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Here it is, the article youβve all been waiting for: open.substack.com/pub/jackbmeyerβ¦
Iβve been holding off in pursuit of other topics, but I think itβs about time I write a βwhy institutionsβ article
Jack Meyer ποΈ
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Jack Meyer ποΈ
@Jackbmeyer
Economist. Researching Institutions, Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Inequality. MPhil Student, on leave from @OxfordEconDept, MSc @LseEcHist (RT!=E)
- Macro professors everywhere are struggling with the reality that most students do not in fact βremember 2008β
- Iβm a bit surprised by the number of seemingly sensible people that fell for the βchange my mindβ pretense of campus political debates and imagine these events as some kind of good-faith forum for engaging with different political views
- >there should be fewer countries >map still includes BelgiumThe world does not need more countries, it needs less
- So... the entry-level job market is BAD bad
- Getting banned from the family Catan game for trying to write resource futures contracts into the house rules
- >Major political figure accused of plagiarism in their thesis >Look at examples of plagiarism >Common technical phrases and definitions Is it bad faith or just a complete lack of familiarity with economic research?EXCLUSIVE: Mark Carney faces plagiarism accusations for 1995 Oxford doctoral thesis nationalpost.com/news/mark-carnβ¦
- βSorry I canβt make it Iβve already got plansβ The βplansβ in question:
- Recently discovered evidence that I am planning to do an industrial revolution:Oh...oh dear. The NYPD has found...the @OUPAcademic Oxford Very Short Introduction series. I wonder if he thinks the Antisemitism is also a how-to book.
- my latest investigation for @ConsumerReports is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day β some by more than 10 times !
