Economist on "Finance PhDs salaries are too high"
u make too muchI have a PolSci PhD and my 12mth salary is 50k in a top25 school.
View ArticleEconomist on "Industry Jobs?"
Depends. Do you have a top 5? If so, many options. Otherwise, get top 5, then dream job.
View ArticleEconomist on "Stanford's 2013 placement is "still in progress...""
How bad a year was it overall? At my MRM department, placements were decent but not outstanding, and we've certainly had worse years in recent memory. I don't think there's even been a year this bad....
View ArticleEconomist on "Quang Vuong (from Vuong Test) to NYU!!! Confirmed!!"
Has anyone realized that the last 3 high profile departures from Penn are all dudes with super long hairInsider here. Yes and it's not a coincidence.
View ArticleEconomist on "Stanford's 2013 placement is "still in progress...""
Some rise, some down, thus can't say it's bad year. But LRM is LRM, we have to face it.I don't think there's even been a year this bad. At my LRM department it was an absolute disaster :(
View ArticleEconomist on "Niall Ferguson: Keynes didn't care about future generations...
Every other week, somebody else in Harvard economics or HBS demonstrates that they are a vicious fool, spouting nonsense in service of our reactionary rulers. Shouldn't one conclude, by induction, that...
View ArticleEconomist on "Niall Ferguson: Keynes didn't care about future generations...
i just can't believe he wasn't fired after that embarrassing newsweek article
View ArticleEconomist on "Niall Ferguson: Keynes didn't care about future generations...
i just can't believe he wasn't fired after that embarrassing newsweek articlewhy this time? i'm european, didn't know anything about Niall Ferguson 'til i found this thread, but when his wikipedia...
View ArticleEconomist on "Niall Ferguson: Keynes didn't care about future generations...
"did it again" way to early in the morning for me.
View ArticleEconomist on "Niall Ferguson: Keynes didn't care about future generations...
^^because the idea that keynes didn't care about the long run is bulls**t
View ArticleEconomist on "Niall Ferguson: Keynes didn't care about future generations...
Please explain how so. I honestly want to learn. His policy of 'digging up a hole and then filling it up' or constant spending of the stateare pretty infeasible for the long run. Again where were his...
View ArticleEconomist on "Niall Ferguson: Keynes didn't care about future generations...
Not a Keynesian here, but the "digging holes" thing was more of a rhetoric trick - which clearly worked, even too well - than the expression of a systematic point of view. Just...
View ArticleEconomist on "Niall Ferguson: Keynes didn't care about future generations...
At least, "rednecks" donĀ“t molest boys.unless they're related.....
View ArticleEconomist on "Niall Ferguson: Keynes didn't care about future generations...
Still,his masterpiece,the General Theory does not have any longterm insights does it?Not a Keynesian here, but the "digging holes" thing was more of a rhetoric trick - which clearly worked, even too...
View ArticleEconomist on "rochester placement rocks"
Or may be they should make the 3rd year paper requirements (or proposal defense) stricter, rather than being strict in the 2nd year qualifying exams.
View ArticleEconomist on "Niall Ferguson: Keynes didn't care about future generations...
The General Theory contains comments about long run theory and applications.
View ArticleEconomist on "Niall Ferguson: Keynes didn't care about future generations...
Read Leijonhufvud, On Keynesian Economics and the Economics of Keynes.
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