Economist on "Rich asians buying real estate all over the world with trade...
How do we stop this virus? It's making it almost impossible for younger adults to live in what was once the best cities in the world (london, NYC, SF, Vancouver,Toronto, etc) What's the best solution...
View ArticleEconomist on "Using undergrad textbooks in PhD"
I am in a very low ranked school, and our program is very light on math. No proof, we used Baby Wooldridge as our main metrics book. There were supplementary handouts but baby wooldridge was the main...
View ArticleEconomist on "How to travel during grad school?"
No money saved, is there anything like study abroad? Even more importantly, how can one visit Cuba?
View ArticleEconomist on "Having bad coauthors is actually worse than writing solo"
True story. I am crying this night...
View ArticleEconomist on "Potential Scandal: Economists Associated with Shady Company"
As first reported on the poliscirumors board:The "empowr" website is a multi-level marketing scheme that preys on poor people: http://www.empowr.com/socnet/EmpowrSISU.aspxIt promises riches but makes...
View ArticleEconomist on "NYTimes anti-trade article today"
The anti-trade backlash, building for years, has become explosive because the global economy has arrived at a sobering period of reckoning. Years of investment manias and financial machinations that...
View ArticleEconomist on "Official Economics Nobel Prize 2016 Predictions thread"
taking predictions for next year. lets go!i say romer.
View ArticleEconomist on "Economists: look at how sociologists have butchered this article"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_homicides_in_Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez#Motives
View ArticleEconomist on "Guide to Common EJMR Posters for New Users"
Welcome to EJMR! You will quickly notice several common types of posters. To save you the trouble, I thought I would map from what they post to their true identities. 1. The susperstar who mocks...
View ArticleEconomist on "David Graeber's insightful views on labor economics"
Republished by---you guessed it---evonomics.com:<blockquotes> If someone had designed a work regime perfectly suited to maintaining the power of finance capital, it’s hard to see how they could...
View ArticleEconomist on "Whatever happened at the Minneapolis Fed?"
I stopped paying attention to the situation sometime after the Kocherlakotacaust and the big shakeup. I know he stepped down. Has the successor reverted any of his changes and re-established close ties...
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 "Fining Murder"
People have an easier time rationalizing their decisions when they can do so with a number value, since we are saturated with prices and costs we develop an intuition for money. People don't know what...
View ArticleEconomist on "What's the biggest meme research in economics?"
I would say experimental economics or feminist economics.
View ArticleEconomist on "Even an economist can appreciate this kind of qualitative...
http://qz.com/779452/this-woman-become-a-sex-worker-at-a-brothel-in-nevada-to-do-field-work-for-her-phd/I'll be front row at her job talk.
View ArticleEconomist on "What to do when you realize you suck at research"
I'm 4 years out and haven't produced anything.Time to stop deceiving myself.What should I do? I don't even like teaching anymore. Industry scares me but there's no choice.
View ArticleEconomist on ""Footnote Seven" (with apologies to Robert Planet, Jimmy Page)"
There’s three ladies quite sure How to hide papers old. They just cite them in footnote seven. If in body text they know That their cover would be blown This way they get the pub that they came for....
View ArticleEconomist on "Separate subforum for journal referees"
Krk we journal referees are often hammered on EJMR. Could you please create a separate subforum for referees so that we can fight back? Your urgent attention to this issue would be highly appreciated.
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