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Date: July 14th, 2018 4:58 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426751) |
Date: July 14th, 2018 4:58 PM Author: brilliant big-titted hospital really tough guy ECK or EEK? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426754) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:07 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha eek, but im prole (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426800) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 4:59 PM Author: citrine aromatic piazza What's the next behavioral economics? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426761) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:05 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha machine learned behavior. which is to say, just more bull shit regressions (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426791) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:07 PM Author: citrine aromatic piazza What is this machine learned behavior? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426802) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:09 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha using 'big data' to pin down functions (not necessarily linear) to describe agents' behavior under various conditions (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426810) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:13 PM Author: citrine aromatic piazza Boring! That's what everything is these days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426826) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:14 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha agreed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426829) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:08 PM Author: trip confused voyeur I feel like machine learning with non real time data is bs. Real time analysis is relatively unsophisticated still, but it will probably have a major impact in the future. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426805) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:00 PM Author: Startling Laser Beams Station predictions for ETH? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426763) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:05 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha strong support at 0 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426793) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:09 PM Author: sepia kitchen pistol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426808) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:09 PM Author: Startling Laser Beams Station nice fud (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426809) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:00 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo Should I do LRM phd? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426766) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:08 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426807) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:11 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo :( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426815) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:12 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha or yes, it doesnt matter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426820) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:12 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo Nah (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426821) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:13 PM Author: sepia kitchen pistol still gets you into econ consulting if you want to do that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426823) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:14 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo Are you serious what should I do dissertation on damage awards? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426828) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:14 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha game theory of soccer shoot outs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426831) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:15 PM Author: sepia kitchen pistol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426835) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:14 PM Author: sepia kitchen pistol anything applied micro with at least some applied metrics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426832) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:41 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo I set the curve in my law and econ class in undergrad. Then I went to law school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426924) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:42 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha what was that class abt? shit like 'moral hazard' and 'asymmetric info'? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426935) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:45 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo Cooter textbook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426954) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:49 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha not as bad as i was expecting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426970) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 5:54 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo Damn you must be so smart dude woah (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426992) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 7:48 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha didnt mean to be snarky. i just looked at the table of contents of the book and thought, "oh, the topics here look a lot more interesting than what's usually covered in a 'law and econ' book" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427524) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 6:00 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha the most insightful economics paper in the last 50 years was james tobin's 1972 presidential address to the american economics association, titled "unemployment and inflation" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427012) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 6:53 PM Author: flirting legal warrant resort Macroeconomics - total flame? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427244) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 7:41 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha basic conceptual macro is useful, but there havent really been any new insights added to that in abt 50 years. all most all 'modern', math heavy macro is utter flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427492) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 7:15 PM Author: Wine stag film Thoughts on prsaxeology? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427326) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 7:45 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha interesting. havent heard of this before (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427512) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 7:23 PM Author: very tactful fragrant trump supporter Is economics flame? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427355) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 7:45 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha as an ahistorical study of how agents allocate resources and interact, yes. as the study of how actual economies, with specific institutional and government arrangements, function, no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427511) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 7:47 PM Author: flirting legal warrant resort Do you have an Econ PhD or masters? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427522) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 7:49 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha no, although i did all the course work that a typical 1st year phd student would take (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427526) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 8:43 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo You took advanced micro and macro ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427777) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 8:47 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha yeah
plus time series, int'l macro, IO, and some other random stuff |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 8:47 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo Was it 180? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427790) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 8:49 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha reading some of the old macro articles from the 30s-70s was interesting. the textbooks + lectures + problem sets were, imo, a lot useless 'applied' math (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427799) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 8:50 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo Ooof (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427802) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:23 PM Author: lemon razzle private investor location Same - I started in Econ phd and took first 1.5 years then switched to stats due to hating econ. Econ was fucking absurd - we basically didn't even touch data the entire first year it was absurdly theoretical (although admittedly the department I was in was very heavy in micro theory / game theory).
But even the first year econometrics sequence (Greene book obviously) was basically all proof based / theoretical. I then moved over to stats and LOVED it - stats was like a fucking hub of research for the entire university. People collaborated with statisticians from genetics, biology, psychology, finance, medical schools (analyzing fmri imaging data etc.), etc.
I know this is anecdotal obviously but the statisticians were generally happier people too - the economists there was this dark undercurrent in the department of political power battles, inferiority complexes, etc. |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:24 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428263) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:25 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha nice. sounds abt right w/r/t the people in econ departments.
the theory/proof based nature is 100% dead on and ludicrous |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 7:53 PM Author: Hairless Vibrant Field Legend super math heavy econ phd is just an arms race of who can do the most sophisticated math while pretending to do economics?
would anything of value be lost if we burned down every single economics department in the world? |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 7:56 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha basically.
burning down libraries is generally unchill. additionally, some microeconomic theory (utility maximization math, and some of game theory) has contributed a lot to A.I. . also there a few history oriented economists (barry eichengreen, christy and david romer) who do useful stuff. |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 8:04 PM Author: Hairless Vibrant Field Legend more like the linear programming and game theory math was borrowed to be used in economics. econ contributed nothing of itself to AI.
history economics gets zero respect in economics. |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 8:08 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha i disagree with your first assertion. the standard AI textbook has numerous bibliographical notes referencing economic articles on utility theory from the 30s and 40s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427628) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 8:09 PM Author: Hairless Vibrant Field Legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann was an economist? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427638) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 8:15 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha https://imgur.com/a/8vbp9R3 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427665) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 9:59 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha bored. axe me ?s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428117) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:00 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo What are your thoughts on coase theorem (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428122) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:04 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha mixed feelings. not a huge fan of stuff that evaluates things in terms of 'efficiency' and other nebulously defined costs and benefits, but i have a soft spot for the subfield of institutional economics and coase in particular (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428141) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:01 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo Is ur jerb econ related? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428128) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:04 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428142) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:07 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo Is it 180? How'd u cop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428155) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:10 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha i like it. demonstrated ability/knowledge to somebody. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428170) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo What industry? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428204) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:15 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha don't wanna divulge. srry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428209) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:21 PM Author: fantasy-prone ceo What's the day to day? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428242) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:06 PM Author: Aggressive supple headpube economists are 110% full of shit and it's a shit 'science'
source: econ major |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:07 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha agree it's not a science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428153) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:18 PM Author: lemon razzle private investor location It's also an incredibly broad field - moreso than almost any other departments in university than I can think of. You have people doing stuff from applied econometric methods which are useful to every academic field out there to people doing heavy econometric theory to industrial organization to game theory mathurbation to various macro fields to applied econ which could easily be split up depending on your specific interests you could be indistinguishable from an epidemiologist or applied health researcher etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428228) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:07 PM Author: Bespoke Pisswyrm Bawdyhouse RATE your ability to draw graphs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428156) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:10 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha hate looking at 'em, hate drawing 'em. don't know why econ pedagogy went down that route. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428166) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:12 PM Author: Bespoke Pisswyrm Bawdyhouse Simple question of supply and demand. *draws two curves* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428177) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:13 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha i love it even more when some moderately complicated question gets answered in the most obscure way possible: a crowded graph with a shitload of shaded boxes and tangent lines (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428195) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:09 PM Author: purple glittery address becky What do you think of this?
Can you think of any historical analogues? |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:12 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha immediately made me think of bernanke's idea of 'helicopter money'
conceptually akin to reserve creation through QE, but using different instruments and reaching different agents in the economy |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:13 PM Author: purple glittery address becky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428191) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:42 PM Author: purple glittery address becky thx baby (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428339) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:16 PM Author: Umber factory reset button new version what motivates people into pursuing a degree in this farcical pseudo-rigorous field (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428217) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:19 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha i like to call them 'prestige arbitrageurs' -- people who were good enough at math etc to do physics and pure math, but not good enough to be superstars in that field; so they went into econ to dazzle people with their ability to do calculus and get hailed as geniuses. this gig is kind of up now, and these people are running the same con game in other social 'sciences' (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428234) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:24 PM Author: Umber factory reset button new version lol, interesting. what about the undergrads and intellectual mediocrities in all but a handful of top grad programs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428257) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:27 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha i think undegrads do it b/c it makes them marginally more employable than doing a humanity or polisci, although nowhere near as employable as CS. as for lower ranked phd programs, idk. maybe theyre eyeing some chill govt/consulting jerb or are just delusional (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428273) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 4:43 PM Author: flirting legal warrant resort CR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36460807) |
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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:28 PM Author: lemon razzle private investor location 1) People who actually like their field of research 2) People who mistakenly equate economics with fianance / hedge funds / quant jobs and are in for a wake up call when they learn that unless you go to a top ~5-10 school, these jobs actually hire out of math / stats / physics / etc. rather than econ 3) people chasing prestige - keep in mind that Econ actually has one of the best academic job markets, both in demand and especially in $$, as rough as the academic market is |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 4:31 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36460724) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 4:33 PM Author: Big Spot Degenerate So economics is just autists coming up with theories about human beings and then rigging models to confirm those theories? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36460735) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 4:35 PM Author: elite boiling water parlor Pretty much. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36460743) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 4:47 PM Author: elite boiling water parlor Econ undergrad major here. I LOVED learning economics through graphs. They were the only way i could make sense of this pseudo science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36460830) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 5:16 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha interesting? even indifference curves and consumer surplus boxes? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36461040) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 5:20 PM Author: elite boiling water parlor Yep. I always liked graphs and shit so these made sense to me. I always tried to understand the graphs first before i read any text (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36461060) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 5:22 PM Author: Hairless Vibrant Field Legend ur a dumb faggot, then.
and moreover, i bet if you tried to understand economics at a graduate level your head would explode. |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 5:23 PM Author: elite boiling water parlor Maybe. But graduate level economics is flame anyway, so whos the faggot now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36461080) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 5:23 PM Author: Hairless Vibrant Field Legend you fell in love with trickle down flame. thats what im getting at, essentially. thats like falling in love with your prisoner. stockholm syndrome maybe. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36461085) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 5:25 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha if it worked for you, i'm glad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36461094) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 5:28 PM Author: elite boiling water parlor Mankiw had the best textbooks. Very clear, concise (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36461116) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 5:42 PM Author: Hot chartreuse alpha i have the orange edition of his macro book. it's p good for an undergrad textbook. imo this is the best one: http://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780199655793.html (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36461238) |