Kind of hard to believe, Mercatus will pay you $20k/year to get an MA in Economics. Plus you might “get” to be my RA.
Kind of hard to believe, Mercatus will pay you $20k/year to get an MA in Economics. Plus you might “get” to be my RA.
Jan 21 2013
Suppose you suddenly discover a far better way of doing X. Your discovery uses fewer resources, yields higher quality, and even has more positive externalities than Ye Olde Standby. There's just one catch: your discovery is a discovery. By definition, no one currently does X your way.In many cases, yo...
Jan 20 2013
And, moreover, uses some of Milton Friedman's best work to do so. First, Joe [Stiglitz] offers a version of the "underconsumption" hypothesis, basically that the rich spend too little of their income. This hypothesis has a long history -- but it also has well-known theoretical and empirical problems. It's true that a...
Jan 20 2013
@EliDourado tweets:Kind of hard to believe, Mercatus will pay you $20k/year to get an MA in Economics. Plus you might "get" to be my RA. He's right. You might also "get" to take master's level macroeconomics with me: I'm teaching it this semester, as I have for five of the past six years. Overall stude...
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Peter Twieg
Jan 20 2013 at 11:47am
The NYFamousKabob cart is closer than El Pollo Rico, and even better!
Adam G
Jan 20 2013 at 11:49am
He’s right. The M.A. fellowship is worth it, if just for EPR’s D.C. famous yucca fries.
cassander
Jan 21 2013 at 2:31am
If I offer to do the program for 10k a year, will that put me in front of all the other applicants?
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