Economist on "I had a dream in which I and my colleagues were discussing...
We were all actively engaged in intellectual discussion of critical and creative thinking. Ideas were being formulated and debated. Everyone was contributing to the discussion. Then I woke up. Back to...
View ArticleEconomist on "Can anyone stop you from including this in the acknowledgement:"
"Finally, I'd like to thank Ed Glaeser, as is the custom of our profession."
View ArticleEconomist on "Trump's Smart Choice for Economic Adviser | Noah "Nopub" Smith"
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-02/kevin-hassett-is-a-smart-choice-to-be-trump-s-economic-adviser
View ArticleEconomist on "Building Society: "House sellers 'should pay stamp duty'""
"In its present form, stamp duty does not suit today's housing market - it pushes up costs for those looking to buy, exacerbating affordability issues in a market where prices have vastly outpaced wage...
View ArticleEconomist on "In five years people are going to say sociologist instead of...
economics instead of rocket sciencesadditionally i predict that STEM will become SSTEEM(social sciences technology economics engineering and math)lots of people in the hard sciences already say...
View ArticleEconomist on "Quality of life in HK SGP"
How is quality of life in Hong Kong and Singapore compared to US? Please talk about both pros and cons.
View ArticleEconomist on "A new way to rank UK econ demartments"
k,where k is cost in pence to drive a Toyota Corolla from the department to behind the nearest Greggs bakery.
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 "LAC bro here: Someone shoot me"
We are "strongly encouraged" to assign writing assignments.Fine.But I have about 8 students from China in my class.FIECKING SHOOT ME!!!
View ArticleEconomist on "Poll: did you ever learn about prostitution/sex work in college?"
If so, what course?Do you teach about sex work in any of your courses? If so, which?
View ArticleEconomist on "Behavioral economics textbooks/lecture notes"
Any recommendations? Need to teach this course soon. Want to get some quick recipe.
View ArticleEconomist on "Research in Progress | Tumblr"
http://researchinprogress.tumblr.com/Good stuff.
View ArticleParentheses on "The lethal danger of re-using footnotes"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10657-015-9501-4Author has a little 1 next to his name. Footnote 1 reads:\(^1\)The first victim, Marc Dub, was killed immediately by the explosion.
View ArticleEconomist on "What did you have for lunch, UK bros?"
Every day, I stop work around 12:30, go fetch some lunch, and come back to my office to read some EJMR and posts by HateUKbro, to make my life seem less miserable. But no UK related post (as of...
View ArticleUhura on "Leaked NDA for Chetty Lab research assistants"
(got a picture but it was blurry, so I retyped it below)WHEREAS, Chetty Lab is in the business of supporting the work of the Director and, in particular, producing work of such brilliance that AER...
View ArticleEconomist on "Suck it up!"
PhD student in Accounting and get 40K stipend.You made us do stupid PhD econ micro sequence, which truly are so stupid courses!But we have much easier PhD training, much better stipends and make 2.5...
View ArticleEconomist on "Why is economics so useless?"
No hedge funds use DSGE to forecast the economy. No insurance firms use contract theory to design contract. No Fortune 500 companies use empirical corporate finance to manage their firms. ... ...The...
View ArticleEconomist on "Bitcoin is more expensive than gold"
Explain why. The surging price for bitcoin, the most widely recognized cryptocurrency, overtook the price of gold this week in a changing of the guard among assets that serve as an alternative to...
View ArticleEconomist on "Re: stud tour"
Who were the hottest male candidates on the market this season?
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