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Professor Rating: Is It Students' Business?
In recent months the INOMICS blog has featured a series of posts about rankings of departments and universities. Traditionally, ranking has practically been an academic discipline in itself, with big names like QS, the Times Newspaper and in Economics the citation listings compiled by REPEC, dominating the field. However a trend towards a kind of âcrowd-sourcingâ of ranking has started to appear. The Shanghai ARWU was one of the earliest major ranking bodies to introduce this, but others are following.
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In Memory of Robert Fogel
We are sad to share the loss of a great economist yesterday. Robert Fogel, Nobel Laureate (1993, with Douglass North) passed away yesterday at the age of 86. He was a Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Founding Director of the Center for Population Economics.
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What is Inequality? Links and Resources
There exist two sides to every argument; in this one we have on one side a utopian world where everyone is equal and on the other a world where inhabitants donât want to share what theyâve earned (presumably) by persistence and hard work with others and keep it for themselves. Herein lie the issues of inequality and the question of welfare and income redistribution. There are debates at every level of society, government and especially amongst economists as to where this problem comes from and how to tackle it.
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- Posted 11 years ago
INOMICS Officially Supports CitEc: Citations in Economics
At INOMICS we strive to offer the best resources for economists to support them in their careers. Besides providing information on jobs, courses and conferences in the economics field, in partnership with RePEc weâve been working on making economics research more accessible to our users. As a means of support in promoting economics research, in April 2013
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The Current Crisis And Recovery: Conferences And Blogs
For the last couple of years we have been hearing repeated, if sporadic ârumoursâ about the soon-to-be recovery. Different economists have different views on this, and below you can find a list of up-to-date comments about the prospects for the near future, and conferences which are open for registration if you have ideas on this topic to tell the world about.
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Economists and Social Media
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- Posted 11 years ago
MOOCs and Economics Education
Last year I wrote a post on whether free education would replace the skyrocketing tuition fees being faced around the world. A year later and this topic has expanded so much that it has a name: MOOCs â Massive Open Online Courses â and there are, literally, millions of them and the trend is growing fast, as illustrated by this âMOOC Timelineâ.
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Armen Alchian: A Great Loss to the Economics Community
Yesterday, the 19th of Feb, the economics community lost another famed scholar â Armen Alchian, 98, professor emeritus at the University of California Los Angeles.
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Would You Date an Economist?
Image Credit: Liz Fosslien Have you ever considered dating an economist, and if yes, what did you decide? If you are puzzled by this question, there are plenty of resources, which can help you to find an answer. The amount of material on this topic found by searching Google and the number of jokes made clearly indicate that it is indeed a hot topic, even more so on a Valentineâs Day.
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- Posted 11 years ago
Economics Apps for iPhone and iPad
Last year we published a list of âThe Best Economics Android Appsâ, with the intention to follow it up with a post about economics apps for iOS devices later. As promised, here is the list of the apps for economists, who prefer to use Apple products, and which could be useful for both students and professionals in economics.
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INOMICS Partners with IAEE
The US-based International Association for Energy Economics is the worldâs largest organization of Energy Economists with members from over 100 countries. Part of their mandate includes facilitating the mutual association of people interested in energy economics, in order to create a forum for professional discussion and to provide a means of international communication and exchange. Collaboration between INOMICS and IAEE has already benefitted both organizations in terms of consolidating global reach and sharing resources.
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AEA 2013 Annual Meeting: Links and Resources
Two weeks having passed since ASSA 2013 we have put together a list of links from economics blogs, which highlight some of the sessions, papers and thoughts triggered by the discussions. If you have found more interesting resources share them with us in the comments!
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Demand for Econ PhDs, the Nobel Prize, Rankings, Economics Apps, Salaries and Other Top Blog Posts 2012
As we reached the end of the year 2012, we decided to compile a list of the top INOMICS blog posts, those that received a record number of visitors throughout the year. Enjoy your reading and Happy New Year to everyone!
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Christmas Economics: Which Countries Spend the Most and on What?
Sources: Christmas Spending Survey 2012, Deloitte; NRFâs Holiday Survival Kit (US only); HSBC Christmas Spending Survey 2012 (UK only) The Christmas Season is probably the heaviest burden for family budgets among all the annual holidays, and the best business opportunity for retailers. In the US alone estimations of spending on Christmas-related items hit $586.1 billion in 2012.
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INOMICS and ERSA Announce Partnership
INOMICS continues and expands its working partnership with the European Regional Scienc Association (ERSA) into 2013.
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Top Apps for Economists
Apps (already âWord of the Yearâ in 2010), have become an integral part of our everyday lives, bringing to our phones not only entertainment, but also helpful tools to be used for educational and professional purposes. Downloadable for free or for a price, there are a number of handy apps created especially for economists, which come in the form of data sets, quizzes, educational videos, podcasts or simply mobile versions of media.
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Economics Job Market: ASSA Meeting 2013
It is that time of year again!
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Halloween Economics: Who Spends Money on What?
Halloween is a highly commercialized holiday in the US, with people of all ages celebrating and spending. Expected Halloween spending of US consumers in 2012 almost equals government expenditures of Kenya. According to surveys conducted annually by the National Retail Federation, in last five years total spending on Halloween in the US grew from $4.96 billion in 2006 to an expected $8 billion in 2012. After a significant drop in spending in 2009, consumers managed to bring it back up to the level of a previous year in 2010.
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Google Economics
Googleâs California headquarters is one of the more unusual places where you might find economists hard at work. While economists did not have a place at Google when it launched in 1998, by 2002 Google had begun to hire economists in advisory roles as the demand for Googleâs ad space grew in size and complexity.
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Nobel Prize in Economics 2012: Winners Announced
âYou canât be an economist without noticing all the interesting things about how the economy works, it is natural to be interested in it and I have had the privilege to be able to study itâ said Alvin A. Roth answering questions during the unexpected 4am call from Sweden. Together with Lloyd S. Shapley, Roth was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel â more commonly known as the Nobel Prize in Economics â âfor the theory of stable allocations and practice of market designâ. During the award speech the field was described as being ââŠabout economic engineering, [and] how to design certain markets where the traditional market mechanism is expected to not work well.â
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Where Are The Economists Coming From?
Data published on OECD.Stats Extracts gives an overview of the absolute numbers of graduates from tertiary type-A and advanced research programs for all standard fields of education. According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), economics and economic history fall under the category of Social and Behavioral Science (business and related disciplines are not included). The graph presented above includes aggregated data for countries with the largest number of graduates in social and behavioral science* for the year 2010. The number of graduates from the US significantly out numbers graduates from other OECD countries, leading in every other discipline as well. Unfortunately, there is no information available on the exact percentage of economists among the graduates.
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How Economics Is Embracing Its Young
After our tour of economics conferences this summer, the INOMICS team was impressed by the number of young economists at these events. Anecdotally, many delegates have the impression that there is a trend towards younger academics at even long-established, annual events, as well as more female delegates than were present in the past. Perhaps the time of economics conferences as the preserve of distinguished, yet silver-haired, bearded men is coming to a close.
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The 100th Anniversary of the Birthday of Milton Friedman
On November 16, 2006 the world lost one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. Today, July 31, 2012, Milton Friedman would have celebrated his 100th birthday, which makes it perhaps a fitting time to stop for a moment and recall some of his contributions to the field.
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Three Economists Go Hunting
Three Economists go out hunting
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Growth of Econ Research in China
The Tilburg University Economics Ranking Sandbox For anyone that doesnât know it, the Tilburg University Economics Ranking, which ranks economics departments based on contributions to articles published in any one of 62 (mostly English-language) economics-related journals, is well worth a look.
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