Economist on "Morgan Stanely Managing Director vs Tenured Top 20 Professor"
Which one would you choose?Good = Goldman Sachs MD No good = Tenured top 20 professor
View ArticleEconomist on "The one form of diversity that diversity committees do not care...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/opinion/academias-rejection-of-diversity.htmlONE of the great intellectual and moral epiphanies of our time is the realization that human diversity is a blessing. It...
View ArticleEconomist on "MIT/Harvard PhDs who don't have a pub in top journals"
not even in QJE or AER P&P. Are they lemons? One of my colleagues is one of those and I can imagine why. Not only is she no giod p, she is super pompous and no one in the department likes her. I...
View ArticleEconomist on "Last word on vegetarianism and sentience | MR"
What's up job market LOSERS. You THOUGHT you are safe because youre S-E-N-T-I-E-N-T? YOU FIEKING THOUGHT!!!! I am going to FIEK you in the GHEY BAY. I will FIEK you until you BLEED and then MARRY one...
View ArticleEconomist on "Would you trust a non econbro with econometrics?"
Under any circumstances? What would their training/experience/cv need to look like for you to think they were competent?
View ArticleEconomist on "How would a major recession in 2016 affect your work view?"
Krugman is gloating about all the jobs that Obama personally created during his presidency. But let's say there was a major crash and recession in late 2016 that was *worse* than 2008: massive layoffs,...
View ArticleEconomist on "Never date an economist"
Date an MBA. Find him in the squalor of a Midtown sports bar. Or an overpriced nightclub. He'll be wearing the same button-down everyone else is. Engage him and he'll tell you about his salary, his...
View ArticleEconomist on "Bros, I just gave my first TV interview"
For a local station. Complete disaster. They sent me an email asking if I could record a small Skype interview. I assumed it was radio, then they ask me to turn on the camera. So I am sitting there in...
View ArticleEconomist on "Ultimate Office Chair/Desk"
Well I know what I'm buying with my first AP paycheck...http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2015/10/28/the-altwork-station-is-an-automated-desk-and-chair-rig-that-feels-like-working-on-a-cloud/
View ArticleEconomist on "EJMR job market candidates"
Believe me 2015 will be a good year for EJMR candidates.
View ArticleEconomist on "For those of you who didn't study econ in undergrad"
did you feel as if you were at a disadvantage compared to your peers?
View ArticleEconomist on "STATA is giving very low R-squares this week"
Been a bad week. The highest R-squared STATA has given me is 0.02. I will see if I can get batter luck, using EVIEWS, with this dataset I am working with. I think STATA is upset with me.
View ArticleEconomist on "Lemon at MIT vs Star at BU"
Which life would you want? Typical career paths:Lemon at MIT --> go to industry, make $$$$$ in Cornerstone/McKinsey/Goldman Star at BU --> AP at LSE --> fail tenure, another 6 years at Kansas...
View ArticleEconomist on "LRM AP accused of Academic Dishonesty"
By this website. http://campaignforaccountability.org/cfa-report-reveals-payday-lenders-paid-for-at-least-one-favorable-academic-study/Discuss
View ArticleEconomist on "Always pull this card in seminars"
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View ArticleEconomist on "Is there a useful version of EJMR, with more econ and less...
Asking for a friend.
View ArticleEconomist on "Have any of Akerlof's students..."
...been lemons? The irony in that would be too much.
View ArticleEconomist on "Is there something that Ed Glaeser hasn't commented on?"
In basically every single paper I've seen published in the last 20 years, there's a section for which the author thanks commentators and Edward Glaeser is ALWAYS f*cking there. ALWAYS. Reads this paper...
View ArticleEconomist on "R-square as a measure of a reg monkey's stupidity"
Well crafted models with sound theoretical footing should yield good fits. Therefore, I propose R-squares as a measure of stupidity of the reg monkey and adjusted r-squared as a measure of the ability...
View ArticleEconomist on "Learning the New Keynesian Approach"
Which is a better text resource, Gali or Woodford?
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