The fact that Leeper is answering the accusations in this thread shows the accusations are true indeed.
Leeper leaving Indiana University
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I'm from one of these places. He didn't get an offer from us. Though he did try
He has been looking for jobs everywhere. I hope he finally found one and he settles down.
He had offers from LSE, Cambridge and Oxford but didn't accept any of them since salary was considered too low from him.
If this is true, I'm wondering whether UVA offered a lot of money or he accepted just to move on to a different place. -
I was told that when he visited Cambridge and Oxford he made clear that he would not consider offers below a certain threshold.... Some brits were shocked by the arrogance of such attitude...
Ha, ha. Imagine if Cambridge and Oxford profs thought you were arrogant. At least Leeper has earned it, unlike many of them.
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Leeper is destroyed here.
Oh EJMR...
Walker: Love him.
Leeper: One of the only people I dislike in the profession. He is false, disingenuous, mean to young people.
I hope UVA did not hire him or that's the end of them.We'll take your unsolicited anonymous post about a person you've never met with all due seriousness. Given to your staggering insights into the personality and scholarship of a complete stranger, we are considering giving you the position, but our Dean will not make offers to anonymous people (which in my opinion, given the obvious deep and transformative ideas you display in this comment about an individual with whom you have no connection, is clearly short-sighted and likely due to a bias against unsubstantiated theories). Therefore, we'll need your name, affiliation, and CV posted here so that an intellect of your quality can be suitably rewarded.
Respectfully,
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Leeper is destroyed here.
Oh EJMR...Walker: Love him.
Leeper: One of the only people I dislike in the profession. He is false, disingenuous, mean to young people.
I hope UVA did not hire him or that's the end of them.We'll take your unsolicited anonymous post about a person you've never met with all due seriousness. Given to your staggering insights into the personality and scholarship of a complete stranger, we are considering giving you the position, but our Dean will not make offers to anonymous people (which in my opinion, given the obvious deep and transformative ideas you display in this comment about an individual with whom you have no connection, is clearly short-sighted and likely due to a bias against unsubstantiated theories). Therefore, we'll need your name, affiliation, and CV posted here so that an intellect of your quality can be suitably rewarded.
Respectfully,
The Entire UVA Economics DepartmentI'm not sure c8b0 understood the letter. He seems kinda dumb.
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I was told that when he visited Cambridge and Oxford he made clear that he would not consider offers below a certain threshold.... Some brits were shocked by the arrogance of such attitude...
Ha, ha. Imagine if Cambridge and Oxford profs thought you were arrogant. At least Leeper has earned it, unlike many of them.
Stop saying bad things about oxbridge. We create the next generation of politicians and scholars, that's the reality of it. And we have plenty of top researchers. Be real, not envy, please.
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Update: Apparently Leeper is saying that he's serious about moving this time around because both his kids are about to go to college, and that his wife is tired of Indiana. He hasn't mentioned Walker so far. People at UVA have been reading and gossiping about what has been said in this post the past week or so. Leeper seems to be aware of what has been posted here as well.
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I like Leeper, but I can just imagine how happy all the other departments who have made him offers in the past must feel that he serious about moving THIS TIME.
Update: Apparently Leeper is saying that he's serious about moving this time around because both his kids are about to go to college, and that his wife is tired of Indiana. He hasn't mentioned Walker so far. People at UVA have been reading and gossiping about what has been said in this post the past week or so. Leeper seems to be aware of what has been posted here as well.
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Would somebody e-mail IU's Dean warning him to put aside 40K for next year's budget? He'll bring Walker on the negotiating table (once he hooks the offer) again to first promote him to full, and get himself more money for his center. As the guy below says LRMs are going to LRM.
Ok folks, I know that UVA people will be reading this thread (perhaps one revived it for that particular reason). Leeper is perhaps the most conning person you'll encounter. He's smart and all, but he has priced himself out of the market with all the offers he has generated in the past 15 years (hear earns roughly 360K right now at IU). Every time, it's the same history, knowingly or not, some decent departments have played his game and given him an offer (in the UT-Austin case he forced them to give one to Walker), he then runs to whoever is the Dean at the time at IU and demands all these things (and for some reason there are given to him), he then goes back to the department that gave him an offer and says that his wife, kids, of whatnot don't want to move, etc., etc., etc. Over half his current colleagues will be happy to see him leave, but they know he won't. My advise, save yourself the drama, take the 400K you're planning to spend on him and perhaps the 240K you plan to spent on walker and spend it on somebody who still cares about writing good papers, train and mentor students and think of the well-being of the department instead of himself.
They've gone out for letters. LRM gonna LRM
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Eric Leeper is not the douchebag you think he is. He is superbly humble.
Take a look at his response to this question in a recent interview:
EF: Which economists have influenced you the most?
Leeper: That's a long list. Everybody has been influenced by Milton Friedman. I think I've been more influenced by James Tobin. His view about things is more nuanced but also more complicated, which is probably why it didn't catch on as much as Friedman's did. Chris Sims was my adviser; he obviously had a lot of influence on my thinking, and so did Neil Wallace and Tom Sargent. Those faculty members at Minnesota taught me the importance of coherent theory that is tightly linked to data.
A bunch of co-authors have influenced me. My first co-author was David Gordon, and he taught me price theory. Jon Faust has been influential because he's very eclectic in his thinking and it encourages me to step out of models, which is scary. The list of co-authors goes on: Campbell Leith taught me a lot about optimal policy. Troy Davig taught me about Markov switching. My colleague Todd Walker has taught me a lot about estimating DSGE models. Huixin Bi taught me about fiscal limits. So a lot of influences. Maybe that's why I'm so confused.