Economist on "Why do LRM universities award PhDs?"
I doubt they make much money from tuition or fees. Is it all expected future donations?
View ArticleEconomist on "Erin Krupka to TAMU?"
I heard from some TAMU people that Erin Krupka will join TAMU starting from fall. Any insider?
View ArticleEconomist on "I'm scared bros"
I've been getting into my research and slowly I've been starting to be more interested in that than EJMR. Help me bros - help me!
View ArticleEconomist on "Cover Story: The truth about US manufacturing | The Christian...
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2016/0806/The-truth-about-US-manufacturing"Yes, free trade and the cheaper goods it provides have cost the American jobs, but not as many as feared."
View ArticleEconomist on "Researchers or Corporate Allies? Think Tanks Blur the Line |...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/us/politics/think-tanks-research-and-corporate-lobbying.html"Think tanks are seen as independent, but their scholars often push donors’ agendas, amplifying a culture...
View ArticleEconomist on "'Pokemon Go' not inclusive enough, needs government...
No joke.http://www.urban.org/urban-wire/pokemon-go-changing-how-cities-use-public-space-could-it-be-more-inclusive
View ArticleEconomist on "Have you done anything academically dishonest in research?"
I've been living under a rock and just heard about the PoliSci LaCour scandal.Labour could have easily got away with it. It makes me wonder how many LaCours are living among us. Some of them may even...
View ArticleEconomist on "SUNY Stonybrook Underrated??"
USNews has their math department 25th in the country. Not to shabby.Are SUNY Schools underrated?
View ArticleEconomist on "Are Low-Skill Workers America's Next Great Economic Resource? |...
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/a-resource-for-the-us-to-tap-in-the-next-decade-its-low-skill-workers/494852/"Some economists think that continued GDP growth will require restoring...
View ArticleEconomist on "Bay Area Housing Bubble"
Just for fun I revisited the "Marin POS" blog, which covered the last Bay Area housing bubble. Here's a house they mocked in 2006, listed at...
View ArticleEconomist on "Trained animals should be allowed in the Olympics"
Let's see who is really the best.
View ArticleEconomist on "What is the greatest invention in human history? What made the...
What was it? The automobile? The light bulb? The internet?
View ArticleEconomist on "Most important idea for law that's emerged from economics in...
http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/Eric Posner says it's quadratic voting.
View ArticleEconomist on "Nicholas Cox"
No, he will never win the Nobel, but the sum of this man's contributions to economics is enormous. I'll bet everyone here, ugrads included, have relied, at some point on, an answer he posted to...
View ArticleEconomist on "Oldrich Kyn's website"
I only recently discovered this, and it has to be the most "Web 1.0" website that still exists.http://oldrichkyn.com/OK_Economics.htmSo many graphics. So many moving buttons. So good.My favorite part...
View ArticleEconomist on "Struggling with working from home (as an AP)"
I'm an AP at a LAC. I don't go to campus unless I have meetings or teaching, because (1) I live 45 min away and (2) the department is not the collegial type, and most faculty (majority are deadwoods or...
View ArticleEconomist on "Does industry leave time for life?"
My research is not moving and I'm constantly stressed because I certainly won't get tenure at this rate. I feel guilty pretty much all the time when I'm not working, even when I'm out to dinner or at...
View ArticleEconomist on "What happened to the history of economic thought website?"
Some new school (nyc) dude was doing it, I think italian. My link died. It was a useful site.
View ArticleEconomist on "Explain your economic failure, Anglo-Saxons"
2007 US GDP per capita: 48061 2007 UK GDP per capita: 483222016 US GDP per capita: 53041 2016 UK GDP per capita: 41784(all figures in PPP) (immigrant population in US: 14.3%, immigrant population in...
View ArticleEconomist on "Katrina and the Wives: the effects of natural disaster exposure...
What's up, bietches? you fiecking thought you were safe, fiecking job market meat? YOU FIECKING THOUGHT!!! But I'm ready to RAEP you on your flyouts while sipping gumbo and swallowing a french...
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