Econgossips

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How much do econ university professors earn?

Here are the salaries at University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). The range seems to be: Assistant professors 100-120k; full professors 170-300k (fields like history pay about half that). Salary of profs at other state universities can be found by searching here.

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Job market horror story

Chris Blattman tells one and asks for more. I posted my own which is: The department head invited me to dinner to his house after the talk, his wife got drunk and hit on me.
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The Queen of academic rankings

Anne-Wil Harzing created Publish or Perish and became the queen of academic rankings. This is her journal quality aggregator.
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Who's the guy with the bow tie and the big S?

Jeff Frankel solves the mistery (I think that Frankel is the one with the SF --Stanley Fischer?-- sign).

More PK material: Why he got it in his own words. Here is Dixit on PK, and here is the full name of one of his precursours.

Here is the unofficial website, full of intersting material.

PS
The picture is from a skit party in the mid 70s. Compare the techonolgy with this.
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Macroeconomics porn

More often than not, I don't share the views of Arnold Kling, but this paragrah is beautiful: I have always thought that the issue of the relationship between financial markets and the "real economy" was really deep. I thought that it was a critical part of macroeconomic theory that was poorly developed. But the economics profession for the past thirty years instead focused on producing stochastic calculus porn to satisfy young men's urge for mathematical masturbation.
Found here.
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What did Heckman say to Cochrane?

A summary of the controversy around the Milton Friedman Institute is in the David Warsh link here (maybe I shodul say something about my friend Hussein, but I don't have time now). A NYT article is here. Here is John Cochrane's summary of the controversy. BUT, the full text of the message from James Heckman to John Cochrane is here (need to go to the end of the article).

ADDENDUM
The last link may not always work. So, here it is: Heckman e-mailed Cochrane a terse response to his concerns: “Screw off, John,” he said.
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I had forgotten about

this. It was indeed a great essay.
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Nouriel's (not so) secret life

Here (I used to tell him that he should put little flags inside those plaster vulvas). See, economists can be cool.
(found on MR)
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How much do economists earn?

Daniel Hamermesh has the data. Another interesting post on the subject is here.
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So, Summers was right after all?

Lawrence Summers lost his job as Harvard President for discussing possible genetic reasons for the gender gap in science. Now, the data say that he may have been into something, but the spin is in a different direction. Here is Alex Tabarrok. Here is Mankiw on the same topic.

In the meantime, Harvard missed an opportunity to hire a top female economist. People at Berkeley are very happy, but the decision by Harvard's first female president is hard to rationalize.
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Technical progress and universities...

Brad De Long ponders on the future of University professors (need to ponder on this when you go on the job market)...here
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What to say in (economics) conferences

George Stigler, via Justin Wolfers, via Paul Krugman. The Krugman post is here.

This reminded me of an old email with a discussion on how to interpret scientific phrases.
For instance:
"This research has left many questions unanswered." - I didn't find anything of significance.
"It is hoped that this study will stimulate further investigation in this field" - I quit.
The full list is here.
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Subsidies in academia

From Marginal Revolution, the post is here

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