Author Archives: Beatrice

Yesterday, I blogged about a question I have mulled over for years: what is the aggregate consequence of the thousands of hundreds of “I model the government’s objective function with well-behaved X social welfare-function because canonical paper Y does it” … Continue reading →

Edit: here’s a follow-up post in which I clarify my definition of ‘tractability’ and my priors on this topic Economists study cycles, but they also create some. Every other month, a British heterodox economist explains why economics is broken, and other … Continue reading →

Encountering Al Roth’s ideas has always been a “squaring the circle” experience to me. The man is the epitome of swag (as my students would say), his ideas the hype, and his past achievements ubiquitous in the media. He has … Continue reading →

A recent paper by Alice Wu, publicized by Justin Wolfers is creating a stir on the econ-twittosphere. The paper uses machine learning assisted text mining and topic modeling to document the astonishing sexism on the Economic Job Market Rumors US student … Continue reading →