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Category: Public Humiliation
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John kindly pointed out that the scumbags (technical term) at this high quality (sarcasm) 'news' aggregation site stole my post from last week with no attribution. Funnily enough when I just went to the site to find the url, the lead story is John's post from three hours ago! AND…if you go to their News…
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Really, could you have made this up? Hat Tip: Paul Jakus
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Hello, John Whitehead is happy to report that he is no longer a part-time academic administrator (i.e., Economics Department Chair). If your email is regarding department business, please redirect it to our new chair Todd Cherry at cherrytl at appstate.edu. John Whitehead is also happy to report that he is on Off-Campus Scholarly Assignment (i.e.,…
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1/ Looooong tweetstorm on use of contingent valuation method in Exxon Valdez case & what it says on how economics science & expertise work pic.twitter.com/SohMYTwnh7 — Beatrice Cherrier (@Undercoverhist) June 25, 2017 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js These 48 tweets cover the article that Tim posted earlier and also this one by Spencer Banzhaf (who alerted us to the…
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More cuts er…non-renewals for the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt continues to clean house at a key advisory committee, signaling plans to drop several dozen current members of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), according to an email yesterday from a senior agency official. All board members…
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Jonathan Rees: Earlier this year, word broke that the University of California system secretly established a way by which it could monitor and read faculty emails. It defies belief that the UC system is the only one to do so. As is the case with any employer these days, your college or university can read…
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I figure since John put it on Facebook, I can put it here…
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And, as always, Matt Kahn makes a timely suggestion: In the past, I've done some writing on social capital and civic engagement. I just put the theory to the test by volunteering to serve on USC Econ's PHD Admissions Committee. USC Economics is world renown for its excellence in econometrics. With Antonio Bento,…
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Rather than read before I go to bed, I have taken to watching Netflix documentaries on the iPad. I thought this would lead to me falling asleep easier from the boredom of watching documentaries, but instead I find myself actually enjoying them leading to less sleep…and more questions. Last night I watched Inequality for All,…
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John managed earlier today to post an 842 word rant (don't make John angry, you wouldn't like him when he's angry) over the ridiculousness and arbitrariness of seemingly intelligent researchers choosing choice experiments over contingent valuation based on…well…the ridulous and arbitrary (and wrong) assumption that choice experiments somehow magically avoid the perceived woes of contingent…
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