The good news: Student learning takes off at Harvard (with especially great student learning during the pandemic!), as shown by rising percent of A grades in Harvard classes since 2005
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Timothy Taylor
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Timothy Taylor
@TimothyTTaylor
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Conversable Economist
- I accepted long ago that my work as Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives would happen behind the scenes. Thus, I am astonished and very, very pleased to have been named a 2025 Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono…
- My very own holiday present. Bill Gates strongly recommends three economics courses I recorded a few years back for the Teaching Company: Principles of Economics, The Global Economy, and Unexpected Economics gatesnotes.com/Economics?WT.m…
- "Sixty-four years after being declared “biologically dead,” London’s River Thames is in the midst of a revival, boasting lower levels of chemicals and making it inhabitable for seals, sea horses and even sharks."
- Fall 2025 Journal of Economic Perspectives Freely Available Online conversableeconomist.com/2025/11/06/fal…
- Joel Mokyr shares the Nobel prize in economics with Aghion and Howitt. In JEP, Mokyr wrote "The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different?" with Chris Vickers and Nicolas L. Ziebarth
- Replying to @JackbmeyerIt's worse than that. First-year college students don't have any particular memory of the economy in 2020, either. After all, those who turn 18 this year were 13 back in 2020, and not many eighth-graders were tracking economic stats during the first year of the pandemic.
- Fall 2024 Journal of Economic Perspectives Free Online conversableeconomist.com/2024/11/06/fal…
- Hayek on Decentralized Information in Markets
- Interview with Stephen Levitt: My Career and Why I’m Retiring From Academia
