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Economist on "Is pathological verbosity the opposite of mathturbation?"

Is it?

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Economist on "Editor of Inter-Universal Economic Review here."

Our journal only excepts high theory articles with sufficient merit to win the author a Nobel Prize.Please consider submitting to our outlet if you think your writing satisfies the above criterion.

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Economist on "Bay Area Housing Bubble"

Just for fun I revisited the "Marin POS" blog, which covered the last Bay Area housing bubble. Here's a house they mocked in 2006, listed at...

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Economist on "What percentage of economists are smarter than you?"

Anyone twice as smart as you?

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Economist on "How many of you chose economics because you wanna change the...

And when did you realize how naive you were?

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Economist on "The Invisible Helping Hand"

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/2016/06/how_feeding_america_a_network_of_food_banks_learned_to_love_the_free_market.html"How a network of food banks learned to feed more...

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Economist on "How are lexicographic preferences built into prices of goods...

Sorry if stupid question. Say I prefer any amount of good X to any amount of good Y. This would suggest I am willing to pay an infinite amount of Y for good X. Wouldn't the price of good X then be...

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Economist on "Suppose A and B are interacting."

What is the equilibrium?

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Economist on "New definition of VHRM, HRM, LRM"

How about this:VHRM: departments which are HRM in all main subfields of economicsHRM: departments which are HRM in most subfieldsMRM: HRM in at least 1 subfield

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Economist 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

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Economist on "Simsek to Goldman Sachs"

You heard it here first, well in advance.

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Economist on "Emanuel Derman vs John Cochrane"

Which one has higher IQ? Good for Derman, no good for Cochrane.

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Economist on "Gelman compares neoclassical economics to Freudian psychoanalysis"

please respond, econodorks!http://andrewgelman.com/2018/04/26/quick-rule-thumb-someone-seems-acting-like-jerk-economist-will-defend-behavior-essence-morality-someone-seems-something-nice/

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Economist on "Stop saying that mechanism design is "engineering of economics""

SK et al., please stop.

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Economist on "Traffic stop from heck with a commissioner from the NJ port...

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/04/the_top_20_moments_of_port_authority_commissioners.htmlThe car contained graduate students from MIT and Yale. Any economists?

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Economist on "Louis Arthur Charles... LAC..."

Does that mean that LAC jobs are now the noblest jobs in academia?

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Economist on "How will Living standards change in the developed world in next...

How will Living standard between the US, EU, and Far East compare in 2043?

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Economist on "It seems like I spend too much time..."

... downloading, naming, and classifying research papers. Some for teaching, some for this or that research project, some to learn, some for the hell of it.Am I alone in this? Am I first and foremost a...

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Economist on "Dupas now oppressed by stata"

How could they not explain "levelsof" to her!!https://twitter.com/DupasPascaline/status/989882412778717184?s=1916 years a slave...

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Economist on "Suggest some AER-worthy ideas."

Do not waste my time with anything less worthy.

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