MetaFilter posts tagged with economists

You can divide my labour, anytime

Alex404 — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:57:24 -0800

Harvard Economists design a recruitment video. It is unintentionally funny. Students make it even funnier.

The 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics

daksya — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:53:18 -0800

The 2005 Nobel Prize for economics goes to Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling. Marginal Revolution has a wonderful set of posts that link to various related resources, like a summary of Aumann's work or Schelling's views on global warming.

Dismal Scientists @ Werk

BentPenguin — Fri, 23 May 2003 10:42:11 -0800

Economists is a little bit of socio-political commentary that doubles as Friday Flash. More likely to generate chuckles than comments...

Ty Webb — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 09:36:48 -0800

The New Gilded Age and its Discontents. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz began explaining why markets fail long before Enron and WorldCom rose, exploded and crashed. But not many people wanted to listen during the boom-boom '90s; Stiglitz was even fired from his position as chief economist at the World Bank after he repeatedly criticized the organization's free-market obsessions.

iceberg273 — Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:19:26 -0800

When academics rebel. A group of economists is attempting to redraw the landscape of academic research publication by injecting new electronic peer reviewed journals into the marketplace. Electronic publication of research certainly has its merits at times. Case in point: Because of the pressing medical importance of analyses of the recent anthrax cases, JAMA has published the results of two studies (one of patients who survived and one of those who did not) online in advance of the print publication in order to inform health care professionals as soon as possible. Do situations like this argue in favor of a change in the way that research is conducted and/or reported?