ArticleEconomist on "The left reconsiders zoning"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/11/21/the-left-reconsiders-zoning/"Liberal scholars and policy experts have come to recognize that restrictive zoning inflates the price of...
View ArticleEconomist on "Phd student exploitation"
Some profs in my department refuse to pay the university-wide grad student minimum wage to their RAs and TAs. Should I complain to the dean's office and risk ruining my grad student career?
View ArticleEconomist on "Health care prices do not play the role most believe"
https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/health-care-prices-do-not-play-the-role-most-believe/"As I mentioned in two (long) posts on how comprehensive measures of household consumption...
View ArticleEconomist on "LRM grad programs are a joke"
The first year courses are designed in such a way that a high school senior who is going to get accepted by MIT could get an A. If you find it difficult then you will most definitely fail the job market.
View ArticleEconomist on "Who has the most number of papers co authored with their advisor?"
I am afraid it might be me.
View ArticleEconomist on "Why doesn't the AEA buy EJMR?"
Surely they've hear dof the Coase solution? Or maybe not.
View ArticleExperimenter on "Stopping by low-ranked job talks on a snowy afternoon"
Which candidate is this, who knows I know he must be low-ranked though For him to give his job talk here The others must've all said noHis little spouse must think it queer To look for jobs with...
View ArticleEconomist on "Anybody know of a graph of household expenditures by income?"
I'm basically looking for a graph with income on the x axis and % of income spent on a given category on the Y axis with a bunch of different lines (housing, transportation, food, education etc. The...
View ArticleEconomist on "Booth sexual harassment"
I heard they kicked out one finance phd guy for stalking a girl from econ program. Anyone can confirm?
View ArticleEconomist on "Economists: 'We have taken over social science with our methods!'"
*Computer Science shotguns the door* -oh hi!
View ArticleEconomist on "AI just got stronger, crushing a powerful chess engine"
Here is a popular science version of the story.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/12/06/entire-human-chess-knowledge-learned-surpassed-deepminds-alphazero/Chess players will appreciate some of the...
View ArticleEconomist on "My publication strategy (ONE WEIRD TRICK!)"
I tend to send papers in the first instance to Econometrica, and if they are not accepted there, I then attempt AER. And if the paper is still not accepted, then out of self-respect and maintaining a...
View ArticleEconomist on "Calling the bitcoin top"
I'm calling it at around $19500Subject to just one thing. More Economists need to speak positively about it. It has started slowly but it needs to become a reasonable view among experts to understand...
View ArticleEconomist on "The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone |...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-college-good-for/546590/"Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education."
View ArticleEconomist on "Poverty is more prestigious than wealth"
.... rumours from EJMR. Discuss.
View ArticleEconomist on "Gift for advisor"
Intl student here. What is the appropriate amount to spend on a gift for your advisor?
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