This. I don't know him. But I can tell from his face he is a nice guy.
KD was a New York City taxi cab driver for four years. Soon he will be an assistant professor of economics! That's awesome! America is the land of opportunity if you work hard.This. People spouting BS about AA hires don't know how insanely hard this guy works.
They hired two, but that's really not the point. It's hard to get TT anywhere and Nick is a perfectly nice guy who does good work. There's no need to be rude about it.
We thought it is a position in the AgEcon part, given that R Ready was the SC chair.
Future job market candidates would do well to understand how difficult it is to land a TT position in the economics department at a US R1.
How would UMass ag econ compare with a department like Binghamton? My perception is that: UMass Econ >> Binghamton >> UMass ag econ
lol. like lol. this cv got tenure and is a full professor at umass econ without a SINGLE econ publication:
http://www.umass.edu/economics/sites/default/files/CV_Kurtulus_web_08_01_2017.pdf
this is also very recent.
with records like this, no WAY umass econ is above suny binghamton in the mind of anyone remotely familiar with quality econ research.
They hired two, but that's really not the point. It's hard to get TT anywhere and Nick is a perfectly nice guy who does good work. There's no need to be rude about it.
We thought it is a position in the AgEcon part, given that R Ready was the SC chair.
Future job market candidates would do well to understand how difficult it is to land a TT position in the economics department at a US R1.
What are you talking about, he did MIT econ fcs. Even without a PhD in the top department for his field it would be a weal placement!
They hired two, but that's really not the point. It's hard to get TT anywhere and Nick is a perfectly nice guy who does good work. There's no need to be rude about it.We thought it is a position in the AgEcon part, given that R Ready was the SC chair.
Future job market candidates would do well to understand how difficult it is to land a TT position in the economics department at a US R1.
What are you talking about, he did MIT econ fcs. Even without a PhD in the top department for his field it would be a weal placement!
I hope you are not a PhD student. If you are, please talk to your advisors and try to understand how difficult the job market is in applied micro, particularly for the last 2-3 years.
Very relaxed! Agree Maryland Troll. Give me Bruce Gardner, Richard Just, Bob Chambers, Yair Mundlak, D. Gale Johnson, Marc Nerlove, and Erik Lichtenberg -- the real AREC stars. Ag-econ departments that are moving away from agricultural (or resource) economics hires are deluding themselves with some faulty sense of arrogant superiority. This is not to diminish the obvious talent in such hires but rather to point out that this is not the only source of talent. As David Zilberman, recent AAEA President, said--"let's keep the ag in agecon."
Erik Lichtenberg must have written this himself. No one else would put him in the same class with those other guys.
Could be Chambers too.
Nah. If Chambers had written it, there's no way Lichtenberg's name would've made the list.
Agree.
When Lopez ditched Umd,
About Bob Chambers he ranted: "Chambers is very arrogant and always upset."
About Lichtenberg, he sneered "he is not that smart , is he?"
At least Bob Chambers is smart enough for Lopez