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Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
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Interested in bounded rationality, trust, discrimination, fair compensation, quantitative methods, dataviz, rstats, open source 1stgen Professor of Economics (2005-2022) now Senior Economist at the Stepstone Group economicscience.net
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📉📈 Break Up Big Econ: The economics profession has become insular & status-obsessed, & not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/break-big-econ/679748/ "…the empirical turn in economics may have made our concentration … 1/3

Break Up Big Econ
Break Up Big Econ

The economics profession has become insular and status-obsessed, and not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world.

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problem worse. Empirical research is expensive. …departments should reward research with practical value when hiring & promoting faculty …establish funding streams for #economics#EconSky orig … 2/3

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Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
@davdittrich.bsky.social
Interested in bounded rationality, trust, discrimination, fair compensation, quantitative methods, dataviz, rstats, open source 1stgen Professor of Economics (2005-2022) now Senior Economist at the Stepstone Group economicscience.net
148 followers547 following1.8k posts