How do you inspect an option when you know they're informed and care about being ultimately selected?
A (short) thread about my 🚨 job market paper 🚨 in microeconomic theory and mechanism design.
#econjmp#econtwitter#theory 1/7
I just heard that 1st year PhD students in Econ at MIT no longer need to take a full year of macro. This should be a wakeup call for macro, lest this turn into a new trend. Some (perhaps controversial) thoughts. 1/
This will surprise you: sine and cosine are orthogonal to each other.
What does orthogonality even mean for functions? In this thread, we'll use the superpower of abstraction to go far beyond our intuition.
We'll also revolutionize science on the way.
I was remarking the other day how fantastic George Harrison was & the improbable fact that he was in a band with McCartney & Lennon and spouse rightly said "Yeah, it's really surprising that the best rock band of all time contained multiple world-class talents"
For the last month I've been reporting on a group of people who travel across America blocking wind and solar projects.
This group has passed clean energy opposition laws in states across the country.
Here's the story of one man who has been doing this for 10+ years.
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How do you inspect an option when you know they're informed and care about being ultimately selected?
A (short) thread about my 🚨 job market paper 🚨 in microeconomic theory and mechanism design.
#econjmp#econtwitter#theory 1/7
I really enjoyed discussing this with the non-technical folk who got in touch with me, so I've expanded it out a little to fill in some of the details. It's now on my website, feel free to "inspect". 👀
https://t.co/MQqmWPuHjU
A friend has just shown me this book "Calculus made easy", published in 1914, and I think it's got one of the best prologues I've ever seen. This is *exactly* what textbooks should be doing. And they should all be honest about how terrifying the topic names are too.