"Is it true that the proofs in my papers are correct?" "In principle, yes, because no referee has ever ventured into the appendix."

Question at Radio Cambridgestan: “Is it true that my proof lacks elegance?” Answer: “In principle, yes, but only because the referee expected it to rhyme.”

“Reviewer: ‘The paper needs more clarity.’ Me: ‘What specifically?’ Reviewer: ‘Yes.’”

This is sooo true. I will put it in my email signature.

Brilliant idea, explained simply. Will definitely read the paper and think about how to use it in my work.

I am on the job market, which seems like a great opportunity for my first post on here! My job market paper is about failures of contingent thinking -- the act of reasoning about hypothetical events. 1/

Yes, please!

Today's edition of "📈📉 papers you should know" is Amanda Friedenberg's @econometric.bsky.social paper, "Bargaining Under Strategic Uncertainty: The Role of Second-Order Optimism". It's a wonderful example of a paper that delivers new insights from studying an old game.

I wrote an intro to the literature on simple mechanisms. Out now in the JEP. It’s a short (14-page) plain-language summary, designed to get students to the research frontier. 📈📉 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

found claude fun to chat with about this

Here's Bryan Caplan writing about math in economics. Seems very wrong to me. I wonder what the quickest refutation is that would make sense to most practicing economists. www.betonit.ai/p/economath_...

Paper worth reading: "The Optimality of Majority Rule" by Nina Bobkova. It offers a new perspective on why simple majority-rule may be best: it not only aggregates information but it also motivates voters to learn about what really matters. Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1pVVE... #polecon

Monday's great talk by Alexey Kushnir (Carnegie Mellon University), 'Undergraduate Course Allocation through Competitive Markets' with. Daniel Kornbluth is now available on our YouTube channel. ➡️ Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eoI... 📉📈

Did you know you can make BLOCKLISTs on bluesky?! Marciano even took the time to make one for QJE's use.

there's a view that this place is unbearably lefty and less valuable/less promising because of that. i don't think it's true but it WOULD be great for econsky to form a norm of not piling on when people say something against the prevailing orthodoxy