Economist on "Reading this I am pretty sure Keynes would have been a bro"
If he were alive today, cf points 3,4,5 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/05/seven-things-john-maynard-keynes
View ArticleEconomist on "Beware! Using the term "randomista" may be grounds for a...
"Randomistas is a slang term used by critics to describe proponents of the RCT methodology. It is almost certainly a gendered, derogatory term intended to flippantly dismiss experimental economists and...
View ArticleEconomist on "Getting a visiting position"
Tenured and I love my department, but small town america is uber boring long term. My wife and I would like to travel a bit and do so for longer than a few weeks every summer. Seniors, how does one go...
View ArticleEconomist on "Cutting edge "quant" techniques"
Speaking from a relatively isolated but mid-high position in the industry, everything feels so basic. Ways to leverage otherwise fairly simple concepts and refining processes rather than any kind of...
View ArticleEconomist on "Fields Medalists by Current University Affiliation (US Ranking)"
Below is a list of US universities by number of Fields medalists currently affiliated. I thought some would find this information interesting so here you go. Please let me know if I'm missing...
View ArticleEconomist on "Is Iran the next Venezuela?"
Both countries are petrostates and have suffered from hyperinflation and currency devaluation. The Venezuelans are starving and their currency is worth less than toilet paper, is Iran next?
View ArticleEconomist on "Nobel Prize Winner [Hart] Joins Blockchain Startup To Fix Smart...
"Long before blockchain was cool, Nobel Prize-winning economist Oliver Hart was into contracts. As far back as 1976, the doctor of economics from Princeton University had been exploring how...
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 "Tell me how you call this confidential brochure for VVIP"
How do you call this?I heard banks like Goldman Sachs provides a confidential brochure-like stuff to VVIP only. What's it called? I am NOT asking about the specific proper noun for the specific Goldman...
View ArticleEconomist on "How fast do you read and truly understand a journal article?"
Will I ever learn how to read and thoroughly understand a journal article in less than a day? I took a course last semester where we had to read, review and critique a paper weekly and I never in my...
View ArticleEconomist on "They said there would be bodybuilding tips"
but mostly it is a bunch of aspie virgins muttering about how to meet women.two words: BODYBUILDING!
View ArticleEconomist on "Chair says "APs and research ideas are like hens and eggs""
You should have new ones daily and give them away freely.
View ArticleEconomist on "I like sig(nificance) stars and I cannot lie"
I like sig stars and I cannot lie My econbros cannot deny When a presenter puts up a table and does not show significance labels You're bummed. Gotta use the rules of thumb: Is coefficient vs. standard...
View ArticleEconomist on "Chair says I need to work harder not smarter"
Especially on his pet projects
View ArticleEconomist on "Families earning $117,000 now qualify as "low income" in...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A report out this week from the Department of Housing and Urban Development finds the median price for a single-family home in the Bay Area is now $935,000. A family earning $117,000...
View ArticleEconomist on "Why people can accept going to industry?"
All the PHD efforts are wasted if you end up going to industry. I cannot imagine people can accept the idea of not staying in academia after so many years spent in graduate school (esp if one has done...
View ArticleEconomist on "Desperate with math camp"
I haven't understood a word since math camp started. Plus everyone seems smarter than me. I'm at a good MRM.I'm a lemon. There goes my hope to place in academia.
View ArticleEconomist on "US Real wages are actually dropping, what am I missing here?"
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-18/trump-s-tax-cut-hasn-t-done-anything-for-workersYeah I know tax cuts on rich people and firms, blah blah blah, higher wages blah blah blah.I don't...
View ArticleEconomist on "Top Field or Second Tier General Interest?"
Second year AP. JMP just got dinged at a top 5. My department only one senior in my field (and he is likely to retire before I go up), so I worry that top field might not carry the weight that an IER,...
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