Category: academia
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On prestige of universities vs. graduate programs
I wanted to clarify something based on a comment by a supporter on the discrimination post. I think this clarification is useful because from my own experience, the general public doesn’t know that the prestige of a university has virtually nothing to do with the prestige of any given graduate program at that university. The…
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What’s going on with Paul Krugman?
Paul’s a good economist, especially in his textbook. His New Trade Theory was solid work, and he’s extremely smart, but I’m stumped by this. Krugman criticizes Roger Pielke, Jr. in this post. He attributes an argument to Pielke that Pielke never made, and never came close to making. He says that Pielke argues that a…