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The Google case is informative. Marissa Mayer has said Google considered a user subscription model in the early days but it turns out an ad-supported model generates 2.5–5x as much revenue as a subscription model given each party's willingness-to-pay. freakonomics.com/podcast/is-goo…

Peter Hull There is a set of things that all econ PhDs should know. Perhaps it doesn't need to take a year and it is not correctly implemented, but the right answer is not that there should be no core

😅 theonion.com/chatgpt-forced…

This is why you don't want to read books using the Kindle model. Ultimately a company controls what you read and can rewrite history in real time.

Twitter got out ahead of me on this one… Confirming that I have a book coming out this fall! The Two-Parent Privilege will be available on September 18. You can pre-order now from @uchicagopress: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book….

What the half-assed Oppenheimer takes are underscoring is how many people now see the role of the US historian as destroyer of idols, and anything that isn't overtly idol-destroying must necessarily be idolatry.

Excellent take on what the econ profession should do since #ejmrgate.

I had the pleasure of co-authoring a series with former ACLU President Nadine Strossen refuting some of the most pernicious anti-free speech myths. The 1st one focuses on the truly terrible idea that “free speech equals violence.” thefire.org/news/blogs/ete…

Fraud has so many victims, and we don’t see or hear from most of them. You can’t compete with fraud in a system that doesn’t stop it. And so we have to stop it.

Though it may be an unpopular view, I maintain that the bigger issue with Gino's research is that it's irrelevant and low quality, even if it were not fraudulent. Research that's relevant and has applications is more likely to be checked if replication packages are made

The thread by OP is an excellent on-the-ground example of the adage that academics are vicious and petty because the stakes are so low. Ashvin has the right take here.

After I got rejected from lots of econ grad schools in 2009 I cold-emailed a young econ prof asking how to improve my application. She replied in 7 minutes asking me to send her my statement of purpose and transcript, then read them and sent me personalized feedback. Guess who.

💯 💯 Totally what I’ve also been saying x.com/k__rajkumar/st…

I ❤️ this story! Both because academia is the better for having someone as strong and sharp as Allison, and also because mentors like Susan have actually cared to invest in all kinds of students to ensure brilliance everywhere is rewarded. My kinda happy ending 🥰

As a professor who favors free speech on campus, I can sympathize with the "nuanced" answers given by U. presidents yesterday, about whether calls to attack or wipe out Israel violate campus speech policies. What offends me is that since 2015, universities have been so quick to

Tonight, Penn President Liz Magill signaled that one of our nation's most prestigious institutions is willing to abandon its commitment to freedom of expression. “For decades, under multiple Penn presidents and consistent with most universities, Penn’s policies have been guided

Johnny 🍌Bananas🍌 The central point of statistics that has to be impressed upon ML engineers over and over again is just because you crunched some numbers doesn't mean you've uncovered what you care about. "just import sklearn" helps with executional speed but when your model fails