Nobel Laureate Oliver Williamson joins EJW Advisory Council
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EJW is proud to announce that Oliver Williamson of University of California, Berkeley, has joined the EJW Advisory Council. Professor Williamson was awarded the Nobel prize in economics in 2009 for his analysis of transaction costs, markets, and hierarchies.
Best of Econ Journal Watch at APEE, Las Vegas, April 11-13, 2010
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Klein, Benson, White, and perhaps Selgin and Foldvary, and many EJW friends and authors, will be at the conference of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, which will continue its tradition of staging “Best of Econ Journal Watch“ sessions.
Inside Higher Ed focuses on EJW
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EJW was the focus of a major and sympathetic article in Inside Higher Ed, Who You Calling Heterodox? (Oct 3, 2007). The article devoted numerous paragraphs to EJW, and treated EJW editor Dan Klein as the central figure of a classical-liberal “counterinsurgency.”
EJW featured in Regional Focus
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In October 2008 the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond published Unsteady State [PDF], the lead article of its journal Regional Focus. The theme of the issue is “The State of Modern Economics.” The article begins by telling of the formation of EJW and the meeting in St. Louis in 2003, and returns to EJW at the end of the article.
Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize
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When Paul Krugman won the Nobel prize, the front page article of the New York Times carried this paragraph:
Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz joins EJW Advisory Council
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EJW is proud to announce three new members of the EJW Advisory Council:
AIER Partners with Econ Journal Watch
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Great Barrington, MA — The American Institute for Economic Research is pleased to announce a new partnership with the scholarly journal Econ Journal Watch.
Announcement: New 4-year Fellowships to be awarded by the Department of Economics at Florida State University
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The Florida State University Economics Department will be awarding up to two four-year Charles G. Koch Fellowships to students entering the PhD program in Economics, beginning with the Fall 2009 entering class. The purpose of the fellowships is to support students who wish to pursue a course of study that combines rigorous technical economic training in applied econometrics and economic theory with a focus on the political economy of contemporary economic issues, particularly the role of institutions in advancing prosperity.
Daniel Klein on Groupthink in Academia
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Dan Klein of George Mason University recently spoke with EconTalk host Russ Roberts on truth in economics, bias, and groupthink in academic life. Along the way they discussed the Food and Drug Administration (and the drug approval process), the culture of academic life and the roles of empirical evidence and prediction markets in adjudicating academic disagreement.