I am so smart; S-M-R-T

March 31, 2006

“D’oh! I mean S-M-A-R-T!”

Grades are in this quarter, and I’m certainly happy to say that I’ve done better in my first legitimate grad-school semester than I ever did in undergrad, where I twice missed the Dean’s list by a mere 7/100 of a Grade-Point.

I’ve got a solid A- average right now, and hope to keep that up (or higher) if possible. Starting next week, I’ll be taking Business Ethics, which is heavily into Aristotle, and Interest Rates & Capital Markets, which probably does not have much to do with Aristotle at all.

In the summer, I will be taking a course in Risk Management, even though I don’t need it, and I will be studying at the Mises Institute for their summer seminar, in August. This fall, I will be completing my coursework with Advanced Macro, and Early Economic Thought (basically, the beginning of time, up to and including Marx).

Then I have to write a thesis. I’m taking suggestions via e-mail or just leave a comment.


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  1. KipEsquire March 31, 2006 2:01 pm

    Bravo on the grades.

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    School vouchers are a good (and hot) topic for libertarian graduate economics students. Or the impact of land-use restrictions — that’s always fun. Or the fallacy of antitrust. Or…

  2. doinkicarus March 31, 2006 3:27 pm

    I really like the idea of dominant assurance contracts and the provision of public goods - I’m not sure how popular of a topic that is.

  3. Mahndisa S. Rigmaiden April 7, 2006 1:10 am

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    Congratulations on your grades. I recall you wrote about nervousness in Calculus not too long ago. Apparently you will be okay:)!!! I am curious about time scales in various tax laws, meaning from the time a piece of tax law or reform is signed how long does it take for the population to feel the effects? And what are the long term impacts of the Bush Tax cuts. I guess I am curious about inheritence and how that impacts our fiscal policies and deficits etc…But I don’t know if that is for an accountant getting a PhD or an econ student.

    I don’t have the time to research that now, as I have been focusing on loop quantum gravity and other areas of interest in physics. Take Care and best wishes for your future.

    BTW the Mises Institute eh? Rock on!

  4. Mahndisa S. Rigmaiden April 7, 2006 1:13 am

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    Hmmm maybe you should choose an unpopular but needed topic to study. In that way you can truly contribute something unique to the field. Another thing is that whatever you do, integrate different disciplines. It seems like in this marketplace and indeed in academia, there is more of a push to have a diverse skill set. E.G. The husband is a system architect for social scientists and designs their analysis plans as well as their computational framework. However the formalism he uses for his analysis plans are just as useful for economics, physics and even computational biology. Ithink John Nash was able to do well because he blended mathematical rigor with studies of human nature…

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