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Tales From The Road, Chicago Edition…

January 18th, 2012 · 1 Comment
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Dear EconoDiary,

Sorry I haven’t written recently- it’s hard starting spring semester teaching the day after an 18-hour drive back from Chicago! (In related news, teaching graduate macro is an interesting challenge, to say the least.) Anyway, the conference went quite well, and Jarret and I even managed to put together a somewhat legit [...]

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Two Days Until Economic-Con 2012…

January 4th, 2012 · 8 Comments
Administrative

Guess where the annual meeting of the American Economic Association is being held this year:

(I may or may not have stock photos like this for various cities throughout the world.) The AEA annual meeting is being held January 6-8 (Friday-Sunday) in Chicago, IL. If you are attending, you should stop by and say [...]

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When Economics Teaching And Bourbon Street Collide…

October 9th, 2011 · 6 Comments
Administrative

I have a sneaking suspicion that some people go to conferences for the presentations almost as much as they read Playboy for the articles, and a lot of conference organizers seem to have figured this out. In unrelated news, the 7th Annual Economics Teaching Conference, hosted by the Gulf Coast Economics Association and Cengage [...]

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Adventures In Crowdsourcing, Economic Life Lessons Edition…

September 16th, 2011 · 9 Comments
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The good news: I’ve been approached by a publisher about a book.

More good news: The publisher wants the book to be a series of short economic principles worth knowing in order to not suck at life. Okay, those were my words, not theirs. Their words were something more along the lines [...]

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Attention Boston: Your Nerd Humor Fix For The Week Is Here…

April 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment
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Posting will be slow this week since I’m a tad, um, preoccupied with my ongoing commitment to furthering the cause of nerd humor in the Greater Boston area. (Translation: I procrastinated and am now scrambling to put stuff together.) If you are in Boston and like nerdy/funny things, there are a few items [...]

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