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Can I post slides (but not a paper) on my website for a work in progress?

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Why link Romer and Nordhaus in one Nobel Prize?

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Is the Lerner symmetry theorem "true"?

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Argentina. Excess of public labor force. Can the excess of demand over supply devaluate the currency of a country?

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Has a paper ever been rejected by an econ journal, or acceptance rescinded, due to outside pressure?

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Letter Writers for Tenure?

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What is right basic economics to explain huge variability in population density across US states

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Current state of undergraduate econometrics teaching

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When and how is it appropriate for a journal editor to retract acceptance of a forthcoming paper?

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What are the top firms for economists in the US?

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Yield on PhD acceptances

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Handbooks of Economics: Elsevier or Routledge?

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