Congratulations on the many impressive accomplishments at the CMA, and very best with the new role.

I want to make it training

athletes often spend a lot of time going from point a to point a and seem to believe that there is a reason to do so ...

the last one is true?
maybe time for a new schtick?
time to write papers ...

I started suggesting that this is probably good advice (for an author) but depressing (socially costly in establish norms of what a paper is supposed to look like). Just one more example to add to prisonners' dilemma examples in class. A third party (e.g. editor) in principle can help internalize

I guess it depends on whether you think that the costs of producing (and reviewing) this length are neglible or not in relation to any (positive?) social value that they may generate.

Probably the right advice for authors (and may be right as first point), but point 1 is depressing as heck to me and why we get these massive unreadable tomes. I'd like to think that editors (try to) fight back on trying to get to essential points and readable papers; but fighting norms is hard.

There's a link in that article to a radio interview with Meg on CBC which is as frank and clear as you would expect.

My old roommate at Oxford switched from law to Sanskrit for undergrad and made a fortune from countless scholarships for which he was the only qualified applicant; obviously in PE now 😂

Folks have put together starter packs of folks to follow. Here is an example bsky.app/starter-pack... but I would search for other topics for people you might be interested in.

On the second there’s work on boundedly rational managers (I have in mind an old paper of Mo Xiao and Avi Goldfarb) that may be relevant but I haven’t really kept track of either literature.

On the first part there’s an old IO literature on conduct parameters that is about the objective function (are we maximizing individual profits or colluding). I think Chris Sullivan at Wisconsin is a more recent contributor and could find more.

and I guess that last example suggests that conformity is not inconsistent with competition... good ideas diffuse (and sometimes people too: RES has now lost data editors to both the AEA and ES).

Also forgot data editors and replication checks which is a big and relatively new innovation that was introduced and rapidly became a norm