"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...
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In early 1900s South, some descendants of once-enslaved individuals randomly received large financial windfalls. How did this shock affect their families' trajectories in wealth, health and human capital? Come hear what I found at #ASSA2025 this afternoon!
Seems like you’re worried about student over-confidence, here. Have you given any thought to under-confidence of bright students? Just my thoughts!
Entering my first-year, I was already aware that most of my classmates were better at math than me and that I would need to push myself very hard to pass. A surprise math quiz on day one taught me nothing, and in fact shook my fragile confidence that I deserved to be there.
I think they are using cold-blooded in the legal sense, which refers to the premeditated, planned, nature of a crime. Versus a “hot” crime of passion.
I would love to be added, thanks!
