Caveat Archos

Ask a random economics Phd student what their fall semester course load is, and I can tell you with 95% confidence that they will say “Micro, Macro, and Metrics”. However, the program at the University of Massachusetts does not begin this way. Ask me what classes I’ll be taking in the fall. Go ahead, ask […]

So I am studying for my qualifying exams still at the moment and can tell you everything I need to about setting up a LaGrangian, taking partial derivatives, maximizing utility functions w.r.t. budget constraints, etc., but today I realize, my god!, I don’t really know why I am doing this.  I could not explain what […]

This should only require a single post-it note. How about all of my fellow economists in training keep a running tally of how much practical economics they are exposed to during their coursework in graduate school? I recall never hearing the names of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, etc. uttered yet once. […]