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i can answer ?s abt the field of economics, if you'd like

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disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
ECK or EEK?
clear corner toilet seat
  07/14/18
eek, but im prole
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
What's the next behavioral economics?
Irradiated glassy clown preventive strike
  07/14/18
machine learned behavior. which is to say, just more bull sh...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
What is this machine learned behavior?
Irradiated glassy clown preventive strike
  07/14/18
using 'big data' to pin down functions (not necessarily line...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
Boring! That's what everything is these days.
Irradiated glassy clown preventive strike
  07/14/18
agreed
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
I feel like machine learning with non real time data is bs. ...
rough-skinned boltzmann
  07/14/18
predictions for ETH?
Rose low-t lodge
  07/14/18
strong support at 0
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
...
confused property scourge upon the earth
  07/14/18
nice fud
Rose low-t lodge
  07/14/18
Should I do LRM phd?
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
no
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
:(
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
or yes, it doesnt matter
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
Nah
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
still gets you into econ consulting if you want to do that
confused property scourge upon the earth
  07/14/18
Are you serious what should I do dissertation on damage awar...
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
game theory of soccer shoot outs
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
...
confused property scourge upon the earth
  07/14/18
anything applied micro with at least some applied metrics
confused property scourge upon the earth
  07/14/18
I set the curve in my law and econ class in undergrad. Then ...
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
what was that class abt? shit like 'moral hazard' and 'asymm...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
Cooter textbook
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
not as bad as i was expecting
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
Damn you must be so smart dude woah
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
didnt mean to be snarky. i just looked at the table of conte...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
the most insightful economics paper in the last 50 years was...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
Macroeconomics - total flame?
Bat-shit-crazy razzmatazz hunting ground yarmulke
  07/14/18
basic conceptual macro is useful, but there havent really be...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
Thoughts on prsaxeology?
floppy idiot casino
  07/14/18
interesting. havent heard of this before
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
Is economics flame?
Aromatic twinkling uncleanness range
  07/14/18
as an ahistorical study of how agents allocate resources and...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
Do you have an Econ PhD or masters?
Bat-shit-crazy razzmatazz hunting ground yarmulke
  07/14/18
no, although i did all the course work that a typical 1st ye...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
You took advanced micro and macro ?
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
yeah plus time series, int'l macro, IO, and some other r...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
Was it 180?
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
reading some of the old macro articles from the 30s-70s was ...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
Ooof
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
Same - I started in Econ phd and took first 1.5 years then s...
Beady-eyed bisexual stead people who are hurt
  07/14/18
180
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
nice. sounds abt right w/r/t the people in econ departments....
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
super math heavy econ phd is just an arms race of who can do...
Bistre toaster
  07/14/18
basically. burning down libraries is generally unchill. ...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
more like the linear programming and game theory math was bo...
Bistre toaster
  07/14/18
i disagree with your first assertion. the standard AI textbo...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann was an econom...
Bistre toaster
  07/14/18
https://imgur.com/a/8vbp9R3
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
bored. axe me ?s
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
What are your thoughts on coase theorem
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
mixed feelings. not a huge fan of stuff that evaluates thing...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
Is ur jerb econ related?
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
yes
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
Is it 180? How'd u cop
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
i like it. demonstrated ability/knowledge to somebody.
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
What industry?
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
don't wanna divulge. srry
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
What's the day to day?
adventurous pontificating senate half-breed
  07/14/18
economists are 110% full of shit and it's a shit 'science' ...
trip greedy chad
  07/14/18
agree it's not a science
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
It's also an incredibly broad field - moreso than almost any...
Beady-eyed bisexual stead people who are hurt
  07/14/18
RATE your ability to draw graphs.
Pale bearded base police squad
  07/14/18
hate looking at 'em, hate drawing 'em. don't know why econ p...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
Simple question of supply and demand. *draws two curves*
Pale bearded base police squad
  07/14/18
i love it even more when some moderately complicated questio...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
What do you think of this? https://www.zerohedge.com/news...
Burgundy laughsome spot cuck
  07/14/18
immediately made me think of bernanke's idea of 'helicopter ...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
...
Burgundy laughsome spot cuck
  07/14/18
thx baby
Burgundy laughsome spot cuck
  07/14/18
what motivates people into pursuing a degree in this farcica...
Yapping Pit
  07/14/18
i like to call them 'prestige arbitrageurs' -- people who we...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
lol, interesting. what about the undergrads and intellectual...
Yapping Pit
  07/14/18
i think undegrads do it b/c it makes them marginally more em...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/14/18
CR
Bat-shit-crazy razzmatazz hunting ground yarmulke
  07/19/18
1) People who actually like their field of research 2) Peop...
Beady-eyed bisexual stead people who are hurt
  07/14/18
...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/19/18
So economics is just autists coming up with theories about h...
poppy curious whorehouse
  07/19/18
Pretty much.
overrated plaza
  07/19/18
Econ undergrad major here. I LOVED learning economics throug...
overrated plaza
  07/19/18
interesting? even indifference curves and consumer surplus b...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/19/18
Yep. I always liked graphs and shit so these made sense to m...
overrated plaza
  07/19/18
ur a dumb faggot, then. and moreover, i bet if you tried...
Bistre toaster
  07/19/18
Maybe. But graduate level economics is flame anyway, so whos...
overrated plaza
  07/19/18
you fell in love with trickle down flame. thats what im gett...
Bistre toaster
  07/19/18
if it worked for you, i'm glad.
disgusting stage codepig
  07/19/18
Mankiw had the best textbooks. Very clear, concise
overrated plaza
  07/19/18
i have the orange edition of his macro book. it's p good for...
disgusting stage codepig
  07/19/18


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Date: July 14th, 2018 4:58 PM
Author: disgusting stage codepig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36426751)



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Date: July 14th, 2018 4:58 PM
Author: clear corner toilet seat

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: Irradiated glassy clown preventive strike

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: Irradiated glassy clown preventive strike

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: Irradiated glassy clown preventive strike

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: rough-skinned boltzmann

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: Rose low-t lodge

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: confused property scourge upon the earth



(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: Rose low-t lodge

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

:(

(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: disgusting stage codepig

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: confused property scourge upon the earth

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: confused property scourge upon the earth



(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: confused property scourge upon the earth

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: Bat-shit-crazy razzmatazz hunting ground yarmulke

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: floppy idiot casino

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: Aromatic twinkling uncleanness range

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: Bat-shit-crazy razzmatazz hunting ground yarmulke

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: disgusting stage codepig

yeah

plus time series, int'l macro, IO, and some other random stuff

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427788)



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Date: July 14th, 2018 8:47 PM
Author: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: Beady-eyed bisexual stead people who are hurt

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428253)



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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:24 PM
Author: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: disgusting stage codepig

nice. sounds abt right w/r/t the people in econ departments.

the theory/proof based nature is 100% dead on and ludicrous

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428265)



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Date: July 14th, 2018 7:53 PM
Author: Bistre toaster

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?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427558)



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Date: July 14th, 2018 7:56 PM
Author: disgusting stage codepig

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427573)



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Date: July 14th, 2018 8:04 PM
Author: Bistre toaster

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36427610)



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Date: July 14th, 2018 8:08 PM
Author: disgusting stage codepig

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: Bistre toaster

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: adventurous pontificating senate half-breed

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: trip greedy chad

economists are 110% full of shit and it's a shit 'science'

source: econ major

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428146)



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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:07 PM
Author: disgusting stage codepig

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: Beady-eyed bisexual stead people who are hurt

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: Pale bearded base police squad

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: Pale bearded base police squad

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: Burgundy laughsome spot cuck

What do you think of this?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-28/former-goldman-engineer-wants-airdrop-300m-venezuela-bitcoin

Can you think of any historical analogues?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428160)



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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:12 PM
Author: disgusting stage codepig

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428184)



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Date: July 14th, 2018 10:13 PM
Author: Burgundy laughsome spot cuck



(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: Burgundy laughsome spot cuck

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: Yapping Pit

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: Yapping Pit

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: Bat-shit-crazy razzmatazz hunting ground yarmulke

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: Beady-eyed bisexual stead people who are hurt

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36428278)



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Date: July 19th, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: disgusting stage codepig



(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: poppy curious whorehouse

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: overrated plaza

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: overrated plaza

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: overrated plaza

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: Bistre toaster

ur a dumb faggot, then.

and moreover, i bet if you tried to understand economics at a graduate level your head would explode.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4025970&forum_id=2#36461074)



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Date: July 19th, 2018 5:23 PM
Author: overrated plaza

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: Bistre toaster

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: disgusting stage codepig

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: overrated plaza

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: disgusting stage codepig

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)