“Practice (and watch the time of) your oral presentation.”
“For 2nd year students，take one course each semester that requires you to write a paper. It might be that you write a good paper. However, it is more probable that you write a bad paper. But don’t get nervous about it, because before people write good papers [...]

By Austan Goolsbee, speech at the 486th convocation of the University of Chicago
“Congratulations to you graduates. You made it. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s extremely hot and I am going to spend the next fifteen minutes telling you about economics. Let me start, though, by reminding you that we always [...]

If we would try to represent humanity by a village of 100 people, but would preserve the proportions of the peoples on earth, we would find the following composition:
57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 Americans (North and South), 8 Africans
52 female, 48 male
70 Non-white, 30 white
70 Non-Christians, 30 Christians
89 straight, 11 queer

6 persons would hold [...]

“The average … economist is white, middle-class, male, swamped withliterature to absorb or referee, intimidated by his superiors and colleagues,goaded along by two creeds - ‘publish or perish’ and ‘conform or perish’ - and unhappy with the state of current economics. In addition, the typical graduate student - also male, middle class, white - believes [...]

The new science of decision making. It’s not as rational as you think
By Jerry Adler | Newsweek
July 5 issue - Flat on my back, my eyes shrouded with LED goggles and my ears encased in headphones, I was trundled into the maw of an fMRI machine in a basement lab at the California Institute of [...]