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[http://macromomblog.com/2020/12/01/economic-truly-is-a-disgrace/ Claudia Sahm's 2020 firing from her think tank job for writing  a blog post critical of the economics establishment] and [http://macromomblog.com/2020/07/29/economics-is-a-disgrace/ the post that got her fired.]
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*[http://macromomblog.com/2020/12/01/economic-truly-is-a-disgrace/ Claudia Sahm's 2020 firing from her think tank job for writing  a blog post critical of the economics establishment] and [http://macromomblog.com/2020/07/29/economics-is-a-disgrace/ the post that got her fired.]
  
==Seminars==
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*[https://twitter.com/florianederer/status/1458623751298420748 Econ D and D cards]
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People sometimes ask me about honoraria, and my answer is that I'd like whatever honorarium your group customarily pays for similar events. If it doesn't normally pay an honorarium, I'll generally be glad to do it for free; I view it as part of the "service" component of a professor's job ("research / teaching / service"), and it's part that I enjoy. But if you'd like to send me a locally themed care package (three places so far have done that), especially items that I can display or eat or drink on the video, I think that makes for a fun extra connection for the audience—a little bit more like I was physically there. In any case, please let me know if some group you're involved with would be interested. --Professor Eugene Volokh, https://reason.com/volokh/2021/01/19/have-zoom-wont-need-to-travel-4/ (2021)
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==Getting a PhD==
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[http://li.dyson.cornell.edu/phdRes.php Resources for PhD Students], a very large link page by Prof. Li at Cornell.
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==Physics Envy==
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A lot of non-mathy people have not physics envy, but physicist envy. They think there's too much math in economics, but also think that physicists are really really smart and wise, way more than economists, and physicists never write silly papers. But physicists are just people too, though, like people with a PhD in economics, the need to learn a lot of math means that they all do have much  higher IQ's than the general population.  
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Latest revision as of 13:13, 11 November 2021

Getting a PhD

Resources for PhD Students, a very large link page by Prof. Li at Cornell.

Physics Envy

A lot of non-mathy people have not physics envy, but physicist envy. They think there's too much math in economics, but also think that physicists are really really smart and wise, way more than economists, and physicists never write silly papers. But physicists are just people too, though, like people with a PhD in economics, the need to learn a lot of math means that they all do have much higher IQ's than the general population.