Economist on "What do y'all think of this - ignoble nominations"
http://timharford.com/2018/10/nominations-for-a-silly-economics-prize-with-a-deeper-purpose/
View ArticleEconomist on "Randy Wright stories"
Everyone share your favorite Randy Wright story! Mine is the time that a prostitute handcuffed him to a hotel bedpost and stole his stuff (Randy is actually proud of this and loves to tell it).
View ArticleEconomist on "Wife is at a seminar for lawyers and was told to read"
The Black SwanI texted her, “Taleb is a crank”She said “I know”My heart is full
View ArticleEconomist on "Econ departments vs Business Schools"
Economics departments tell you that profit maximization is the only objective of firms and businesses. Business Schools tell you that maintaining a long-term competitive advantage while acting in the...
View ArticleEconomist on "Roubini getting trolled hard.."
https://mobile.twitter.com/nouriel/status/1053599269113004032I don’t know where he finds the energy to argue with some many people, so often
View ArticleEconomist on "Favorite writing tools"
What are your favorite writing tools, and why?Personally, I love my Fisher Bullet Space Pen. It's easy to carry around and you can write everywhere with it. But when I sit down to write I prefer a...
View ArticleEconomist on "Gelman on Taleb (trigger warning!)"
"a plain-speaking yet deep revealer of true structures, a philosophical autodidact with a unique combination of...
View ArticleEconomist on "Chinese academics who set google scholar profiles to...
Do they not realise that this will inflate their citation counts (given shared names) to ridiculous levels (and leave them looking unprofessional)? Or is it a deliberate strategy to raise profile?For...
View ArticleEconomist on "You can do it!"
I didn’t want to be just a regression champion; I wanted to be the best economist of all times.Deep, deep down ask yourself, “Who do you want to be?” Not what, but who. I’m talking about figuring it...
View ArticleEconomist on "Why do wizards need a separate monetary policy?"
And why choose one that leaves you entirely at the mercy of the Bank of England in determining the rate of exchange between wizard money and muggle money? There's literally no advantage to having a...
View ArticleEconomist on "Best non-flagship public universities?"
Obviously a few of the UC's and Penn State Philly campus. What else?
View ArticleEconomist on "Lost 30k in the stock market in October"
Pretty devastating. I had written a small model the predicted stock prices a couple of days out. I traded based on this model. It worked well for about a year and my account was up 16k (from 40k). But...
View ArticleEconomist on "The paper I am writing right now is the best one of my career"
or perhaps I am just drunk.
View ArticleEconomist on "Meetings with advisor in third year"
I am in my third year and I have hardly met my advisor so far. I don't have much to talk about since I am still looking for a topic. Is this normal?
View ArticleEconomist on "With all these trade wars and dictators in power"
What will happen to the world bank and imf in 10 years?
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
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