This is such a great video - I’m a first year econ and finance undergrad and it’s my life’s goal to get a Nobel prize in economics and there’s honestly no videos or guidance about how to do so. I love your channel too btw
Economic History and Economic Anthropology are the best ways to understand how real economies work! It’s not surprising that these are the people coming up with novel ideas
"Best" is a normative and subjective claim, not scientific. Focusing on which "classes" of social science you like is reductive and myopic, arguably tribal thinking.
True. I've decided to pursue my PhD in Economic Anthropology, and I'm looking for recommendations on top anthropology departments with a strong focus in this area. Any suggestions on programs known for their expertise in studying the intersection of economics and culture?
I'm not sure how it's handled at Yale but at many of the institutions you mentioned econ history is woven through out classes and the seminar tends to be a potpurri of different topics involving historical data and explaining the past with current methods. I'd say EH isn't a major field of economics but an application of micro, macro, and metrics. This appears to be an idiosyncratic problem rather than a problem in the field overall to me.
Hi Prof, I'd be keen to hear your thoughts about the two different notions of "Economic History" in universities today - programs of the same name being offered in parallel by departments of History and departments of Economics under the same school. The humanities scholars investigate things like how particular commodities spread around the world, how something that was deemed repugnant could become a popular consumer good, and vice versa etc. Then there's the social scientists doing economic history basically trying to tighten controls with newer instrumental variables. But both seem to be seeking different truths, where the economists want to find standardized answers, and historians want to develop context specific, N=1 answers, sometimes even considering individual human actors as major historical agents. As someone trained in the humanities for undergrad and transitioning to development econometrics for grad school, I see the merits in both and am keen to integrate them in doctoral work when I'm done with my masters, but (perhaps reflecting the data you highlighted) it's hard to find supervisors who could help me straddle both domains. So I'm considering applying to both Econ and History PhD programs next year and hopefully get a committee with at least one scholar from the other department as advisors.
It's called AEA JOE: American Economic Association Joe Openings for Economists. Just google it and you'll find the listings for this year and previous years.
Economic development involves controllable and uncontrollable, subjective and objective factors. Economists’ explanations of economic development are inherently contradictory. They emphasize the role of institutions but wantonly dismiss the role of culture. I think this is wrong because institutions are the product of culture; social culture, political culture and war culture.
This is such a great video - I’m a first year econ and finance undergrad and it’s my life’s goal to get a Nobel prize in economics and there’s honestly no videos or guidance about how to do so. I love your channel too btw
hi i wish you would post videos more often, as an econ student your videos are so helpful for me.
Thanks! Hoping that I will be able to post more too.
Please make a video on how to choose a research topic and how to write research papers in economics
Economic History and Economic Anthropology are the best ways to understand how real economies work! It’s not surprising that these are the people coming up with novel ideas
"Best" is a normative and subjective claim, not scientific. Focusing on which "classes" of social science you like is reductive and myopic, arguably tribal thinking.
@@shane_rm1025 these classes study the reality of economics. But you can stay inside the box of econ academia with your pointless jargon.
True. I've decided to pursue my PhD in Economic Anthropology, and I'm looking for recommendations on top anthropology departments with a strong focus in this area. Any suggestions on programs known for their expertise in studying the intersection of economics and culture?
@@shashishshamikamal5812 no clue. But check out the Society for Economic Anthropology, they’ll be able to point you in the right direction
The most important part about getting the prize is making sure you adhere to mainstream economics 😂.
I'm not sure how it's handled at Yale but at many of the institutions you mentioned econ history is woven through out classes and the seminar tends to be a potpurri of different topics involving historical data and explaining the past with current methods. I'd say EH isn't a major field of economics but an application of micro, macro, and metrics. This appears to be an idiosyncratic problem rather than a problem in the field overall to me.
Hi Prof, I'd be keen to hear your thoughts about the two different notions of "Economic History" in universities today - programs of the same name being offered in parallel by departments of History and departments of Economics under the same school. The humanities scholars investigate things like how particular commodities spread around the world, how something that was deemed repugnant could become a popular consumer good, and vice versa etc. Then there's the social scientists doing economic history basically trying to tighten controls with newer instrumental variables. But both seem to be seeking different truths, where the economists want to find standardized answers, and historians want to develop context specific, N=1 answers, sometimes even considering individual human actors as major historical agents.
As someone trained in the humanities for undergrad and transitioning to development econometrics for grad school, I see the merits in both and am keen to integrate them in doctoral work when I'm done with my masters, but (perhaps reflecting the data you highlighted) it's hard to find supervisors who could help me straddle both domains. So I'm considering applying to both Econ and History PhD programs next year and hopefully get a committee with at least one scholar from the other department as advisors.
Understood. I’ll get right to it
I am interested in how you got these job opening statistics. Could you share?
It's called AEA JOE: American Economic Association Joe Openings for Economists. Just google it and you'll find the listings for this year and previous years.
Economic development involves controllable and uncontrollable, subjective and objective factors. Economists’ explanations of economic development are inherently contradictory. They emphasize the role of institutions but wantonly dismiss the role of culture. I think this is wrong because institutions are the product of culture; social culture, political culture and war culture.
I hope you can answer a simple question too.... "How to Actually Make a Patent in the Economics Fields...?"
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