Then what else? Pilot and tourism students also complain that they enter the industry at wrong time . . .
[Serious Discussion] Entering academia now, in 2021, is a huge mistake imho.....
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First, if that's the starting point of your paper, you are not doing research, you are doing politics. As it has always been the case, some people with a popular agenda can do exatly that. We treat them with contempt on EJMR, and rightly so.
What you could do is first publish excellent papers that show you are a genuine academic and not someone trying to hijack our discipline to push your agenda. Ideally papers on topics you are not emotionally too conected with. Then you may be ready to ask yourself a big question about what explains labor outcome disparities, and be your worse ennemy, able to find something you did not expect (hint: the most obvious explanations are almost always wrong). Listen to your peers, take their comments seriously, improve the paper. Present it at conferences and seminars, submit it to journals. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT publicize it on twitter.
If you read academic journals seriously, in particular outside of the top 5, you will find a lot of papers finding results that are not "Politically correct."
What if I want to publish a paper arguing that some politically incorrect factors explain labor outcome disparities?
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There are trends, there are subjects that are easier to publish than others due to bandwagon effects. Sometimes, it is linked to what will work in the media, more generally it fits the agenda of well-connected people.
Say, you are doing theory. Since 2009, there has been a flurry of papers on Bayesian Persuasion. As you most certainly know, this is just a fun theory exercise, it has no practical implication. But many top 5 papers have been published on this.
If you decide to work instead on coalition theory, or axiomatic analysis in social choice, you best hope is to publish a JET, and you will most likely publish in Social Choice and Welfare or Journal of Mathematical Economics.
I don't want to say too much about me but I am close to 20 years after PhD and I have published exactly one top 5 (with several coauthors). This paper is objectively not better than the top fields I have published, really. It was just a bit more trendy at the time.
If your goal is to publish top 5 only, you will either need a truly groundbreaking result, or have to follow some bandwagon. That's life. I am here to testify about the life of most academics who do not regularly publish top 5 and have a happy life full of freedom.
Sooooo, I can publish politically incorrect opinions. Just not in the Top 5?
I hope you realize you just explicitly confirmed that there is a tacit blanket of censorship operating at the highest echelons of academia -
?? I do not work on trending topics and I do not publish top 5's, as I just explained. You are not "forced" to publish top 5 unless you want to be a little local celebrity.
So academic freedom = being forced to research "trending topics"?
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?? I do not work on trending topics and I do not publish top 5's, as I just explained. You are not "forced" to publish top 5 unless you want to be a little local celebrity.
So academic freedom = being forced to research "trending topics"?
Are you a researcher or a YouTuber?
This is right, no one is forcing you to go for Top 5. A lot of the discussion here assumes that it's UHRM or bust, but LRMs can have quite fine lives. Academia may be going down the drain but it's not there yet, and the grass isn't as green on the other side either.
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You are not paid to publish opinions but to do research. The fact that some people do it does not make it right.
Sooooo, I can publish politically incorrect opinions. Just not in the Top 5?
I hope you realize you just explicitly confirmed that there is a tacit blanket of censorship operating at the highest echelons of academia -
About w0kes getting more and more power and influence I just want to remind you all of something important. This would *never* happen were not for the *support* and *encouragement* offered by the median leftist. Yes, even the supposedly "moderate" lib.
99 in a 100 times they won't lift a finger or dare to even say "I disagree" to some cr4zy w0kes because they're too afraid. Too afraid of being called one of the "-isms". Not only that they kept lying and using bad faith arguments against people who speak up about it, saying it's only in the humanities, it's a thing only reactionaries and conservatives complain.
Well there you go, I'll laugh when the mob comes for you too. And believe me, it willVery much this. I view the w0ke as basically disobedient children, whose behavior is bad but entirely expected given their just children. But moderate leftists are the parents that have allowed this behavior to persist without correction and discipline, and now these w0ke children are not only not fringe, but have largely captured the mainstream (just look at a typical commercial for any big business).
There are bad actors on all sides. But the moderate left and their paralyzing concern for being called an -ism is exactly the cause for our current disgraceful situation.
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lmaoo
"You have a freedom to do, think, and communicate in academia that you will not find anywhere else. "
Lmao again, thanks for the laughs this early grampsI'm sure you spend a lot of time reading stories online about culture wars. I am a white man in academia since almost 20 years now.
- No one has ever told me what I should do research about
- No one has ever told me what I should put in my lectures
- The same holds for all of my colleagues. I have never met anyone in real life who had his/her academic freedom curtailed
None of my friends in the corporate sector has anything close to that. Most earn much more than me though, I think's it's a fair price to pay.
Sure, there is a lot of talk, and some action, to increase diversity in staff, or to be more careful about understanding the background of our students. The truth is that at the moment more than 80% of our full prof in econ are white males.After only a few years as an AP, I was told by my department head not to invite a speaker who studied race and crime because his results were "not what the university would want to see."
I have a friend who, having done absolutely nothing wrong, is the subject of a brutal witch hunt by disgruntled colleague, aided by the w0ke across the university and the community more broadly.
I'm glad you have - so far - had a good experience. You're lucky. And it likely won't last.
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I dunno there’s a paper on how missionaries are good, actually, in QJE this year (and the whole institutions lit is basically “colonialism: pretty good”) so you can definitely get even poorly done controversial stuff in top 5’s.
Sooooo, I can publish politically incorrect opinions. Just not in the Top 5?
I hope you realize you just explicitly confirmed that there is a tacit blanket of censorship operating at the highest echelons of academia -
Sure buddy
lmaoo
"You have a freedom to do, think, and communicate in academia that you will not find anywhere else. "
Lmao again, thanks for the laughs this early grampsI'm sure you spend a lot of time reading stories online about culture wars. I am a white man in academia since almost 20 years now.
- No one has ever told me what I should do research about
- No one has ever told me what I should put in my lectures
- The same holds for all of my colleagues. I have never met anyone in real life who had his/her academic freedom curtailed
None of my friends in the corporate sector has anything close to that. Most earn much more than me though, I think's it's a fair price to pay.
Sure, there is a lot of talk, and some action, to increase diversity in staff, or to be more careful about understanding the background of our students. The truth is that at the moment more than 80% of our full prof in econ are white males.After only a few years as an AP, I was told by my department head not to invite a speaker who studied race and crime because his results were "not what the university would want to see."
I have a friend who, having done absolutely nothing wrong, is the subject of a brutal witch hunt by disgruntled colleague, aided by the w0ke across the university and the community more broadly.
I'm glad you have - so far - had a good experience. You're lucky. And it likely won't last. -
I dunno there’s a paper on how missionaries are good, actually, in QJE this year (and the whole institutions lit is basically “colonialism: pretty good”) so you can definitely get even poorly done controversial stuff in top 5’s.
Sooooo, I can publish politically incorrect opinions. Just not in the Top 5?
I hope you realize you just explicitly confirmed that there is a tacit blanket of censorship operating at the highest echelons of academia
Missionary is the best position