Economist on "Lucas crying! Loasing ALL HOAP!"
You tried to block his Nobel... and now he gets it...
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 "EJMR vs r/Badeconomics"
Do many post in both communities? I see a lot of parrelels.
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 "VLRM PhD students posting econ nonsense on FB/Twitter"
Can they please stop? Can their programs realize that their students don't understand sh*t?
View ArticleEconomist on "Schools with the most uppity PhD grads?"
Which school's PhD economics graduates think they are better than they really are?
View ArticleEconomist on "Why Americans are"
so mean to women? American men seem to be extremely misogynist. You elect people like Trump, Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich etc. who are serial womanizer and treat women like s**t. Even their own...
View ArticleEconomist on "My rationale for jumping ship to industry"
Academia has several perks over industry: research freedom, flexible hours, private offices. But after a few years, I realize those things don't matter as much to me. With freedom comes responsibility,...
View ArticleEconomist on "Is there any infant care program conditioned on both parents...
And is there any research on whether that program increases the LFPR?
View ArticleEconomist on "The problem with Uchicago (name+shame)"
I would like to make public a situation that has been transpiring at the University of Chicago for a while now. I won’t disclose my current position and year of graduation for fear of being identified....
View ArticleEconomist on "Question for seasoned industry bros..."
Are you aware of cases of competent individuals being pushed out of their jobs to make room for female candidates? This is something that worries me.
View ArticleEconomist on "Application for a JERB as an EJMR moderator"
To whom it may concern (most likely Kerk): I wish to apply for a JERB as a moderator. This will be my first JERB since I have never had a real JERB except for full time trolling. I believe that the...
View ArticleEconomist on "Biggest gap between where a prof was trained and where they teach"
Krugman (Princeton) at CUNY? Murphy (NYU) at Tech?What are other examples of this. How do you suppose this even happens?
View ArticleEconomist on "An economist goes to a football game..."
Drinks heavily, screams at the losing coach at the end of the game, gets arrested, great mugshot.http://deadspin.com/university-professor-arrested-for-yelling-f**k-you-at-1787590032Hats off to you, Dr....
View ArticleEconomist on "Angrist on econtalk"
I usually put this on once a week to help me fall asleep, but this episode gets so tense I cringed through the whole thing.Does angrist come across as an arrogant butthead or what?
View ArticleEconomist on "Africa is moving toward a massive and important free trade...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/07/14/the-7-things-you-need-to-know-about-africas-continental-free-trade-area/Development economists and international economists, would this...
View ArticleEconomist on "How do we alleviate traffic in cities where it's a problem?"
>promote mixed-use development>gas tax>toll roads in/around CBDs>promote some sort of railway, private is cool>exterminate the poor>provide incentives for businesses to let people...
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