Sounds like you need a criminal defense attorney. I can recommend a few.
Yeah. My wife sold 7 of them.
She doesn’t do that anymore though. She has a real job now.
When pursuing my undergrad I took it upon myself to read original texts in areas which would now be classified as “heterodox economics”. Interesting yes, practical, no. I would assume having computer literacy is required for any MA program in Economics.
Best post of the thread.
LinusK, don’t go to grad school. Find some other outlet for your current identity crisis. Take some math/econ courses at your local community college, read some books on branches of the field that you don’t currently understand or agree with, maybe find another way to use your law degree that is more interesting / satisfying to you. A PhD is not going to make you happy or successful.
Do you speak from experience?
I can only assume you weren’t reading MMT. It’s extremely practical.
Enough with the math. I’m just saying that if you go into an interview for an Econ department with the attitude that the math is not helpful, you aren’t going to get very far.
Monetary Policy? Definitely. I still follow along on the news. I really don’t know what is in vogue nowadays. I came around when crunching big data was becoming feasible. I used to help crunch, that’s how I got into computers. Though I didn’t go to U of C I did sneak into a few of Stigler’s lectures. I should have brought a tape recorder :smack: Best of luck.
MMT has nothing to do with monetarism, which you may be thinking of. You may also be thinking about the Federal Reserve. Whatever the Fed does or doesn’t do is called 'monetary policy." FWIW, MMT generally focuses more on “fiscal policy”. Not saying monetary policy is unimportant; just that fiscal policy is more important. Sort of like the Fed plays an important, but supporting role.
My website project involves crunching lots of numbers. Want to go 50/50?
I do. I went to graduate school to get a PhD in Heterosexual Economics in my forties after growing bored with the law profession and it was a complete disaster. Everyone got STDs: the students, the professors, the janitors, everyone.
I’ve come back from the future to warn you not to make the same mistake I did.
Huh. I’ll make a deal with you: If you share your time travel tech with me, I’ll do whatever you tell me to do.
Huh, this is not quite what I thought it was – it is a list of students who work on the Inequality Project, which is headed by Galbraith.
http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/group.html
I wasn’t really sure from the text whether this is his entire research group or just a portion of it. Anyway, it would be a good place to start, and papers from UTIP are available from that same website.
Here is a list of ALL LBJ grad students:
http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/students/phd
They don’t have advisors listed… but you could probably see from the topics which of them looked interesting to you.
Grad school in economics specifically. Any economics grad school program worth its salt is going to involve a huge amount of math of the kind that you have specifically said you don’t like – take a look, for example, at the link from Salt Lake that I posted earlier where they actually spell out what math you are going to need to know to take the classes for the program.
Grad school in public policy (including LBJ) sounds much more like what you would enjoy, and the math they use appears to be much more along the lines of what you actually do enjoy.