Tyler Cowen writes:
GMU isn’t hiring this year, but I still enjoy going through the job market candidates to see what is new in the profession. I’ll be blogging a few of the more interesting pieces I found, in the meantime here are some summary remarks from my investigations. Keep in mind these are highly subjective impressions for the most part:...
Job market papers seem to be getting longer. I was surprised how many 60-90 pp. papers I saw...
There are plenty of good but not interesting to me papers on economic development going around. The “dairy farmers in Kenya” sort of paper, fine work of high quality, but I look for something more general to read and report on...
There are hardly any theory papers coming out of the top schools...
The differences in student quality, within a department, seem to be narrowing.
How funny the work of the papers of the newly minted economists. We have come full circle. As Mises remarked about the content of his first published work while a graduate student, an empirical description of the evolution of the condition of Galician peasants from the fifteenth through the eighteenth century:
ReplyDelete"It was neither economic history nor administrative history. It was merely an extract from government documents, a description of policy as found in government reports. Any able government official could easily have written it.
It was Professor Grünberg’s ambition to found in Vienna a center for economic history like that created
by Knapp in Strasbourg. . . . As far as possible, I endeavored to free myself from too close an association
with Knapp’s system. But I succeeded only in part, which made my study, published in 1902, more
a history of government measures than economic history."