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Published May 10, 2022

Doing Economics is Now Out

My book Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School―But Didn’t (MIT Press) is finally out. You can get it here from Amazon, or you can click here for non-Amazon alternatives.

Once you have read it, I would be grateful if you could please take time to review it on Amazon, Goodreads, or B&N, as reviews drive a book’s post-release marketing.

Published April 25, 2022

Why I Wrote “Doing Economics”

My book Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—but Didn’t is coming out in a little over two weeks on May 10. If you would like to have it in hand as soon as it comes out, you can pre-order it here.

With the publisher’s permission, I am sharing an excerpt of the book’s introduction below, after which I explain what the book covers, and how I am qualified to do so.

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Published April 20, 2022

“Doing Economics” on the Hidden Curriculum Podcast

I was fortunate to be interviewed some months ago about my forthcoming book by Alex Hollingsworth (Indiana University) and Sebastian Tello-Trillo (University of Virginia) for their podcast, The Hidden Curriculum.

During our hour-long conversation, we also talked about music, my workflow, some of my recent research, and cookbooks. Listen below:

E54 -How to Negotiate with Matt Notowidigdo – The Hidden Curriculum

In this episode we talk with Matt Notowidigdo about negotiating. Matt is a Professor of Economics at Chicago Booth. He holds a BS in economics, a BS in computer engineering, a MEng in computer science, and a PhD in economics. He is currently a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, and he is a co-editor at American Economic Journal – Economic Policy Notowidigdo and an Associate Editor at the Quarterly Journal of Economics.Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.Alex Hollingsworth is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Ohio State University.Henry Morris is our main editor. He is a student at the University of Virginia studying computer science and mathematics. or of Economics at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Indiana University.In this episode we discussed:Matt’s structured approach to managing no more than six projects at a timeTime management with kids and boundaries after tenureInstitutional differences in how research and teaching loads are supportedWhy lunchtime culture matters for faculty communityA crash course on academic job market negotiations📚 Resources mentioned:BFI EDE (Expanding Diversity in Economics) program: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/edeAEA Summer Program at Howard University: https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/aeaspBook: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss – negotiation insights from a former FBI hostage negotiator🎮 Recommendations of the week:Overcooked – a co-op kitchen game for Nintendo Switch👶 Alex’s rec: PBS Kids Apps🛫 Sebastian’s rec: Altos Odyssey
  1. E54 -How to Negotiate with Matt Notowidigdo
  2. E53 – How to work with large organization to implement research and policy with Mushfiq Mobarak
  3. E52 – Working in Global and U.S. Economic Policy with Sandile Hlatshwayo
  4. E51 – Communicating stats to non-stats people with Jeremy Weber
  5. E50 – Getting better at Teaching with Tal Gross