It is here, and I’ll cover the contents once I’ve had a chance to read them. Here is a symposium on why so few women in economics?
New issue of Econ Journal Watch
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women and economics-part self-
selection and part ability
differentials.
Is it normal for a journal to publish not one comment but two consecutive rounds of comments on the same original paper? Both the smoking comment and the casino/crime comment went through two rounds of commenting, and the casino/crime comment actually notes that Grinols and Mustard had been told the commenter would only have one chance to write one comment. Is Econ Journal Watch just desperate for submissions, or is this actually a debate, and less of a comment. I say because if you read both the articles written as responses, the authors seemed annoyed that they were having to respond a second time to the comments, and claim that their original comment had addressed most/all of the second comments’ points.
On a different note, the Marlow piece was an interesting piece of history and autobiography, as well as for pointing out the tendency for researchers to jump to government intervention from pointing out market failure, without considering the costs of both private accommodation of the externality and government solutions. Whether he’s right that smoking ban advocates have tended toward this is a different matter, but I think that is very common and easy to do. There are enough caveats to the Coase theorem to make it an easy route towards government intervention, and I respected his call towards thorough empirical work done on relative costs of different regimes.
Didn’t Larry Summers cover this issue ?
Why so few women in economics? they, like me, are cowed by the awe inspiring resume of Susan Athey:
http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~athey/
She makes me think that I’m wasting my life even when I’m working hard, let along when I’m commenting on blogs.
John: Priceless. color me bullied.
Do you think the “work your butt off to get tenure” model just dropped from the sky? It wasn’t always like that. It’s a sifting mechanism to keep the “wrong” people out of the academy. You know, those wrong people who want to have kids and are expected to look after them.
A lot of tenured female profs that I can think of off the top of my head are married to other academics.
hey buddy amazing post about New issue of Econ Journal Watch
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