Academic Pedigree
The other day, Andrew Postlewaite remarked that it is very hard to find a PhD economist whose academic ancestor thrice removed, was not a mathematician. Put differently, which PhD economists can trace...
View ArticleBiting One’s Tongue
One of the most engaging books of academic politics, is C. P. Snow’s `The Masters’. In it, a scene describing the debate between factions (Science and Arts) over who should be elected to a college...
View ArticleFields Medal & Productivity
The Fields medals will be awarded this week in Seoul. What does the future hold for the winners? According to Borjas and Doran, declining productivity caused by a surfeit of dilettantism. The data...
View ArticleCollege Admissions
There is a brief period in a professor’s life when they are the lion of the dinner table and toast of the town. Its when the children of their friends and contemporaries are about to enter college. To...
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Econ PhD Placement
Chu Kin Chan, an undergraduate student from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has collected the placement statistics of the top 10 PhD programs in Economics from the last 4 years. You can find the...
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Medawar’s Test
There is a test for `smarts’ that Sir Peter Medawar was fond of. I often think of it when teaching equilibrium. If you have ever seen an El Greco, you will notice that the figures and faces are...
View ArticleNew Linear Algebra Division
Empire State University today announced a new Division of Linear Algebra and Information. It is the university’s largest program change in decades and helps secure its status among the country’s top...
View ArticleWhat I Learnt from Chat GPT
While my colleagues have been using Chat GPT to determine what it knows about important things, such as sunk costs and elasticity of demand, I was curious to learn what it knew about me. Here is a...
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