Economist on "Favoritism for one junior AP over another"
I'm in a small department. There are only three senior profs who can vote on tenure. One is the chair, and is too busy to pay attention. One is semi retired and checked out. The third is very involved...
View ArticleEconomist on "How can people like George Soros and Ray Dalio make so much...
Investment should be a business requiring superior technical skills in math/stats/CS and superior understanding of how the economy works. But none of these people have formal training in these.
View ArticleEconomist on "Proposal: delay referee reports on UT Austin faculty papers"
Sorry brahs. But if a department cannot function then there is no point in that department existing. If you took on PhD students then you you cannot be assholes otherwise you are revealing to the rest...
View ArticleEconomist on "Sam Bowles and Herb Gintis"
Are these guys truly genius? It seems like 2015 Econ Nobel will go to them. This is what being discussed in Swedes circle
View ArticleEconomist on "Chicaotribune releases recipe to Acemoglu's favorite chicken."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/recipes/ct-kfc-recipe-test-20160818-story.htmlBros its current article.
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 "I know it's only two observations, but it is provocative and it...
Great Depression -> NazismGreat Recession -> Neo-nazism Angry people seeing their quality of life go down are scueptible to nationalistic propaganda and xenophobia
View ArticleEconomist on "LAC APs: how is social interaction within your department?"
I started at a top-20 LAC last year, and I'm feeling extremely isolated. Perhaps it's because I'm used to being at R1s, where people are always buzzing to one another about research, however aspie they...
View ArticleEconomist on "Why are Harvard and MIT considered the best?"
Problems: 1. Train students with 20 year old text books 2. Corrupt as hell 3. Insular as hell 4. Reg monkeys I just don't get it
View ArticleEconomist on "What keeps you in a low-paying, low-prestige academic job?"
My salary sucks compared to industry options, I'm constantly frustrated with my politicking deadwood colleagues and entitled students, I have a long commute, and difficulty publishing. I may get...
View ArticleEconomist on "Can't there at least be one economics discussion thread going...
Just one on topic thread at any given time. That's all I ask.
View ArticleEconomist on "Ray Dalio vs John Cochrane"
Which one would you want to be? Good for Ray Dalio, no good for John Cochrane.
View ArticleEconomist on "Which economists will be remembered 5000 years?"
Political philosophy is the ancient version of economics, and people noeadays still remember Socrates, Plato, etc.
View ArticleEconomist on "Is MRM econ PhD worth it?"
As an MRM PhD, the chance of becoming a recognized scholar is close to zero. If you go to industry, you'll most likely make less than $140k a year and peak at $200-250k in your life, which is far less...
View ArticleEconomist on "Is Shiller humble or arrogant?"
Bob Shiller seems like a nice, easygoing guy, but is he really?Please comment if you have worked with him.
View ArticleEconomist on "Economists Ranking"
Stiglitz Alesina List Krugman Fama Heckman Deaton Sargent Acemoglu Barro Levitt Shiller Rogoff Sheinkman Manski
View ArticleEconomist on "What a Bad Decision Looks Like in the Brain | The Atlantic"
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/what-a-bad-decision-looks-like-in-the-brain/497402/"Economics hasn’t been able to explain irrational choices. Can neuroscience?"
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 "Best financial economics textbooks of all time"
Merton's "Continuous-Time Finance"?
View ArticleEconomist on "EC is about to rule that Apples owes 1 billion euros in back...
http://fortune.com/2016/08/30/apple-eu-ireland-tax/Did you guys short or do you think that its already priced in?
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