Economist on "Why MIT and Harvard suck in theory?"
Why MIT and Harvard bu hao in theory? Theory is most important field we have, regardless of what reg monkeys say.
View ArticleEconomist on "Gift for advisor on having paper accepted at journal?"
Should i give some sort of gift to my advisor if I appreciate his help with my paper that just got accepted for publication? I am not going on the market next year.
View ArticleEconomist on "How did the industrial revolution occur with net deflation?"
How was that possible?
View ArticleEconomist on "Feeling lonely and blue"
I don't have friends in my depart m ent, I barely talk to people
View ArticleEconomist on "Fiscal multiplier is a myth"
Thr idea that you can fix economy by taxing and spending that tax money is RETARDED.
View ArticleEconomist on "What economics blogs should I read?"
I want a list of blogs that I would read occasionally. They should focus on academic economics, but it is OK if they also write about economy in general (but preferably with academic feel). I have good...
View ArticleEconomist on "Departments with the healthiest environment"
Which departments (both among APs and grad students) have a a) cooperative grad student community? b) healthy advisor-grad student dynamic? c) happy and non-aspie atmosphere?I'm betting the sacred...
View ArticleEconomist on "Would you rather live in South Korea or North Korea?"
Is this a good argument that capitalism is better than communism? Or is it a straw man? Heard someone very intelligent make it, but was slightly tongue in cheek.
View ArticleEconomist on "Is it ok to play tennis on campus with a female AP colleague?"
My colleague and I discovered we both like tennis, and she suggested we should play. We are both married and there is zero sexual tension between us, but still I was hesitant to play to avoid problems....
View ArticleEconomist on "Economic research on misdelivery of promises"
I am interested to see the impact of breaking promises. For example, an agent cannot deliver his promises (non-contractabile). Is there any source of reading?
View ArticleEconomist on "Referring preference question"
How much would a journal have to pay you to get a good quality report done in 2 week? 4 weeks? 2 months? If late the payment goes to zero.
View ArticleEconomist on "Best micro theory department outside top 10"
I would say PennState. What do you think?
View ArticleEconomist on "Why are LGB public employees paid less?"
http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/10_WageGap.pdf"An additional way that economists and sociologists look for evidence of discrimination is to compare the earnings of people who...
View ArticleEconomist on "Things that every economist can agree"
-People respond to incentives -Debt has to be payed later, and people know this and anticipate tax raises -Fiscal multipliers are -0.5 to about 0.75, never bigger than 1.5 -Comparative advantage
View ArticleEconomist on "How to spend all the money?"
I'm taking a 200k/year industry job in a low CoL US city. This is eight times my grad stipend. What on earth do I do with all this money? I plan to save about 40k a year, but the job also has huge...
View ArticleEconomist on "Price of Casella Berger"
Why is Casella Berger so expensive? New copy going for over 300 right now on Amazon. Over 180 for used. https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Inference-George-Casella/dp/0534243126This is high even for...
View ArticleEconomist on "The definitive HRM, MRM, LRM category"
My ranking:VHRM: Harvard, MIT HRM: UC Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton LHRM: Chicago, Northwestern, UPenn, Yale VMRM: Michigan, UCSD, Columbia, NYU, LSE MRM: IIES, Cornell, Rochester, Brown, UCLA,...
View ArticleEconomist on "Is it ok to play tennis on campus with a female AP colleague?"
My colleague and I discovered we both like tennis, and she suggested we should play. We are both married and there is zero sexual tension between us, but still I was hesitant to play to avoid problems....
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