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Economist on "When colleagues talk to you while at the urinal"

Very uncomfortable. I go to another floor or bldg to avoid.

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Economist on "Magness is about to blow open Saez and Zucman"

It's going to be epic.

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Economist on "Is bargaining theory difficult to learn?"

Curious.

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Economist on "Economics Is Too Important to Be Left to Economists"

http://chronicle.com/article/Economics-Is-Too-Important-to/233335/

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Economist on "Academia is unfair"

Bad people often win and good people often lose.

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Economist on "Does Krugman show up to work at CUNY?"

Do you see him around? Does he come into the office? Is he advising students/teaching?

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Economist on "Since Raj moved, there’s a DiD estimator available"

Since Raj moved, there’s a DiD estimator available

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Economist on "Dean Susan Collins warned all Weill Hall personnels against...

I don't know the exact reason, but I heard through the grapevine that Susan Collins warned all Weill Hall personnels against posting any information on EJMR (actually SJMR too, because of discussion...

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Economist on "2nd year"

Is it normal to feel this dumb at the beginning of your second year?

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Economist on "Oil price game: Who will cry first?"

Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, or the USA?

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Economist on "For anyone planning on writing a textbook"

I'm pretty sure I speak for everyone when I say that textbooks full of verbiage are gabiage. Econ is an applied science and can only be fully understood by hands on practice and problem solving....

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Economist on "Has Endogeneity-Awareness from Econ Made You More Skeptical of...

Since joining my PhD program five years ago, I have since come to the conclusion that not only is identification virtually impossible in economics, but also in the natural sciences.From meteorology to...

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Economist on "Some one's pet undergrad"

In ULRM b-school, 3rd year AP. Most of the management bros and broette are cool, except one pain the ass 2nd year AP. She came into my office to ask that I find a way for her pet undergrad RA to "form...

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Economist on "Does GRE even measure anything?"

It's such a worthless exam. Why do schools need it?

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Economist on "I miss Humo."

http://i.imgur.com/neavB3K.jpg

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Economist on "Things that economists can do really well"

A lot of trash talk going on about the limited "real world" skills by average economists, but on the contrary, there are many things that economists are really good at. For example?

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Economist on "Lousy Departments housed in gorgeous campuses"

GMU

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Economist on "Is a PhD in economics necessary and sufficient to be called an...

Or is there more involved?

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Economist on "Does being an EJMR moderator count as service to the profession?"

Asking for a friend.

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Economist on "Holy crap OMG EJMR is BLUE"

Like the toilet cakes

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