Yes.
But there will be a backlash. The hardcore female gang already blocked him.
He will be fine in his position but I know that some agents want to punish him.
Rudi Machmann is the Man
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Rudi is not LRM. HRM (Yale) PhD and tenured at MRM. That is top 0.1% of our profession.
Sad part is that to some extent he gave in to feminists on twitter on some grounds like affirmative action.
Come on, why do you do that? Econtwitter is a slanted place, does not represent econ profession. And these feminists are minor part even on econ twitter. Why do you even care?
Remember the time Wojtek blasted Zucman and Saez? Before Wojtek, sensible people on econtwitter were just silent because they wanted to get along. Only after Wojtek did it with strong arguments and numbers, people started to follow. There are sensible people on econtwitter. Don't worry about that.
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I don’t understand what Rudi is complaining about though. BM is advertising a very good candidate. Rudi is saying that Notre Dame will not be able to hire the guy, which is probably true, and then goes into a weird rant about HRMs and LRMs . What exactly is his problem? What does it have to do with the candidate?
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Rudi's last tweet was great "If I had to guess the notion is an allusion to the very strict hierarchies that hold in tribes of monkeys. LRMs feel that this captures our profession well. And I am not going to fault them." I'm not sure this is correct history of it, but Rudi da man.
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I sort of agree with Rudi though; attention is costly and why should we waste it.
It sometimes seems the HRM research agenda has reached a level of enlightenment that makes it hard to figure out what they are actually doing.
On the surface it is nice to show concern about inequality and poverty; but is there any chance someone from an African university would ever publish in AER? no, all these pages must be filled by HRM lamenting various injustices.
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I don’t understand what Rudi is complaining about though. BM is advertising a very good candidate. Rudi is saying that Notre Dame will not be able to hire the guy, which is probably true, and then goes into a weird rant about HRMs and LRMs . What exactly is his problem? What does it have to do with the candidate?
I think you miss a crucial part of the story. Rudi praises the candidate and simply says to Ben that places like ND have no interview space to waste because Ben told him they will enjoy the convo (typical HRM move). And then Ben doesn’t know what HRM/LRM means obviously oblivious to the hierarchies in the profession. Rudi explains it to him. What’s wrong with that? It’s Ben who pivots from the candidate to the HRM/LRM issue.
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ND is LRM, not MRM.
Rudi is not LRM. HRM (Yale) PhD and tenured at MRM. That is top 0.1% of our profession.
Sad part is that to some extent he gave in to feminists on twitter on some grounds like affirmative action.
Come on, why do you do that? Econtwitter is a slanted place, does not represent econ profession. And these feminists are minor part even on econ twitter. Why do you even care?
Remember the time Wojtek blasted Zucman and Saez? Before Wojtek, sensible people on econtwitter were just silent because they wanted to get along. Only after Wojtek did it with strong arguments and numbers, people started to follow. There are sensible people on econtwitter. Don't worry about that. -
I don’t understand what Rudi is complaining about though. BM is advertising a very good candidate. Rudi is saying that Notre Dame will not be able to hire the guy, which is probably true, and then goes into a weird rant about HRMs and LRMs . What exactly is his problem? What does it have to do with the candidate?
I think you miss a crucial part of the story. Rudi praises the candidate and simply says to Ben that places like ND have no interview space to waste because Ben told him they will enjoy the convo (typical HRM move). And then Ben doesn’t know what HRM/LRM means obviously oblivious to the hierarchies in the profession. Rudi explains it to him. What’s wrong with that? It’s Ben who pivots from the candidate to the HRM/LRM issue.
Oh Ben definitely knows what HRM/LRM means.
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To be fair: while I like what Rudi says it’s also relatively riskless / costless for him to do so. NDs Econ faculty is fairly country club Republican so he won’t pay any price there. He won’t be hired anywhere else, though, certainly not at Michigan with Wolfers and Betsy calling the shots. Perhaps he and his wife have given up solving their joint location problem?