Economist on "On way to conference"
Staying in a pleb hotel is this what Marshall meant by the ordinary business of life?
View ArticleEconomist on "Just got desk rejected within an hour"
co-incidentally, my friend no longer edits the journal
View ArticleEconomist on "Every write some notes down and now you have no clue what you...
I have a whiteboard where I put research ideas, just some thoughts and some basic starting points. I had one idea which I thought would be useful in relation to something else I'm working on, but...
View ArticleEconomist on "Stony Brook conference kickaround"
I apologize if this is not the venue for this sort of question.I’ll be attending the Stony Brook Game Theory conference this coming week and was wondering if any of you fellow attendees would be...
View ArticleEconomist on "Nicholas Cox"
No, he will never win the Nobel, but the sum of this man's contributions to economics is enormous. I'll bet everyone here, ugrads included, have relied, at some point on, an answer he posted to...
View ArticleEconomist on "Why is economics so useless?"
No hedge funds use DSGE to forecast the economy. No insurance firms use contract theory to design contract. No Fortune 500 companies use empirical corporate finance to manage their firms. ... ...The...
View ArticleEconomist on "Dealing with expectations without creating envy/frustration.."
..I am at LRM and I would've really like to go for top econ consulting firms. I know I do not have the profile and I am trying to not create frustration that will ultimately and surely become a burden...
View ArticleEconomist on "EJMR implicated in the rise to power of he who shall not be named"
Abstract: "Economics has long promoted an image of agents who profit and consume for their own individual benefit without any kind of responsibility for each other, and who rationally evaluate means...
View ArticleEconomist on "The London full prof meditated resentfully"
on the physical texture of life. Had it always been like this? Had food always tasted like this? He looked round the canteen. A low-ceilinged, crowded room, its walls grimy from the contact of...
View ArticleEconomist on "UKIP economist's conference"
I just got a letter inviting me to a conference organized by self-acclaimed internationally leading monetary economists. When I googled the bloke, I found his political website which starts out with...
View ArticleEconomist on "You know your school is LRM when"
Your faculty meeting takes place in a room with an unironically broken window.
View ArticleEconomist on "Al Roth on ejmr ("Marketplaces, Markets, and Market Design")"
"But until recently I would have been hard pressed to name a part of the market for economists that was viewed as repugnant by other economists. Lately, however, the website Economics Job Market Rumors...
View ArticleEconomist on "The new chicago"
-> phd cohort size has shrunk and stabilized to about 20 -> stipends have increased to 40k -> pass rate on the core exam has been 90% in last 5 years. 95% this year. -> faculty hiring has...
View ArticleEconomist on "AEA is repugnant"
Sitting on- Asian discrimination across US Econ departments - Ethical scandals at its own Journaks - Not representative of the profession it serves - Wasting $$$ attacking a private website because it...
View ArticleEconomist on "Why Koreans love working in China?"
I see so many Koreans working in China universities. The salaries in China universities much higher than Korea? Why don’t they just stay in US or just go back to Korea? For the Korean bros, what’s so...
View ArticleEconomist on "Jeff Sachs is the new Freud?"
Dr. Sachs offers a diagnosis of his patient.https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-psychological-problems-getting-worse-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-and-bandy-x-lee-2018-07
View ArticleEconomist on "Bros and Broettes, should I take a course in ML or number theory?"
Or any other suggestions on outside courses to take as a first year student?-your friendly broette
View ArticleEconomist on "Can i spend the majority of my time developing my github and...
my masters thesis is basically reg monkey work and i'm looking for other ways to occupy my time productively
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