Economist on "Gets IER pub, gets tenure, becomes deadwood immediately"
Describes a faculty member at my department. She hasn’t produced anything since getting tenure, she’s not very pleasant, and her undergrad classes are always the last to fill up. She’s destined to be a...
View ArticleEconomist on "Why the f**k is this economics?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/data-from-11-million-infants-suggests-fracking-harms-human-health/548315/
View ArticleEconomist on "Richest econ phds (with evidence)"
Gary Loveman (PhD from MIT)2015 earnings: $15,236,500http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyOfficers?symbol=CZR.O&WTmodLOC=C4-Officers-5
View ArticleEconomist on "Not a bubble: worldstarhiphop.com users discuss cryptocurrency...
http://worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhliRCh0z718fBQ3Wu (see the comments)https://i.imgur.com/WHIUL6W.png
View Article>> Summers"">Economist on "Barro >>> Summers"
Robert J. Barro argued that cutting the US corporate-tax rate from 35% to 20% would boost the annual real per capita GDP growth rate by about .4% over a 5-year period
View ArticleEconomist on "How can groups make good decisions? | Mariano Sigman and Dan...
https://youtu.be/JrRRvqgYgT0"We all know that when we make decisions in groups, they don't always go right -- and sometimes they go very wrong. How can groups make good decisions? With his colleague...
View ArticleEconomist on "On a job flyout and a passenger has spilled red wine of my only...
... and my job market presentation is less than an hour away. Should I cancel my presentation? No replacement shirt.
View ArticleEconomist on "Mental Health Wellness"
This is just a public service announcement to take care of your mental health. Seeing a professional (as I have) can start to improve things, albeit it very slowly. Don't listen to the turds on here...
View ArticleEconomist on "The least influential major economist ever"
Herbert Simon. Man, the dude got a Nobel prize in '78 for what behavioral economists repackaged as brand new sh!t. Boo.
View ArticleEconomist on "Trump stands up for Asian Americans"
http://fortune.com/2017/11/21/doj-harvard-university-discrimination/
View ArticleEconomist on "Wife wants divorce but she'll not gain from it"
Why does she want it? Cites personality incompatibility. It will actually make life easier for me but I don't want a divorce since Catholic.
View ArticleEconomist on "A little E.A.Poe for the job-market meat on the Left Coast!"
Once upon AEA dreary, while I waited, weak and weary, For interviews with seniors dull and bore, So exhausted, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my...
View ArticleEconomist on "Economist Mark Skidmore's inconvenient discovery"
The US government may have misspent $21 trillion, a professor at Michigan State University has found. Papers supporting the study briefly went missing just as an audit was announced. Two departments of...
View ArticleEconomist on "Most undeserving Nobel"
Thomas Sargent, for inventing the most fraudulent crap in economics - DSGE.
View ArticleEconomist on "Marxist-feminist-anti-racist-ecological economics"
It's a real thing:http://new.wellesley.edu/economics/faculty/matthaeij
View ArticleEconomist on "Economic’s problem with women.... --- The Economist"
https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21732699-professions-problem-women-could-be-problem-economics-itself-women-and
View ArticleEconomist on "The myth that most papers remain uncited"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08404-0"The new figures — which count research articles and reviews — suggest that in most disciplines, the proportion of papers attracting zero citations...
View ArticleEconomist on "Women and Economics"
https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21732699-professions-problem-women-could-be-problem-economics-itself-women-and
View ArticleEconomist on "Quality of life in Hong Kong"
How is it? If I live in a big city in the U.S., should I consider reallocate? I feel unsafe in the U.S. now. There are lots of crimes. The political environment is getting worse.
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