we are losing the brightest minds of our generation to MBAs. everyday i wake up and a former marx enjoyer tells me they’re applying to HBS

10 Excellent Econ Papers & Speeches 1) Equality of What? Amartya Sen Sen's ability to synthesise economics and philosophy is beautifully demonstrated here, outlining various approaches to equality and his own "capability approach". Definitely worth a read. https://t.co/PwqKUT62oX

My take on the elections results. Competitive welfarism leaves to undifferentiation of parties in that regard.

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The Day is finally here! Applications for the LAMP Fellowship 2024-25 are now open. Apply for an exciting opportunity to work with MPs and learn about Parliament, policy, and politics. Link to apply: https://t.co/JtlxhZ0F37 Deadline: December 23, 2023

We are excited to announce a thrilling opportunity for all economics and policy enthusiasts to work as a Research Assistant for our podcast! Send in your CV and a short paragraph on how you are a good fit for this role to be considered.

Studying at Sciences Po vs La Sorbonne

Development economics has gradually become dominated by the idea that 'microinterventions' will solve global poverty. It's a dangerous idea because, well, it doesn't solve global poverty. In this article in the FT, David Pilling (@davidpilling) criticises this idea really well.

Remembering the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie. Curie was born #OnThisDay in 1867.

Are you an Econ PhD student based out of India ? Do you want an opportunity to present and get detailed feedback from faculty members? Then apply to SERI- D Conference 2023. Go to https://t.co/bP7qQe3n2j and submit. Last date 8th Nov. #EconTwitter

If you're thinking about applying to foreign universities for Master's and PhD and you need guidance about navigating SoP and scholarship applications, do not hesitate to reach out to me. #HigherEducation #education #studyabroad #Scholarship

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Differential geometers:

I know people are excited by LLMs. They are miraculous despite their issues. But what I constantly have to remind people is that almost everything that runs actual really serious stuff - courts, hospitals - is linear and logistic regression, with variants. Period.

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Development economics deserves its own @xkcd meme:

Computer scientist: The p-value was 0.10, so I tweaked the model until it achieved a p-value of 0.03. Statistician: But… that’s p-hacking! Computer scientist: No, no, no! In our field, it’s called “alignment.” I didn’t like the output, so I applied a bit of RLHF until I did.

Computer scientist: We applied a non-linear sigmoid transformation to the weights in our machine learning model. Statistician: 👀 Computer scientist: 👀 Statistician: So you did a logistic regression? Computer scientist: Yes.

An Econ PhD is useful?