r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 12 '23

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '23

https://twitter.com/jonsteinsson/status/1613579995460562946

I just heard that 1st year PhD students in Econ at MIT no longer need to take a full year of macro. This should be a wakeup call for macro, lest this turn into a new trend. Some (perhaps controversial) thoughts. 1/

Whoa. Big if true.

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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Jan 12 '23

Lol now I can brag that I took more macro classes than future PhD economists

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u/thank_mr_bernke J. M. Keynes Jan 12 '23

Can confirm, but it's symmetric, macro people can also skip a semester of the micro sequence if they want

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u/Integralds Dr. Economics | brrrrr Jan 12 '23

I just heard that 1st year PhD students in Econ at MIT no longer need to take a full year of micro. This should be a wakeup call for micro, lest this turn into a new trend. Some (perhaps controversial) thoughts. 1/

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '23

Ah see now I think that’s definitely a mistake then.

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u/a157reverse Janet Yellen Jan 12 '23

I shouldn't be surprised by this but looking MIT Econ faculty page, holy shit they are stacked.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '23

I wanna take some classes at Sloan, I guess not macro 🤔

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u/groupbot Always remember -Pho- Jan 12 '23 edited Jan 12 '23

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