Economist on "What is the best age to retire from academia?"
I am 75 and I can still use my transparencies to teach the general equilibrium theory. But I do not feel I am in the club any more.
View ArticleEconomist on "Broettes, put down whatever is PC to say you are doing and...
How can this kind of bullcrap be published by a well respected journal:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/opinion/boston-marathon-women-nurse.htmlAs left leaning economist I find this deplorable.
View ArticleEconomist on "Algorithm for JBC attribution"
In order to save costs for an organization mindful of such concerns, here is an algorithm that should save on committee lunch and other fees related to the attribution of the JBC medal.Step 1. Take all...
View ArticleEconomist on "Which type of academic do you dislike more?"
A know-it-all or a talk-little?
View ArticleEconomist on "How cold is Antarctica really?"
Can one set up an economics research lab there and have a high supply of researchers wanting to work there?
View ArticleEconomist on "Are stakes in academia high or low?"
- Relative to other professions?- In an absolute sense?Money wise, there may not be much to gain for most people, but you can get intellectual prestige. And even in that realm, this is very close to...
View ArticleEconomist on "Official Economics Nobel Prize 2018 Predictions thread"
The ink on the 2017 Prize is slowly and irrationally drying, so it is time to predict the next year's recipient.Rajan/Myers/Diamond Kiyotaki/Moore/Wright Eaton/Kortum/Melitz
View ArticleEconomist on "Women are particularly underrepresented in the cryptocurrency...
Why do you think this is?
View ArticleEconomist on "Small State Studies program in Iceland?"
At the University of Iceland? Is it worth taking three months to do?
View ArticleEconomist on "LaTeX in fenance"
I have noticed many fenance people use Word: why don't they use LaTeX? Don't referees care?
View ArticleEconomist on "Economics is just social arithmetic"
specifically economic reasoning merely colours (or on occasion distorts) the interpretation. The useful work certainly requires statistical literacy, but often not — if we’re honest — much of the...
View ArticleEconomist on "Trade ranking"
How would you rank US departments? I thought of1. Harvard, MIT, Berkeley 2. Princeton, Yale 3. Stanford, Penn State, Columbia, Chicago 4. Michigan, UPenn, Minnesota
View ArticleEconomist on "I have 7 Top 5's and 13 Top fields."
Will be coming up for tenure soon, will I get it?
View ArticleEconomist on "Do you go into office daily in the summer?"
When there are so few people around I procrastinate in the office just as much as at home.
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