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| Russ Roberts |
Russ is a very good interviewer, and the EconTalk series quite interesting.
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| Russ Roberts |
Comments are welcome. Keep it short, polite, and on topic.
Thanks to a few abusers I am now moderating comments. I welcome thoughtful disagreement. I will block comments with insulting or abusive language. I'm also blocking totally inane comments. Try to make some sense. I am much more likely to allow critical comments if you have the honesty and courage to use your real name.
Off topic, but he mentioned you by name!
ReplyDeletehttp://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/stupidity-in-economic-discourse-2/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Opinion&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body
I hate to break it to you, but having Krugman insult me by name is not the highlight of my day. Apparently I can't read macro, but just as apparently Krugman is unaware of Google because he posts a quote without link. Or is there a darker reason...
DeleteJohn,
ReplyDeleteIs it me or is Russ Roberts really reaching critical mass? I feel like he's really starting to get the recognition he deserves. Any thoughts?
Very interesting - I hadn't listened to EconTalk for awhile. I offer a footnote to questions about the "employment value" of MOOCs: I work in the institutional investment management industry and I've seen a couple of resume references to Coursera courses, though not yet to your class. I have taken a couple of the Coursera courses, including yours, and I do think they offer value even in their current, early format. I think it's particularly valuable for people like non-finance quants who want to move into this world.
ReplyDeleteVery good interview. As are your other two Econtalk appearances.
ReplyDeleteOff topic (I saw that a different link on this page prompted a post, so maybe you're taking requests...): there's a new interview with John Campbell with Justin Fox. He talks a little about the habit model you two created. He also has a new draft paper on the Nobel Laureates.
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/why-those-guys-won-the-economics-nobels/
http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/campbell/files/campbell2013nobel_032914.pdf
John,
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think about this? http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1592560/000119312514128742/d627523d424b4.htm
I'm sort of surprised there hasn't been any connection between this sort of American MOOC banter (which I really enjoy!) and the Tarena IPO...
From the MD&A:
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