It's probably the best time in history to already have a PhD

If you (and others reading this) are completely new to theory, I would recommend reading these short books as beginner's friendly reading materials. This is just a friendly recommendation; you'll find better books eventually. Just avoid Nozick and Hayek.

Or, what recent ideas by heterodox economists were initially dismissed but have since become mainstream economics?

NYT style is recommending tie-less suits with dress sneakers to disown the cons. Bleak.

I matriculated in the DPhil ten years ago today, dropping out of law school at the last minute. Truly a generational fumbling of the bag.

I hadn't read Why Nations Fail, so I never participated in Acemoglu/Robinson discourse on Twitter. But now, having done the reading, and prepped for tonight's interview with Robinson, I think their work is far more thoughtful and creative than the typical academic econ output.

love that it took the ai surveillance state chore coat to open people’s eyes to the not so subtle retvrn-coded conservatism of the “make men men again” menswear accounts. this is the woman who was posting “girls just want a sparkly dress and a racist husband” 8 months ago lmfao

If you think about it, any Nobel laureate in economics counts as economic history if they made their contribution 20+ years