Economist on "MIT suicide of 3rd year"
Just got the news. This is terrible. Reach out to those around you, especially if they might be struggling.
View ArticleEconomist on "PhD is a joke ass degree"
As an MBA I've always been curious what PhD students do, so I decided to sit in on one of your classes. The experience has convinced me your degree is a total joke.The professor started by writing a...
View ArticleEconomist on "Econ Prof fired"
This article appeared in the local paper today:SOMMERSET- Christina Regan- a tenured professor of economics at Bowmore College has been fired after a months long investigation. Last March, a 20 year...
View ArticleEconomist on "Preliminary results of AEA "online citizenship" survey"
Only 110 responses so far (1.8% response rate) but matches the narrative so the AEA Committee on Professional Conduct, online task force, is pre-announcing results to boost compliance.28.7% of AEA...
View ArticleEconomist on "It was a huge mistake!!!"
I rejected the MIT offer hoping for a better offer....I'm still in the market unemployed.....
View ArticleEconomist on "Idea to pitch to US government to save the US post office:...
A few weeks ago there was a gigantic fuss about the USPO being in trouble and somehow the problem was amazon, even though they are paying the same fees as everyone else. Well if the USPO is having so...
View ArticleEconomist on "Board pays no money.."
..dont go there.I can't believe I accepted this job, I understand that it's prestigious, but I should've thought a bit more about financial implications. I had an offer that paid twice as much at a uni...
View ArticleEconomist on "Confession: The whole time I thought Paul Romer wrote Advanced...
Just noticed today it was David Romer. It feels like I just left the Matrix to wake up and discover everything was an illusion.
View ArticleEconomist on "Street hawkers/vendors better explained by finance"
Than Micro theory.Cost of capital is too high, so better to produce/sell at the smaller level. In developing countries if there more street vendors/hawkers, then conditions for expansion through...
View ArticleEconomist on "Stop the Montiel gag and anything else that’s been done to death"
Please. It stopped being funny ages ago. Go to Reddit and watch cat videos if you must.
View ArticleEconomist on "It is I, the Bayesian Poet."
I dreamed Rubin threw himself off the parapet his Frequentist heart, encrusted with tears from failed program evaluation Bayesian Evangelion with bronze horns shaped like Laplace priors he did not hear...
View ArticleEconomist on "Most undeserving Nobels in economics"
Gary Becker, for downgrading economics to sociology.Thomas Sargent, for inventing the biggest scam in economics that is DSGE.
View ArticleEconomist on "President of Harvard attacks group behind anti-racial quota...
Dear Members of the Harvard Community,In the weeks and months ahead, a lawsuit aimed to compromise Harvard’s ability to compose a diverse student body will move forward in the courts and in the media....
View ArticleEconomist on "Alice Wu"
Wrote a paper that used techniques and methods about a sexy topic that are beyond impressive for an undergraduate honors thesis. However, all she did was show that many people who post on this forum...
View ArticleEconomist on "Dear Esteemed Professor"
Do any of you faculty members get numerous requests from graduate students in India to serve in unpaid internships? They mostly read:"Dear Esteemed Professor: I am aware of your most excellent work in...
View ArticleEconomist on "Economics has a Wolfers problem not a website problem"
Justin please take note that spamming Twitter is what Trump does.It doesn't lead to good policy or good economic research.
View ArticleEconomist on "Looking for a good book on macro"
Best I've found so far:http://www.worldcat.org/title/toilets-in-history/oclc/40714407
View ArticleEconomist on "Dubious at best"
ejmr bros, where is the comment "any approach that claims to recover the distribution of individual utility parameters from aggregate data based on arbitrary distributional and functional form...
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