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What’s the Best Major to Prepare for Law School? First, Pre-law literally has the word ‘law’ in the name and is marketed as preparation for law school. However, it is the undergraduate major associated with the lowest paid lawyers. For that matte…

@zacharybartsch.bsky.social wrote an article for econ profs: economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/09/19/w...

#Econsky check the Economics Department at the University of Arkansas is hiring two open-rank Economics professors, including an opening in public economics and public policy.

Public Economics/Public Policy:
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Macroeconomics:
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Teaching Business Statistics Graphs with Chart Crimes Many people take a basic statistics course in college. Those course usually include an overview of standard graphs and best practices for visualizing data. To keep that section from getting boring …

For friends who teach statistics economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/09/06/t...

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

This is why total productivity isn’t rising.

Top EWED Posts of 2025 These are notable posts from 2025, roughly presented in descending order, starting with the post that got the most views. Is there a competitive threat to the NBA?  Mike Makowsky wrote, “… le…

Top posts from our blog so far in 2025 @mikemakowsky.bsky.social economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/08/09/t...

Do you also fill out the forms for their summer camps?

"Analyses have also found that some 60% of Google searches are now 'zero-click,' ending without the user visiting a single link."

America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease

A few years ago, I went to Panama to see the "sterile fly barrier" that keeps a flesh-eating parasite out of the U.S.

It's one of the wildest things I've ever written about it...

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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

At the library in Telluride, Colorado

a substantial part of Middlemarch is about Dorothea's realization that the man she has married in the belief that he is a genius through his 'Key to All Mythologies' has wasted his life on a futile quest because he doesn't read German and is entirely unaware of modern scholarly work.

Thanks for being specific.

ICES Seminar in Experimental Economics and Game Theory Friday, May 2, 2025 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT

If you live near Arlington, VA, come out and hear about my new experiment on Friday May 2 ices.gmu.edu/events/16497

The April 2025 JEEA issue is very special: it contains the first papers that have gone through our Data Replication Policy. @jeeanews.bsky.social

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Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...

Do you rely more on hats or sunscreen for face?

Lot of alpha in staying under a roof between 10:30am and 3:30pm (not that we always do)

Amazing

Maybe that would have kept them from going bankrupt.

I've been posting about shutdowns and rippling "severe" supply chain effects theoretically -- here's a more practical view which is in line with that.

Today is evidence that the principles are simple and sound. It took me about a year of studying economics seriously to realize that we already know what makes countries rich. At first, I thought if I learned more math I could discover a secret.

People LOVED their factory jobs back in the 60s / 70s.

That's why there were so many songs about how they wanted to stay on the production line for all time and never, ever leave their hometown.

Citegeist: Automated Generation of Related Work Analysis on the arXiv Corpus Large Language Models provide significant new opportunities for the generation of high-quality written works. However, their employment in the research community is inhibited by their tendency to hall...

arxiv.org/abs/2503.23229 "Citegeist" is a great title.

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One way to think about the current moment is an ideological struggle over whether there are such things as public goods

Special Issue of JEBO in honor of Gary Charness. Deadline submission. April 1st. More Info: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Coming up with software that ensures students do their own work (at least within that computer) shouldn’t be impossible.

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