Economist on "Can I self study Luenberger after Simon abd Bloome?"
I guess it’s doable but S&B was noot good at explaining analysis for me. So should I get something in between, like Sydstaeter& Hammond further math first, the Rudin?
View ArticleEconomist on "Highlighting Is a Waste of Time: The Best and Worst Learning...
http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/09/highlighting-is-a-waste-of-time-the-best-and-worst-learning-techniques/Bros am I wasting my time? I typically self study material by reading PDFs on my iPad and...
View ArticleEconomist on "Advisor is jealous of my family monkey"
It codes while I think and he doesn't have one.
View ArticleEconomist on "Advice from an old timer"
Let me tell you all something you already know. Academia ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you...
View ArticleEconomist on "IO bro(ette)s, what do you think of the Supreme Court's AmEx...
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-1454_5h26.pdfLots of economics in it!
View ArticleEconomist on "Asian candidate seems to think "Hot regards" is a more polite...
I started getting suspicious when he upped the game with "The warmest regards".Now he's taken it to the next level with "Hot regards".I appreciate the effort, but what's coming next? Not sure I can...
View ArticleEconomist on "Guide to Common EJMR Posters for New Users"
Welcome to EJMR! You will quickly notice several common types of posters. To save you the trouble, I thought I would map from what they post to their true identities. 1. The susperstar who mocks...
View ArticleEconomist on "As a professor of economics I started a thread on economics on...
Monkeys took it down. WTF.
View ArticleEconomist on "Today's grad students don't want to be scholars, only arrogant...
That's my conclusion after teaching PhD students for 15 years at a top 10.
View ArticleEconomist on "5 published papers for tenure"
https://twitter.com/ProfEmilyOster/status/1011660886103257088True or False? 5 published papers for tenure doesn't seem a whole lot.
View ArticleEconomist on "The unequal economy"
The unequal economy that's emerged over the past decade, combined with patchy access to health care in rural areas, have had a severe impact on the people growing America's food. Recent data shows just...
View ArticleEconomist on "Can someone explain how IBM CEO hasn't been fired yet?"
The company is doing horribly. what's going on?
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 "House flippers triggered the US housing market crash, not poor...
New NBER paper explains it.http://papers.nber.org/tmp/80614-w23740.pdf
View ArticleEconomist on "German economy needs more workers but nobody wants to go there"
Why do people avoid moving to Germany for work?https://www.reuters.com/article/us-world-work-germany/short-on-workers-german-companies-offer-more-employee-flexibility-idUSKBN1JN0H7
View ArticleEconomist on "Why is Matthew Kahn seen as one of the great economists of the...
Sure he has a lot of top field publications but so do a lot of people. Not only that, all of his top 5’s are coauthored
View ArticleEconomist on "I only get access to my data 4 hours a week"
I travel an afternoon per week to a government agency So I memorize the table structures and do the coding at home Anyone else?
View ArticleEconomist on "Working smarter not harder"
I never considered myself the smartest student in my cohort, so I figured my only possibility for Success was to out work everyone else.So as an AP that was my strategy. I would track the minutes it...
View ArticleEconomist on "LOL at RAships now all being called "predoctoral fellowships""
"we will get you into grad school for being a good slave and not screwing up the data and empirical work that we never look at directly"
View ArticleEconomist on "Is 4th year too late to switch fields?"
I want to switch from something fancy (which is not working out) to reg monkeying but I have zero background in it. I will start my 4th year in the fall. Can it be done?
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