Observe that the woke sports associations (NBA, NCAA, MLB) stopped their boycotts of "non-woke' states. The boycott of Charlotte (NBA) and Atlanta (MLB) and South Dakota (NCAA, threatened) now appear laughable. Now that Florida and Texas have gone much further in their anti-woke laws then the laws that were protested, the associations decided to shut up and play.
It is easy to be a bully when the cost is small. Notice that when the cost became real - Florida and Texas are BIG MONEY sports states - the bullies got quiet.
The secret and semi-dishonest discrimination against hiring pro-life Christians and Republicans as professors in colleges is the reason for increased political polarization. J. Haidt says it's because of smartphones plus social media, but Bloom's identification of this issue in 1987 shows a much longer lineage.
Republicans in Congress need to repeal tax-exempt status for rich educational orgs (over $10 million in assets?) which discriminate against Republicans, in practice.
All organizations claiming to support "diversity" who exclude pro-life folk should be liable to be sued for false advertising; and be sued, and lose in court.
The USA has plenty of folks who can live in peace with those who disagree with them, as the pro-life folk have been peacefully living and protesting for 50. Orgs with folk who can't live with those who disagree should have their gov't benefits slashed.
My class work and readings in the area economics made it appear that it was light in mathematics relative to the other STEM areas I was focused on. I seemed to remember back in the early '60s, economics was considering dynamics and partial differential equations type calculus that depends upon time dependent equations. The observation that increasing supply doesn't happen instantly with an increase in demand and that time delays can create instabilities was the natural result. Now we see economists who believe that printing money doesn't cause inflation if the inflationary response is delayed, with MMT and similar beliefs in magical thinking.
Economics seems to have moved towards the crazy non-reproducibility and lack of real understanding we find in the "social sciences", whose only claim to "science" is the same as institutions like Creation Science and Christian Science where the word SCIENCE has a completely different meaning than in the STEM areas.
Cochrane's views on health care seemed particularly articulate and exciting. His views on classic fiscal issues are reasonable and intelligent but not unique. Cochrane's militarism and advocacy of escalating warfare with Russia is the opposite of libertarian.
Lots of young people think the left is nuts and see the value in markets. Things can really go either way. South American elections have gone hard left and may trigger disaster. European and American left has pushed hard left and they have been establishing bureaucracies and taking over the law so that they have much more power and political outcomes are much less influenced by elections. There is a burgeoning counter movement. Things can go either way. Who knows. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst :)
I've not followed the sociology of academic economics departments (i.e. the behavior of the professors therein) very closely since I graduated. But I wonder if there is any danger of certain economics programs becoming sociology programs in the foreseeable future. I have in mind U. Chicago - the freshest of fresh-water programs, Rochester, Minnesota, Case Western, George Mason - a fresh-water program in a salt-water state, and others. Not all are "top tier," but they are worth their salt!
I think that you mean that there will be no more top-tier economic departments, at least if you’re using any sort of absolute measure of knowledge and advancement of knowledge about, you know, economics.
I get the mathematics part, but unfortunately, I don't think much sociology is written in readable English, either. Obscurantist jargon is no stranger to the field.
Yes, sociology was lost many, many years ago, and I see the politicization of many other academic/research organizations that used to have ostensibly neutral missions. I fear they are losing their credibility
Observe that the woke sports associations (NBA, NCAA, MLB) stopped their boycotts of "non-woke' states. The boycott of Charlotte (NBA) and Atlanta (MLB) and South Dakota (NCAA, threatened) now appear laughable. Now that Florida and Texas have gone much further in their anti-woke laws then the laws that were protested, the associations decided to shut up and play.
It is easy to be a bully when the cost is small. Notice that when the cost became real - Florida and Texas are BIG MONEY sports states - the bullies got quiet.
The secret and semi-dishonest discrimination against hiring pro-life Christians and Republicans as professors in colleges is the reason for increased political polarization. J. Haidt says it's because of smartphones plus social media, but Bloom's identification of this issue in 1987 shows a much longer lineage.
Republicans in Congress need to repeal tax-exempt status for rich educational orgs (over $10 million in assets?) which discriminate against Republicans, in practice.
All organizations claiming to support "diversity" who exclude pro-life folk should be liable to be sued for false advertising; and be sued, and lose in court.
The USA has plenty of folks who can live in peace with those who disagree with them, as the pro-life folk have been peacefully living and protesting for 50. Orgs with folk who can't live with those who disagree should have their gov't benefits slashed.
My class work and readings in the area economics made it appear that it was light in mathematics relative to the other STEM areas I was focused on. I seemed to remember back in the early '60s, economics was considering dynamics and partial differential equations type calculus that depends upon time dependent equations. The observation that increasing supply doesn't happen instantly with an increase in demand and that time delays can create instabilities was the natural result. Now we see economists who believe that printing money doesn't cause inflation if the inflationary response is delayed, with MMT and similar beliefs in magical thinking.
Economics seems to have moved towards the crazy non-reproducibility and lack of real understanding we find in the "social sciences", whose only claim to "science" is the same as institutions like Creation Science and Christian Science where the word SCIENCE has a completely different meaning than in the STEM areas.
Cochrane's views on health care seemed particularly articulate and exciting. His views on classic fiscal issues are reasonable and intelligent but not unique. Cochrane's militarism and advocacy of escalating warfare with Russia is the opposite of libertarian.
Lots of young people think the left is nuts and see the value in markets. Things can really go either way. South American elections have gone hard left and may trigger disaster. European and American left has pushed hard left and they have been establishing bureaucracies and taking over the law so that they have much more power and political outcomes are much less influenced by elections. There is a burgeoning counter movement. Things can go either way. Who knows. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst :)
As Roger Scruton said before he died: Fortunately, it looks like the universities could shut down soon.
I've not followed the sociology of academic economics departments (i.e. the behavior of the professors therein) very closely since I graduated. But I wonder if there is any danger of certain economics programs becoming sociology programs in the foreseeable future. I have in mind U. Chicago - the freshest of fresh-water programs, Rochester, Minnesota, Case Western, George Mason - a fresh-water program in a salt-water state, and others. Not all are "top tier," but they are worth their salt!
I think that you mean that there will be no more top-tier economic departments, at least if you’re using any sort of absolute measure of knowledge and advancement of knowledge about, you know, economics.
I suspect there will be a new crop of libertarians developing in today’s locked down teenagers.
I get the mathematics part, but unfortunately, I don't think much sociology is written in readable English, either. Obscurantist jargon is no stranger to the field.
Nothing New. When was in graduate school we petitioned to have the AEA not have its convention in police riot Chicago.
Yes, sociology was lost many, many years ago, and I see the politicization of many other academic/research organizations that used to have ostensibly neutral missions. I fear they are losing their credibility