Many people probably don't realize how high the bar is to complete a PhD in economics. But let me explain for their benefits.
A proper PhD program makes you work about 50 to 60 hours every week for a year before your start focusing almost all your time on research. If you clear all your classes, you get to take qualifying exams: 4 hours long exams on micro theory and macro theory, each covering the entirety of 3 graduate level courses. If you fail those exams, you're out.
And the exams are extremely hard to pass. The problems are not broken down, so you do not have any hints along the way and a mistake can rapidly snowball into cost you 20%. And you basically do not have any time to hesitate. It's so demanding that smart people who prepare for it routinely fail.
Have you ever seen the face of students who failed those exams? Because I have. These people were smart. I was around them for a year. Some of them studied physics and mathematics before falling in love with economics. And they really wanted to do an economics PhD. They showed up every weekend to study. But it wasn't enough -- and that's not Chicago or Harvard where it would be even harder.
So, I am going to say something many people will dislike: most people would fail to complete a PhD in economics even if they gave it their best shot. It's just that hard.
Paul Krugman and Joe Stiglitz ran circles around people who did this for years... I know it's tempting to call them names if you dislike their politics, but there is no question these are unusually smart people.
@VincentGeloso@MakeUSAVAT I will add that he has skin in the game. He has been an enemy of Venezuelan sanctions for a decade, ever since they froze assets of bond holders and money launderers whom he was a cap assets manager for… he waves the most shaky unpublished econometrics to “prove” his point
@LaCamellaFeliz@FranNunesEcon 1) No viola la "Ley de la demanda", porque la "ley" no existe. Los bienes giffen son teoréticamente posible en una demanda marshaliana. Esa idea de "leyes" económicas es para enseñar.
2) Precesion perihelio de Mercurio. Por eso se abandonó la gravedad newtoniana.
@FranNunesEcon@dpolancon Hola Francisco. Polanco es agresivo pero la esencia es cierta: En 10yr te arrepentirás de mandar a leer +actitud si eres inteligente, o no si llegas a Ministro con ragebait. Personalmente estoy de acuerdo con muchos de tus puntos, pero el delivery daña el contenido
@JoJakubowicz En USA las carreras son distintas. Thiel hizo filosofía como mecanismo para estudiar Derecho. Es abogado, no filósofo. Y Daniela Amodei... bueno, ella esta pegada al hermano que hizo biofísica. En ambos casos, fueron a Stanford/Princeton/UCLA... No a una uni pública latina.
@OrlvndoA Bueno, no diría que Maher y Fetterman sean críticos de Trump. Dentro de los demócratas son los más centro derecha, al punto de ser halagados por Trump. Eso no hace sus argumentos menos válidos, pero Maher y Fetterman son todo menos los más críticos de la adm.
@ecequea@at_tvzla Te hace falta mundo, Elio. Un contrato de consultoria por 70k a una empresa privada son precios internacionales. No es evidencia de corrupcion.
@UlaVaz Te refieres a este borrador (no publicado) con n=50 hecho en unas semanas y sin evidencia de cambios estructurales (EEG!) de medio o largo plazo? Estas extrapolando sin información completa. El estudio no es sobre uso cotidiano, sino esfuerzo cognitivo https://t.co/cffASTc41m
@manuelnosoy Eso ha ocurrido con casi toda tecnología. Uber es famoso por haber subsidiado viajes y delivery; Amazon operaba con bajos márgenes en los 2000s usando precios agresivos; El sistema Bell de AT&T subsidiaba llamadas locales; el FCC USF subsidió la infraestructura para Internet...
@jose_molina73@Expresoec El problema es simple: la fuente de la matriculacion. Los docts no deberian tener matricula pagada por estudiantes, sino por los departamentos/grants competitivos y pagar salario a estudiantes. El estudiante no es la fuente de ingreso, sino el org que financia la investigacion
Fell in love with my new RA, Claude. It organized my folders, files, research, job market docs, created READ ME files, and even fixed code paths in files that are currently Schrodingering in-between folders. Can't stop thinking about The Measure of a Man.
@KhoaVuUmn Says Khoa Vu! one of the most productive early career econ researchers out of the top 10 under almost every metric. Plus he has a cute family, an industry job, and is well known as the top econmemester
@pmbruera porque el espíritu de la mamá esta ahí, y el campo AT reconstruye el mundo a su gusto (por eso lo aplauden y le dan la aceptación que buscaba). Evangelion 2.0 no es un remake, sino una continuación del mundo para Shinji.
@pmbruera Hay interpretaciones. NERV activa el Proyecto de Instrumentalización Humana que crea un campo AT que combina el espiritu de todas las personas en uno, destruyendo a la humanidad, pero Shinji tiene un link con el Eva 1 (usado para crear el campo)