Don’t name yourselves...
Most promising theorist under 35?
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As in every other intellectual line of work, It’s also about spotting talents with new narratives and fresh points of focus, then following the development of discourse through their work
Why do you care? Academia is about producing ideas, not about crowning someone as the Smartest Of All.
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This doesn’t mean that the theory has lost its value. Quite the opposite, it shows sterling work on the frontier is rare, and even more noteworthy
Who cares? Look at the last 10 JBC winners. Saez, Duflo, Levin, Finkelstein, Chetty, Gentzkow, Fryer, Sannikov, Pathak. One theorist out of ten. That tells you the relative value placed on theory in today's economics.
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I do care! I wanna produce babies with the smartest one to make sure my offsprings have the best genes.
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Who cares? Look at the last 10 JBC winners. Saez, Duflo, Levin, Finkelstein, Chetty, Gentzkow, Fryer, Sannikov, Pathak. One theorist out of ten. That tells you the relative value placed on theory in today's economics.