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Akhil Vohra

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2 years

I regret to inform you that these people are at it again

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Flight attendant: “You’re yelling” Passenger: “So is the baby!” Flight attendant: “Well you’re a man” Passenger: “Did that mf pay extra to yell?” Lmfaooooo

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Indian parents for sure weeping seeing their kid do this type of math

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Dear Mayor, Keep the poors out. Sincerely, Laura Arrillaga, lecturer of Philanthropy and Inclusivity at Stanford GSB

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There’s no chance this is true. None.

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Americans read an average of 12.6 books in 2021

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"Wow, you solved the Riemann hypothesis, here's your prize of undergrad admission to MIT". Wtf 😂😂😂

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Economists when they relabeled linear algebra as econometrics

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@imbernomics I felt so bad for her while watching this. She looked miserable.

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A fifth of the graduating class is 3 people

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Amazon now has some 400 full-time economists on staff, several times as many as a typical research university. Meanwhile, last year Uber hired a fifth of Harvard University’s graduating PhD class

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Theorists when asked to weigh in on the empirical job talks

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Now this is a great dunk

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The Econ advisor-advisee relationship:

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Aspire to this level of hating by the guardian lmao: #1 quote: "Sunak cited one of his inspiring Stanford professors, Paul Romer, and described the impact of Romer’s lecture on innovation. “I have no recollection of ever interacting with him,” Romer said.

Rishi who? Sunak says Stanford business school changed his life, but few remember him

Teachers at Tory leadership contender’s alma mater say they have no recollection of the man who would be prime minister

www.theguardian.com

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Just some great JP content I thought I’d share on the timeline

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Maybe economists should spend time studying market failures!

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"They wont arrest SBF" *SBF gets arrested* "Of course, it was the memes that I and other larping dumb asses created that drove this arrest to happen"

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Econ profs when they see a junior speaker try to get past the introductory slide

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Terence Tao is awesome

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Not just academics. Everyone. A 17 year old announces they are thrilled to be the first in their family to go to college “So… you’re saying you have a family? Did you also grow up in a two-parent household? Did you!?”

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All I’m going to say is that I’ve never seen a theory paper fake their data

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“It’s called upper hemicontinuity. It’s an analog of continuity for correspondences and we use it in the proof of existence of Nash equilibria. Want to hear about the envelope theorem?”

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Macro fans on the timeline today

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@KingJosiah54 Cam Newton to the front office:

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George Santos chief advisor @nominalthoughts

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My niece had the same statistics as 30,000 people who applied to Harvard and wasn't one of the 1500 selected. What is going on in Cambridge?

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A lot of you are thinking “wow, I’m going to buy it now”. But you better make sure all your tweets are under 280 characters because if not, I’m hitting you with this

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Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to hide their blue checkmarks to avoid the shame

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There should a show where academics talk about papers like this

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As a PhD student, I requested I get no stipend or tuition funding. I told them that academia was a calling and the opportunity to run regressions on multiple data sets was more than enough compensation.

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Graduate students are primarily students and trainees, not ordinary workers. Academia is a calling. I suspect unionization will tip the balance so faculty prefer, at the margin, to hire post-docs to do research in their labs rather than students.

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@BleacherReport “I’m sorry I chose the words “elite white people”? Well what words did you mean to use 🤔

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Acemoglu: “At a top 5”

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#Econtwitter where do you post working papers?

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Dudes who don’t know how to open a terminal be like “I need to see the twitter algorithm”

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Per @ben_golub ’s request.

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How in gods name did I miss this lmaooo

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When you reference an Econ paper in a discussion on here

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Advisor: “How’s your research going?” Grad student:

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@litcapital Same energy:

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One of the best scenes in tv history 😂

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I wasn’t on Twitter in 2019 but did @ben_golub and @economeager collapse when they saw this?

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Saw a predoc position requiring previous econ research experience as a qualification lmfao

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Econ seminar invites be like:

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Wtf is a “real stat”?

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@imbernomics I wonder if there’s a gofundme for her divorce and an all expenses paid vacation

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Senior economists after offering comments during seminars

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Life comes at you fast 😂

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Nothing more hilarious than silicon valley guys claiming the existence of phenomenon based on no data and anecdotal evidence from a conversation at a coffee shop

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How did I never know about this Ariely paper?

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@brgridiron @BleacherReport You had to be there

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“Why are players in soccer paid so much? When you look at their stats, their salary per goal ratio is really jaw dropping.”

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Lots of academics on here really over-estimating their outside options

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This piece is entitled “The Grad School Effect”

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Guys, it’s simple US: ac, bigger beds, washer/drier, better cust service, free water, more 24hr stuff, bigger cafe tables Europe: cheaper, better groceries, no slow drivers, tot price shown, better bread, walkable, clean cities that don’t smell, paying isn’t a 3-part endeavour

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Professor giving all the seminars on the results versus their RA cleaning the data and coding

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This is why linear algebra needs to be required

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Theorists at a seminar when asked about applications of their model

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@KingJosiah54 Kyrie asking Aaron Rodgers how he pulled it off

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For the love of fucking god. A professor of practice at MIT Sloan does not report to any member of the economics department, which is in the school of arts and sciences.

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This is egregious and quite frankly disrespectful

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MIT continuing to send us its best people @economeager

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Imagine being a non economist just wanting a peaceful flight to New Orleans and being surrounded by people talking about minimum wage and econometrics

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There is no bottom at Fox News

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Theorist when asked about model applications during a seminar

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A Nigerian official fake fainted after he was grilled about missing funds.

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A large portion of the anti-affirmative action crowd very silent on this one lol

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In a new paper, @joshdgrossman , @soy_beana , @linzcpage and I show that Asian American applicants to selective colleges were less likely to be admitted than similarly qualified white students — in large part due to legacy preferences and geography. 🧵

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Rachel @economeager Olivier Blanchard 🤝

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Advisors when their student is on the market 😂

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Ah I see that lots of the "STEM majors dont need to take history courses, they were useless" folks are proposing solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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@wwwojtekk More importantly, we are see dynamic price adjustment 😅

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Speaking of cover letters. The undergraduate admission questions like “why Stanford?” Or “why Harvard?” are the single dumbest questions asked in the entire process.

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UChicago profs when you write harmless jokes about the views of economists who died over a decade ago

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Unreal that this man was invited to give a talk at Chicago

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Econ Paper + Online Appendix

THE TAO OF NOW

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NAME THIS BURGER CONTEST

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LinkedIn is wild. Also, She’s going monetize this thing regardless of outcome and that is true grifting 👏🏽

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@bengrossbg @crembrulemily Grad students when asked about what grad school is like:

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Take that @instrumenthull

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Kat Abu

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here's the template. i want to see some works of art.

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My advice for people entering PhD programs. Don’t learn Spanish from the Chileans. @seb_otero @NanoBarahona

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This is every econ grad student in front of a computer screen

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Marketing tweet to grad students: Become a theorist. Notice that they are happy, having fun, and no one is mad at them on twitter.

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Don’t announce much but won a teaching excellence award in my 1st yr for my competitive strategy class (voted by the students). Created it from scratch & made them do lots of math 😅 Special thanks to @florianederer who kindly shared his tips on leading cases & topics to cover!

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@chrissyteigen Evergreen:

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Is MMT a type of party drug?

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Genius. Why didn’t Lehman brothers just sell equity after their firm collapsed and went bankrupt

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It's kind of crazy that some US institutions define first-generation college student as someone whose parents didn't get a bachelors in the US

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This being read out loud in court will be incredible

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@JDVance1 Same guy that once wrote this. Just a joke @nedster26

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@KingJosiah54 “I thought you said we were a team and you believed in my potential”

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“We are conducting an any field search”

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Guys, the bank run model counts as micro theory.

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Need Christopher Nolan to make a Bayes Rule movie so most of the population will finally learn it

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Alright, I’ll bite. What’s NBER?

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1) calculus should not be replaced by statistics in HS 2) linear algebra/a proof based math course should be required at university, much like some other humanities courses