^ I can’t believe that Stefan would post here on EJMR.
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^ I can’t believe that Stefan would post here on EJMR.
Hier ist es anonym, aber auf Twitter sieht man es: Rudi Bachmann greift Stefan Homburg jeden Tag an, seine Obsession.
SH antwortet nie auf RR, sieht ihn wohl nicht als satisfaktionsfaehig an.
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https://www.wiwi.uni-due.de/news/einzelansicht/trauer-um-herrn-prof-dr-ansgar-belke-21317/
What happened? No mentioning of illness or some accident makes for a very sad conclusion.
Nooooooooooo! Seriously?? This is a terrible loss.
What happened?
Mein Beileid. Ich kannte ihn nur relativ flüchtig, aber er war sehr hilfsbereit und engagiert. Auf jeden Fall ein Verlust für Duisburg Essen.
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This. Why is it, in Germany, academics who seem to undermine a science-led COVID response by the government? Homburg, VfS Aufruf, DFG's endorsement of a COVID denier...
I am really afraid about the future of Germany's science culture:
https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article212621293/Dieter-Nuhr-Deutsche-Forschungsgemeinschaft-loescht-Beitrag.htmlDFG made a mistake in the first place, that's what would afraid me. Is there nobody who thinks about such things? Why would you invite somebody like Nuhr who isn't interested in actual science?
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What a b/u/l/l/s/h/i/t. What counts is a balanced approach. Experts like Drosten do get much attention by the public, be sure about that.
This. Why is it, in Germany, academics who seem to undermine a science-led COVID response by the government? Homburg, VfS Aufruf, DFG's endorsement of a COVID denier...
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From where he had started his career, he could have chosen among nearly every place in the world, but he chose Goettingen (well, Munich first) to finally bring development economics to Germany, which is a merit by itself.
Further, 16k citations should put him in the very-deserving-group of German economists for Gossen prize (or any other prize) (https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=de&user=iO0lyCgAAAAJ).
You can argue his empirical methods are quite 1990-2000ish, which is true, but he has been using them to consistently kick off new debates and questions.
Behind the scenes, his graduates have been working a lot with German devleopment organizations like GIZ, KfW, etc. You can't run RCTs with these stakeholders, but you can invest some time, go to the field with them and collect data to at least guide their work. Important reminder that there is a lot of development cooperation happening that the RCT crowd isn't interested in but which still needs expert advice.Can someone tell me more about Klasen? I got the point about his sickness, which is terrible - I really feel sorry. But what's great about him, apart from being pretty much the only development economist in Germany?
I'm not asking rhetorical question. I'm a German but abroad. Not really in development so not super familiar with the field. Just trying to understand.
From outside it's hard to understand. His research is not awesome. Goettingen seems like a very inbreeding club, with Vollmer making his career there and succeeding him (?). Germany has completely missed out on the RCT revolution. Now you can tell me that that's a merit in fact, and it's good that Klasen did not jump on this fad. But it remains as a fact that Germany was completely cut off of this major research strand of the last two decades. So what did Klasen/Goettingen produce instead?
Again just trying to understand."Der Gustav-Stolper-Preis des Vereins für Socialpolitik soll hervorragende Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen auszeichnen, die mit Erkenntnissen wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Forschung die öffentliche Diskussion über wirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge und Probleme beeinflusst und wichtige Beiträge zum Verständnis und zur Lösung ökonomischer Probleme im internationalen Vergleich geleistet haben." So what's his outstanding contribution? And what are those of the other candidates?
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Is it so hard for you to check out his research profile? His main contributions are to the following topics: Missing women, gender inequality and growth, poverty measurement, pro-poor growth, female labor force participation in developing countries. Seems sufficient.
From where he had started his career, he could have chosen among nearly every place in the world, but he chose Goettingen (well, Munich first) to finally bring development economics to Germany, which is a merit by itself.
Further, 16k citations should put him in the very-deserving-group of German economists for Gossen prize (or any other prize) (https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=de&user=iO0lyCgAAAAJ).
You can argue his empirical methods are quite 1990-2000ish, which is true, but he has been using them to consistently kick off new debates and questions.
Behind the scenes, his graduates have been working a lot with German devleopment organizations like GIZ, KfW, etc. You can't run RCTs with these stakeholders, but you can invest some time, go to the field with them and collect data to at least guide their work. Important reminder that there is a lot of development cooperation happening that the RCT crowd isn't interested in but which still needs expert advice.Can someone tell me more about Klasen? I got the point about his sickness, which is terrible - I really feel sorry. But what's great about him, apart from being pretty much the only development economist in Germany?
I'm not asking rhetorical question. I'm a German but abroad. Not really in development so not super familiar with the field. Just trying to understand.
From outside it's hard to understand. His research is not awesome. Goettingen seems like a very inbreeding club, with Vollmer making his career there and succeeding him (?). Germany has completely missed out on the RCT revolution. Now you can tell me that that's a merit in fact, and it's good that Klasen did not jump on this fad. But it remains as a fact that Germany was completely cut off of this major research strand of the last two decades. So what did Klasen/Goettingen produce instead?
Again just trying to understand."Der Gustav-Stolper-Preis des Vereins für Socialpolitik soll hervorragende Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen auszeichnen, die mit Erkenntnissen wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Forschung die öffentliche Diskussion über wirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge und Probleme beeinflusst und wichtige Beiträge zum Verständnis und zur Lösung ökonomischer Probleme im internationalen Vergleich geleistet haben." So what's his outstanding contribution? And what are those of the other candidates?
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^ I can’t believe that Stefan would post here on EJMR.
Hier ist es anonym, aber auf Twitter sieht man es: Rudi Bachmann greift Stefan Homburg jeden Tag an, seine Obsession.
SH antwortet nie auf RR, sieht ihn wohl nicht als satisfaktionsfaehig an.
https://twitter.com/BachmannRudi/status/1289365206552834048Or SH ignores RR since RR is mostly opinion and gossip.