Economist on "Does the UK have any talent?"
Does the UK have any good Economists. With the salaries low even at places like LSE, OXON and and CANTAB, how do they not lose everyone to greener pastures?
View ArticleEconomist on "Eastern Economic Association Conference"
Bros and Broettes,How many of you are here? Let's meet at the lobby for a drink.
View ArticleEconomist on "Settling the UK discussion for once and for all"
H1: US unis are naturally good H2: UK unis are naturally bad H3: a naturally good university is demonstrably good iff it employs branding officers to avoid tarnishing reputation H4: a naturally bad...
View ArticleEconomist on "Efe Ok's math texts unreliable, confirmed"
LOL just LOL at defining polynomials over T as functions f:T->ℝ, where T is a nonempty subset of R, such that for all t in T $$f(t)=a_0+a_1t+\dotsm+a_m...
View ArticleEconomist on "Does the UK have a respectable PhD program"
Does the UK have a single PhD program in Economics that could be considered better than a LRM?
View ArticleEconomist on "Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons - N N Taleb"
https://medium.com/incerto/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surgeons-23b0e2cf6d52#.zdpd9wpzfSurgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons Literature doesn’t look like literature –Business plans are for suckers —...
View ArticleEconomist on "Big names held to lower standards"
Why does it seem like big name economists at top schools are held to a much lower standard when publishing (and publish so much rubbish in top journals) whereas on the other hand less established...
View ArticleEconomist on "Honest question: what is the difference between publishing in...
Versus publishing in the AER? Both are prestigious publications. They both involve a sort of peer review: Editors can ask for revisions to clarify, corroborate, or provide further evidence. They're...
View ArticleEconomist on "We should make medical school an undergraduate option."
Then we can pay doctors less.
View ArticleEconomist on "Top 10 Turkish Economists"
Let's have a fun exercise. Who are the top 10 Turkish economists? My list is (ranked according to last name):1. Atila Abdulkadiroglu 2. Daran Acemoglu 3. Hulya Eraslan 4. Faruk Gul 5. Fatih Guvenen 6....
View ArticleEconomist on "Uber fares only cover 40% of the actual ride cost..."
While venture capitalist pay the remaining 60%. What? I read it in this storyhttp://jalopnik.com/uber-is-doomed-1792634203but haven't found any link to this actually being calculated somewhere...
View ArticleEconomist on "A small act of revenge against schools that didnt interview me"
I send back those cards saying I an a black woman. Hopefully they get in trouble for not having interviews that match their applicant pool.
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 "Started titling papers like millennials title articles"
Finished running regressions. You won't believe what I found...
View ArticleEconomist on "Old story about a mistake in a paper by one of Arrow's teachers"
Summers writes in Arrow: "It was another lesson for me when, many years ago, a paper was published correcting a famous analysis published by one of Kenneth’s teachers. At the time, it created a stir. I...
View ArticleEconomist on "The Grad Student and the Job"
A very poor grad student flew to a campus where there was a luscious looking job. A job had never looked so good, and the grad student was broke. However, the questions during the talk were harder than...
View ArticleEconomist on "How to legally kick out a grad student"
say, he has passed comps and is not one of your advisees?
View ArticleEconomist on "Got rejected by a girl in front of my advisor"
I have a strong crush on a girl in my cohort, and I was at a seminar today and she was there as expected.After it was over, she walked out the door and I ran after her.She didn't get far when I turned...
View ArticleEconomist on "I have extremely good peripheral vision: Which subfield should...
2nd year bro here with amazing peripheral vision. I have always had extremely sensitive peripheral vision. Like a bat. Better. More like a hawk. I can sense subtle movements hundreds of yards...
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