Economist on "I wish I were HRM still"
Being MRM is truly a punishment. I can't imagine being LRM. Has to be harrible.
View ArticleEconomist on "Difference between econ phd and jihad"
With Jihad, you want to kill yourself to spend eternity with 72 virgins.In an economics Ph.D. program, you spend eternity with 72 virgins and then want to kill yourself.
View ArticleEconomist on "Reading some sociology propaganda a-la Hofstede cultural...
Economics is not that bad, bros
View ArticleEconomist on "Mankiw almost certainly going to Chicago"
Chicago needs to rebuild its macro scene and so made a million dollar offer to get Greg and offered him 5 lines (2 of them are tenured lines) for him to hire macroeconomists that he thinks would help...
View ArticleEconomist on "Which econ departments might be stripped of their national...
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/uw-madison-engineering-program-stripped-of-national-ranking-over-incorrect/article_78465d3e-e514-5c7e-a1eb-cbb1a8f04349.htmlWisconsin's...
View ArticleEconomist on "How do you check your NBER email?"
They gave me an in, but not enough to tell me how to check my email. Insiders, hmu.
View ArticleEconomist on "No need to take functional analysis, measure theory, or general...
The basic results of the three - and the results that are necessary for basic theory - are all covered in a good real analysis course.
View ArticleEconomist on "LOL@ delusional economists who entered the field to "improve...
I bet you're regretting it right about now. There are so many better ways to go about changing the world.
View ArticleEconomist on "Really troubling development: Kruggles vs. Sanders"
I'm anti-Krugman and anti-Bernie. What now ...?http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/opinion/sanders-over-the-edge.html?_r=0
View ArticleEconomist on "How come some economists are just really bad at writing?"
I'm talking about folks who come up with some really cool results, but they just cannot explain it clearly.
View ArticleEconomist on "Why did Hansen and Stiglitz share the Nobel Prize"
When Tirole and Deeton won solo awards? A great mystery...
View ArticleEconomist on "Do political science formal theorists use the same tool as econ...
And if so, how much conversation is there between the two in the political economy theory literature?
View ArticleEconomist on "Official Economics Nobel Prize 2016 Predictions thread"
taking predictions for next year. lets go!i say romer.
View ArticleEconomist on "Berkeley bros, drop your binders full of women and explain this...
What were you guys smoking?http://fss.berkeley.edu/seminar.php?sem_ID=SM007224 Economics 84, Section 1 Buddhist Economics (2 units, P/NP) Professor Clair Brown Wednesday 3:00-5:00, 2521 Channing Way,...
View ArticleEconomist on "Best micro theory department outside top 10"
I would say PennState. What do you think?
View ArticleEconomist on "Does Chetty or Clark have the better social mobility numbers?"
By Clark, I mean this guy: http://www.amazon.com/The-Son-Also-Rises-Princeton/dp/0691162549I presume you all know who Chetty is.
View ArticleEconomist on "Top 20 micro theory departments"
Which US departments are in top 20 in terms of micro theory?I start buy adding Princeton, NYU, UPenn and Northwestern. What else?
View ArticleEconomist on "I hate my cohort. Is this a problem?"
First year here. I can't stand any of the people in my year with exception for the silent foreign types who I don't actually know at all. Is this a problem in the long run? The rest are...
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