Economist on "Who is the most attractive economist in history?"
My vote goes to Keynes and Raghuram Rajan
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 "Freakonomics: You're twice as likely to go from low to high...
Is the American Dream Really Dead? (http://freakonomics.com/podcast/american-dream-really-dead/)
View ArticleEconomist on "Tariffs on the US"
Countries charge U.S. companies taxes or tariffs while the U.S. charges them nothing or little. We should charge them SAME as they charge us!
View ArticleEconomist on "How can an economic historian support his dream of becoming a...
I have enough saved up that I can afford a yacht, and enough tucked away in a pension / savings that I'm not concerned about old age. I just want to sail from port to port in the exotic parts of the...
View ArticleEconomist on "Mediocre academic researchers should be wary of globalisation"
In a forthcoming paper in the Journal of Human Resources, George Borjas of Harvard University, and Kirk Doran and Ying Shen of the University of Notre Dame, study the effects of globalisation on a...
View ArticleEconomist on "University/institution ranking in ideas/repec"
The more number of researcher registered, the higher ranked?
View ArticleEconomist on "What percentage of PhD students are at LRM/MRM/HRM?"
And does the proportion change much by graduation time? In other words, which rank of monkeys have the highest attrition rate?
View ArticleEconomist on "Tenure-track in US without a green card = upper-class slavery?"
Is there a reason why the US takes so long to process permanent residency for sponsored foreign PhDs? Maybe the universities don't mind because once you're there, you can't leave. You have no industry...
View ArticleEconomist on "So how is the DOW now?"
People made a fuss about it being 20k some days ago... How is it now?
View ArticleEconomist on "Stephen Terry"
https://sites.google.com/site/stephenjamesterry/Dis he graduate from college at 16? Unbelievable.
View ArticleEconomist on "Alex Kane"
Alex Kane (of Bodie, Marcus, Kane) seems to have halved his age and left the field of finance for the more rewarding journalism, according to Amazon's More about the...
View ArticleEconomist on "What's the future of economics in America?"
Excellent!https://news.vice.com/story/jeff-sachs-on-economics-in-trumps
View ArticleEconomist on "Marginal student in my classes but writing a lot"
First year PhD. I'm doing the absolute minimum necessary work for my classes, but I have more research ideas than I can count. I've got several drafts already, and working on more. Hoping to start...
View ArticleEconomist on "New undergrads are starting to not know how to use computers"
It would never happen a few years ago, but lately I've been noticing a trend of computer illiterate undergrads in my computing class. Guess a highschool kid these days doesn't have need for a computer...
View ArticleEconomist on "Do NOT watch Louis C.K. videos before a presentation."
I ended up giving the worst examples of private information...
View ArticleEconomist on "Gelman takes his beef with Heckman into Science"
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6325/584
View ArticleEconomist on "Would a publication in Science help you if it's in the insights...
Is it worth anything at all?
View ArticleEconomist on "It's happening faster than I thought"
The truth is coming out too fast.https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-fed-staffer-says-central-bank-is-under-the-thumb-of-academics-1486551600My prediction of the destruction of the origin of the swamp...
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