Econ should be as inclusive as possible. Any student should be comfortable talking to any person with any power, and any student should feel like they would be welcome and appreciated in the community of economists. To me, this is the litmus test.
Jonathan Libgober (same handle on other places)
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Jonathan Libgober (same handle on other places)
@JlibDoesEcon
AP in Econ at @USCDornsife. I do Information Economics & more. Best friend of Spinoza (Nosik) Petrov-Libgober.
- Apparently Harvard Econ doesn't give out real PhDs because they never ONCE tried to teach us Latin OR Greek and we generally called advisors by their first names. What a scam.
- Once as a grad student, I had a Littauer basement conversation with a friend about whether it would be interesting to think about dynamic pricing with buyer learning, using a robust/maxmin approach. This morning, a bit under 4 years later, the result was accepted at Restud.
- NEW WORKING PAPER! Learning versus Unlearning: an Experiment on Retractions with Duarte Goncalves @DGoncalvesDS and Jack Willis @Jack_J_Willis Summary below! (1/8)
- First publication officially on the books. Was going to do another thread summarizing it, but tbh I think our abstract is beautiful so I'll just leave it at that :p It was quite a journey, but I'll just say: thanks to all of you who helped us get here.
- Is this really an important phrase to know in Russian?
- Academia is a place where you are free to surround yourself with your passion, assuming your passion is anonymously hearing the past few years of your life was spent on a topic that is not sufficiently general interest to warrant publication.
- February, 2020: 0 accepted papers March, 2020: 0 accepted papers April, 2020: 1 accepted paper By December, my model predicts I will have 405 accepted papers. Don't know why people are hating on cubic fits so much.
- Replying to @PFTompkinsBut if Biden had dropped out, and so had all the other candidates, then Bernie would have gotten ONE HUNDRED percent of the vote.
- On the issue that Lisa Cook would be too political of a choice for the fed.... I think that economics (or at least, large swaths of it) made a mistake of not taking inequality seriously as a variable for a long time because "we're just comparing points on the Pareto frontier."
- Hope this was worth your fucking corporate tax cut
- Being a junior academic is all about walking the tightrope between “you work on too many things” and “that paper you poured your soul into is not publishable”
- ~<6 years ago, I showed my advisor some barely intelligible notes about yelp reviews I had written for my market design term paper. He told me it seemed more like a model of research. This morning, many iterations later, it was accepted by AEJ: Micro. uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/346e2271…
- To me, economics is whatever gets my referees off my back… and the part of economic thought I care about is the part that gets my referees off my back…
