If you subscribe to this blog via email, you may have noticed that this blog has been relatively quiet for the past year or so.
That’s because I have been working a book titled Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School―But Didn’t, which will be published by MIT Press in May 2022.
The book covers writing papers, giving talks, navigating peer review, finding funding, doing professional service, and advising students.
As such, long-time readers of this blog will be familiar with some of the contents of the book (an early version of chapter 2, on writing papers, for instance, can be found here), but much of the book will feature new material.
I wrote that book to foster equity and level the playing field in economics, but a lot of what I discuss is also applicable to other quantitative social sciences (e.g., business, political science, public policy), and so the book will be useful to researchers in those disciplines as well.
Pre-orders drive the attention a book receives in terms of promotion from the publisher and from book sellers, and so if you feel so inclined, consider pre-ordering the book if you think it will be useful to you or someone you know; the book is relatively cheap at $25 for the paperback version, or $19 for the Kindle version. Here is the Amazon pre-order link; see here for alternative options.
(With apologies to those who have seen this announcement before, either on Twitter or via the #OARES mailing list.)