Economist 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 "Scientific writing book"
Is there any book,manual that really made a difference on your writing skills?
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 "Time for new MTG cards on the amicus mafia"
Some new stats to includePersonality Integrity Racism Corruption
View ArticleEconomist on "A lot of economists missed Romer’s point"
There are economists who arguing about things in “our literature” that are demonstrably evident in the real world. Why are we not more upset about this? It is as if we are only arguing about imaginary...
View ArticleEconomist on "There have been 2 suicides at Stanford GSB in the past 8 years."
I didn't believe this, but I checked with a colleague there and it's actually true. This is just unacceptable, especially for a program that has such few students.
View ArticleEconomist on "Duflo in the field"
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View ArticleEconomist on "Financial Times"
Is it journalism's version of the RESTUD tour? They seem to be obsessed with US-based econ profs.
View ArticleEconomist on "The UK AP wages are too damn low!"
I'll tell you how low it is! People are working 8 hours a day, and 40 hours a week, and some a third job. Women can’t afford to take care of their children, feed their children, breakfast, lunch and...
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 "Leaving academia?"
Serious thread. By all means, I’m doing well (8 years out, 3/4 top 5, tenured in a good place, I have an agenda I care about and like my city) ... but I have become curious to understand what could I...
View ArticleEconomist on "Financial Independence / Retire Early (FIRE)"
What do you bros think about this?https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/style/fire-financial-independence-retire-early.html he is part of a growing movement of young professionals who are intently focused...
View ArticleEconomist on "Donations and Discourse"
Is there a link?In my country, we have a term for academics/newspapers that play a repeated game with the wealthy in exchange for funds: "Mermeleros". Do you think this is going on at Economics...
View ArticleEconomist on "Sachs thinks 45 will kill the dollar"
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-policies-undermining-the-dollar-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2018-09
View ArticleEconomist on "How many people enter grad school intending to do Theory or...
The aspiring theorists in my cohort all started out wanting to do applied work in their first year
View ArticleEconomist on "On Buchanan, Knight, and Arthur Krock"
"One of the more fascinating pieces of evidence I examine in my article (with Art Carden and Vincent Geloso) on James M. Buchanan and the school desegregation crisis is an October 1957 letter that...
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