I have written that Bob Lucas was the best writer in the profession and offering some examples. Ben Moll improves on this by offering his own work, before and after Lucas' comments. Read his thread to learn how to write sentences that propel the argument forward.
RT @ben_moll: Here is my little Bob Lucas anecdote.
It's about Bob's incredible gift as a writer and his generosity toward his students.
It's the fall of 2009 and I'm a grad student at the University o…
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RT @JamesOrr4: Staggering stats from today's @gideonrachman's podcast. @KeyuJin says China currently dealing with a youth unemployment rate of 20% and above. 25% of college students last year didn't get a job.
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@MerijnKnibbe Did you freaking read what I posted ????
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RT @EliasPapaioann2: when I started the reserach journey, I never thought this was feasible.. @Nature Thanks to Stelios, Sebastian, and Alberto.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06051-2
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RT @HansGruener: Demand for „alternative economic perspectives“ is often driven by the same factor as the demand for „alternative facts“: the interest of those who expect to benefit from them. https://t.co/YpjCBWxCh4
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RT @krassenstein: Former National Security Adviser John Bolton says that World Leaders Consider Trump a 'Laughing Fool'.
When asked about Trump claiming he'd quickly end the Russia/Ukraine war, Bolton, who worked under the Trump White House in 2018-2019, gave his assessment:
"I have been in… https://t.co/53xpzkvXmh https://t.co/doZV4prNnu
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@k_sonin A good choice by Mankiw, then.
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A triumph of good, evidence based, non-partisan policy.
RT @Samfr: England comes 4th in the international comparative reading test PIRLS - the highest ever ranking. The performance of children here held steady during covid but fell back in many other countries. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/may/16/reading-ability-of-children-in-england-scores-well-in-global-survey
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Wow, RFK in 1968 (3 months before his assassination) about what GDP measures and what it does not measure. Quite impressive level for an electoral campaign (even outside of it!).
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/the-kennedy-family/robert-f-kennedy/robert-f-kennedy-speeches/remarks-at-the-university-of-kansas-march-18-1968
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"Brexit has failed ", Nigel Farage.
No more questions, your honor.
Time to start undoing the damage and rebuilding the single market.
RT @mikegalsworthy: 🔥 Extraordinary moment.
Nigel Farage just said on Newsnight: “Brexit has failed”
He volunteered that himself. I also recall him once saying that if Brexit turned out to be a failure, he’d leave the country. I very much look forward to that.
https://t.co/63e6Y5rlwx
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RT @UChi_Economics: Robert E. Lucas Jr., Nobel laureate and pioneering economist, 1937-2023
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/robert-e-lucas-jr-nobel-laureate-and-pioneering-economist-1937-2023
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Do you want to see for yourself:
1) how great a writer Bob Lucas was
2) his view on what economists do
3) a simple, non-math model of a monetary shock?
Then read his fantastic parable of a monetary shock in an amusement park.
https://home.uchicago.edu/~vlima/courses/econ203/fall01/Lucas_wedo.pdf
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RT @Bellmanequation: Bob was amazing and had such a huge impact. To get just a glimpse, read Tom Sargent's "Learning from Lucas" https://www.tomsargent.com/research/Learning_from_Lucas.pdf https://t.co/o4m2Z4YYHe
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Rob Shimer, the Chair of @UChicago 's Econ Department e-mail announcing to the department Robert Lucas passing explains wonderfully how important was his contribution to Macroeconomics. I post it with his permission, with the caveat that it was meant for Lucas' collegues here.
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RT @HansbergRossi: Such a sad day. Bob Lucas, the most important economist in modern macroeconomics, and certainly the most important economist in my life, died today. He was such a deep and honest thinker. He was such a helpful and caring mentor. I owe him so much. Farewell Bob. Thank you.
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Beautiful remembrance of Bob Lucas by a close colleague of many years @JohnHCochrane https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2023/05/bob-lucas.html
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My paper with @johnvanreenen and Claire Lelarge in the AER, and a lot of my research with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg on the knowledge economy, owes a debt to this pathbraking paper
My intellectual debt with Bob Lucas is huge.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3003596
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That was his intensity. He was always learning, always trying to figure out the next problem. And few people did as much to advance economics.
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He was very disappointed, almost upset, by my answer:
"Ideas are hard. What you do not understand takes over your life. You puzzle over it, you cannot sleep until you solve it. This is not a game you enjoy. This is a challenge that obsesses you." He said.
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Lucas approach me, asked me how I was doing.
I said after two brutal years, I was very happy. I was enjoying thinking about ideas, about which problem I would tackle for my dissertation, reading a lot and learning a lot, trying to figure out the next step.
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