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Gen-Z’s Capitalist Whisperer By Shreeda Segan, Arena Magazine, December 5, 2024
Steven Levitt, podcast interview By Jon Hartley, New Books Network, May 13, 2024
Refresher Mathematics for Economics The University of Warwick
Top 50 economics articles in college syllabuses Open Syllabus
‘The Alternative’ is just the book economists should read — and won’t By Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post, February 15, 2024 [Review of The Alternative by Nick Romeo.]
The Quants in the Room By Jason Furman, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2022. [Review of Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
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People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, July 8, 2022
‘If Economists Are So Smart, Why Ain’t They Rich?’ By Peter Coy, The New York Times, May 9, 2022
Journals with short paper options where economists might publish Mentioned in Twitter thread https://twitter.com/DaveEvansPhD/status/1495044833211301891?s=20&t=OftPmk5K5OlLOhimInblFg
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The triumph of Thomas Sowell by John Steele Gordon, The New Criterion, June 2021 [Review of Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, by Jason L. Riley.]
If -- By Andrew Gelman, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (blog), December 17, 2020
Studying Economics Increases Wages a Lot By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), October 14, 2020

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Related: College Majors Matter By Catherine Rampell, Economix (blog), The New York Times, November 2, 2011

Goodbye, readers, and good luck — you’ll need it By Robert J. Samuelson, The Washington Post, September 13, 2020

Amazon gets an edge with its secret squad of PhD economists By Lydia DePillis, CNN Business, March 13, 2019

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