Michael B. Ward

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Michael B. Ward

Michael B. Ward

@embeeward

Professor and Head of Monash Economics Department @embeeward.bsky.social

Melbourne, Australia Katılım Mart 2022
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Yves Zenou
Yves Zenou@yveszenou1·
I'm organizing a two-day summer school on networks (10-11 September) at Monash University where Matt Jackson (@JacksonmMatt ), Sanjeev Goyal, and myself will teach a 12 hours course. It is free and anybody interested can apply here: monash.edu/business/event…
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Michael B. Ward@embeeward·
@aortmannphd Honestly, this is just ridiculous. It's a class that starts around August. The first replication report was dropped 3 weeks ago. I've had a few more pressing matters to look into the past couple weeks, like helping affected PhD students. Little tired of assumptions of bad faith.
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Productivity Commission
Productivity Commission@ozprodcom·
PC Summer Internships 2024-25 | We are offering internships in our Canberra and Melbourne offices for high achieving students who are interested in working on public policy issues affecting the welfare of Australians. bit.ly/3MKXlIm Applications close Sun 6 October 2024
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Michael B. Ward@embeeward·
Monash colleagues: staff get to elect ONE member of Council, the governing body of Monash. Please vote! for the candidate(s) of your choice. I am one of those standing for election. To vote: on Sep 10, you should have received a voting link by email: subject "Vote Now ..."
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Michael B. Ward@embeeward·
What a fantastic recruiting year we had! Monash Economics welcomes Lisa Botbol (Toulouse), Alexander Haas @ahaas_econ (Oxford), Santiago Hermo (Brown), and Kate Huang (Caltech) as our newest members. Great people and great economists all.
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Michael B. Ward@embeeward·
@DinaPomeranz Looking at US academic jobs only, it's only down 10%. JOE is likely losing market share to EconJobMarket, etc for other sectors. If so, it's a well-deserved loss (poorly designed, poorly run, high-priced).
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Michael B. Ward@embeeward·
@PseudoVoegelin @ash_craig As someone who just acquired (dual) Australian citizenship after living here 17 years and contributing quite a lot to Australia, I think it's quite easy to argue against banning dual citizenship. But as you haven't provided any argument FOR stripping my rights, I'll pass.
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Pseudo-Voegelin
Pseudo-Voegelin@PseudoVoegelin·
@ash_craig Why should stripping citizenship not be allowable under any circumstances? It prob would violate int'l law to leave someone stateless. But eg stripping citizenship of someone who acquires dual citizenship or votes in a foreign election seems difficult to argue against
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Ashley Craig
Ashley Craig@ash_craig·
This is wrong, and disturbingly bipartisan. Citizenship should not be revocable for any reason. Nothing prevents severe penalties, but citizenship also comes with basic rights and govt responsibilities (albeit not many in Australia). Shirking them is wrong.
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Michael B. Ward@embeeward·
@PitchfordRohan 1) Why compete for quota? Just assign each uni a quota. That's what gov't did with capping CSP. 2) Unis are part of govt. Cannot simply ignore revenue loss and count only that going to Treasury. Still gov't revenue, and it lessens direct payment needed for unis from Treasury.
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Rohan Pitchford
Rohan Pitchford@PitchfordRohan·
@embeeward The tax revenue goes to the government. Uni fees go directly to the universities. And because they compete internally for quota, resource will be wasted and the effective tax lower.
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Rohan Pitchford
Rohan Pitchford@PitchfordRohan·
Here's a first-analysis showing why Chris Richardson's quota on international students is bad economics. Check out the forgone tax revenue, Mr Treasurer, from replacing the quota with an equivalent tax. Get some alternative opinions. abc.net.au/news/2023-11-2…
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Michael B. Ward@embeeward·
@ZacGross @Noahpinion Do these pro-DPRK leftists actually exist, at least in meaningful numbers? Never met one myself. Maybe I've just been away from SFBay for too long now.
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Zac Gross
Zac Gross@ZacGross·
@Noahpinion Why bother engaging with people who are both wrong and incapable of arguing in good faith?
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Michael B. Ward@embeeward·
@gdjeste No idea who you are or how you ended up on my feed, but followed bc you were funny AF. Still are. Of course, chances are at least one of us is actually a bot.
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Michael B. Ward@embeeward·
@rdahis If you're not getting rejected a fair bit, then you're not aiming high enough.
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Michael B. Ward@embeeward·
Proud to have cast my first vote yesterday as a new Australian citizen: YES.
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Michael B. Ward@embeeward·
@asphilosophyas @iVinodMishra First off, ACU did a shabby thing to you, though not sure who you are. Monash is actively trying to help some hurt by ACU. Don't conflate us. Second, bad things can happen in US too. Look at West Virginia U right now. US universities also can and have cut whole units.
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Vinod Mishra
Vinod Mishra@iVinodMishra·
Monash Economics is hiring. The Monash Department of Economics invites expressions of interest from outstanding scholars in any field of economics for tenure-track Lecturer or Senior Lecturer positions. econjobmarket.org/positions/9878
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Michael B. Ward@embeeward·
@krisgulati Your university should have a policy on co-authorships, and you would qualify under any reasonable standard. Such conversations should be grounded in the policy, not on what people think is or isn't deserved. See e.g. mga.monash.edu/get-help/advoc…
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