Amanda Gregg
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Associate Professor of Economics, @Middlebury @MiddEcon . Economic history evangelist. @YaleEconomics PhD. Undergrad @PittTweet @PittEcon . Millennial dog parent.
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I enjoyed reading and reviewing Richard Langlois's "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century," a monumental reappraisal of the managerial corporation in political, economic, and cultural context, for .
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@dog_rates
Josie's adjustment to Vermont has gone well, to say the least. She raced in Florida and Alabama.
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My job market paper is forthcoming at AER. It's been a long process. I'll be busy sending notes of gratitude for a while. For now I'll just say that my advisors at Yale (Timothy Guinnane, Naomi Lamoreaux, and Mark Rosenzweig) were absolutely the greatest.
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As of today, I no longer merely assist professors, but am permitted to associate with them as well (a new level of "ass prof.") Here's a chart of the backup plans I made this January on an airplane when I was worrying about tenure.
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Some brief, unsolicited, humbly-offered advice from an assistant professor for those applying for jobs at liberal arts colleges like Middlebury. This is a good gig. And we'd love to hire you! Here are some ways to make yours an easier case, from my limited experience.
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Our statistics/econometrics simulations site has new *extremely cool* modules on confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and the sampling distribution of OLS estimators. A beer for you if you can break it before the semester starts:
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What are your favorite immersive activities for when you need to turn off your anxious brain for a while? Running seems to work, since it apparently makes my brain think I'm dying or something, and music works okay, but I'm always looking for other options.
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Just sent my Very Special Valentine aka tenure packet to Middlebury College.
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Young people on the job market, also hear this: there are many good gigs out there. Shed your prejudices. Open your mind. Learn a bit more about the world.
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I'm putting together a webpage with a list of publicly-available datasets relevant for studying historical enterprises for use in student projects this semester (and for us, too!) Here's my current draft:
Let me know if you have additions!
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📢Update to our statistics/econometrics simulations site! New: demonstrating the consistency of OLS (with examples breaking assumptions), 3d visual of multiple regression, and ANOVA (w/ type 1 error). We'd be grateful for feedback before fall! 🙏
@tbyker1
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@bernybelvedere
I feel so bad for this guy. I mean, it's a zany video, but with the whole context, it's hardly objectionable. For example, his speech about random grades was to make fun of local Calvinists who scoffed at taking measures to avoid Covid since infection would be God's will.
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Teaching economic history to economics majors at a small liberal arts college.
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@MiddleSeaHist
Friend eating a sandwich before a history professor's lecture. Professor points at the sign saying "No eating, drinking, or smoking." My friend, flustered, apologizes. Professor says, "No, in this class.." ::lights up a cigarette:: ..."we do all three." True Pitt story.
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Encouraging my students to bring questions for a review session.
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My paper in the Journal of Economic History with Tamar Matiashvili (
@TamriMT
, now doing her PhD at Stanford) on part-year operation of Imperial Russian factories has just been posted online. 🎉
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It blows my mind how many people told me to my face how the very good job I got in a very nice place was their nightmare outcome. I can't imagine living your life this way! Open-minded candidates capture tons of surplus. Prejudice leaves money on the table.
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My department
@middecon
is hiring for two AP-level positions this year (1 AF, 1 Macro). My colleagues are brilliant scholars, passionate teachers, and kind people. Our students are a blast to work with. Vermont is a great place to live. Join us!
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Does anyone else cope with anxiety of the tenure track by conjuring fantastical backup plans? Mine include 1) opening an outdoor spa / hot tub park that serves alcohol, 2) opening a Waffle House copycat restaurant that uses local VT ingredients, and 3) raising heritage lard hogs.
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First day of in-person teaching! (Most of my teaching this semester is online, but I have one in-person discussion section). The students were just awesome.
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@danutzamorar
It often seems to be like the only acceptable hobby in economics academia is exercise/sports. Watching how people react when they find out I play bluegrass music has been...informative.
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Just trying to live up to your expectations of how a liberal arts college professor spends a Friday afternoon. (Also bluegrass outside is the greatest).
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@bernybelvedere
Somebody, probably a disgruntled student looking for a laugh, cut together the craziest parts out of context and got him suspended.
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My article with Steven Nafziger on Imperial Russian corporate finance is now in First View at the Financial History Review! This is the first paper we have published that takes advantage of the panel dimension of our new 1899-1914 balance sheets database.
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A year ago Middlebury went remote, and yesterday I taught all my classes in-person for the first time since spring 2019, before my sabbatical. It was awesome and a little weird/awkward! We're all going to have to learn how to do school again.
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Okay it's not *all* bad being stuck in Tucson an extra day. Plus more time with economic historians = the best ❤️
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Middlebury just pulled the plug on in-person classes for tomorrow, the last day of the semester.
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This weekend
@Middlebury
is hosting ~20 economists and political scientists from liberal arts colleges for an AALAC meeting on the Economic History of States and Societies, with a keynote from
@saumjha
. Thanks to co-conspirators
@KaraDimitruk
,
@CihanArtunc
, and Steve Nafziger!
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Many thanks to
@dedrosky
for this very thoughtful essay on Imperial Russia's economic trajectory. I’ve been chewing on this for a while. Imagining Russia’s counterfactual growth path without the Rev is one of the grandest questions in social science (NBD).
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@HamburgerJack
@RegionalUSFood
If I remember correctly the salt changes the boiling temperature of the water, which gives the finished potatoes a nice texture. What I know for sure is, they're great.
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Just thought you'd all like to know that my dog is still really cute.
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This color (I swear) photograph I took today at Champlainside Farm in Bridport, VT gives you a pretty good sense of the spring color palette around here.
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Fun and gorgeous ("relaxed" pace)
@the_econ5k
with
@middecon
colleagues this morning at the
@Middlebury
outdoor track!
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My other genius backup plan was to start an all-weather outdoor Russian-style sauna/banya/hot tub business in Middlebury that served smoked fish and alcohol. Million dollar idea, amirite?
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We are super proud of this work and hope that our simulations can be useful in your stats and econometrics classes!
Tanya Byker (
@tbyker1
) & Amanda Gregg (
@AmandaGregg711
) of
@middecon
, along with Dylan Mortimer of
@Braves
, have developed multiple interactive web-based simulations to help you teach various econometrics & statistics concepts.
Learn more:
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Folks who study economic history and historical political economy at AALAC member institutions: submit to our workshop at Middlebury College March 10-12. Keynote by Saumitra Jha! Proposals are due November 18. The call for papers:
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APPLY, MY CHILDREN! If you don't, I will.
Looking for a pre-doc that allows you to pursue your passion for economic history and deep dish pizza? Northwestern’s Center for Economic History is the job for you!
@econ_ra
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Lost my car keys somewhere between my front door and kitchen table. Searched for an hour. Found them in the garbage. How's your day going?
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When I studied abroad in Mongolia in college, I met a Berkeley econ Phd economist based there who told me about how pretty his window looked iced over in the winter. He then got a text message, and told me, elatedly, "I just sold some sheep!" Still my backup plan.
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Inform letter writers that you intend to apply to LACs and that many LACs care about teaching AND research. We make this face 😬 when letter-writers overshoot the mark and say "XYZ doesn't care much about research and is thus a good LAC candidate."
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Anybody else out there absolutely love reading the acknowledgements in dissertations? ❤️
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Total thrill to examine microfilms today at
@uvmvermont
with
@Tim_Hua_
. It's been too long since I squinted at dark and blurry handwritten numbers.
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Since you guys still like dogs, here is the annual video of my greyhound being an utter maniac in the snow.
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@ShengwuLi
@NickArnosti
@economeager
Played in a bluegrass band with a luthier, a stone mason, and 2 contractors.
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The semester starts tomorrow! I've got a new senior seminar on deck, "History of the Firm," which I think is going to be rad. Here's a sample from the syllabus.
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Thanks very much to Claude Diebolt and Michael Haupert for inviting me to write this piece for the 3rd Edition of the Handbook of Cliometrics. I've called it: "Cliometrics, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union."
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I used to be an interesting person. Now I take pictures of random trees.
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I'm so fucked.
Loyal employees are targeted by managers for exploitation. The targeting of these loyal workers is driven by the assumption that loyal works are readily willing to make personal sacrifices.
The same thing happens in reverse: workers who agree (versus refuse) to be exploited in
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2023 wasn't my favorite. Sometimes the best you can hope for is a positive second derivative. Here's to 2024 getting worse more slowly!
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It's been a few years since I wrote this LAC job market thread, but I still agree with what I wrote. I'll add: I increasingly appreciate the simplicity and purity of my job. I teach, and I write, and it's nice to have both appreciated.
Some brief, unsolicited, humbly-offered advice from an assistant professor for those applying for jobs at liberal arts colleges like Middlebury. This is a good gig. And we'd love to hire you! Here are some ways to make yours an easier case, from my limited experience.
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Re-upping some advice for econ job market candidates on applying to LACs. Good luck out there everybody!!
Some brief, unsolicited, humbly-offered advice from an assistant professor for those applying for jobs at liberal arts colleges like Middlebury. This is a good gig. And we'd love to hire you! Here are some ways to make yours an easier case, from my limited experience.
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Yesterday, it was 8 degrees F when I let the dog out in the morning. Today, it was 18 F. I actually said aloud, "Ah, it's so much nicer now that it's warmer."
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Husband and I have recently had to visit urgent care for minor illnesses. Reading the chart notes is fun. Apparently I am a "nontoxic female" and he is "well nourished and well developed."
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Overheard at the conference: "Alexander Gerschenkron wouldn't know a cow if it bit him in the ass."
Doesn’t this look cool? The 2023 Summer Workshop in the Economic History and Historical Political Economy of Eurasia, this coming Friday and Saturday in Paris.
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Looking forward to catching up with my economic history buddies at the EHA Meeting this weekend! I'll be presenting my paper with my Midd colleague Tanya Byker on Imperial Russian female partners and corporate founders.
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There is a special place in heaven for those referees who not only point out what is wrong but suggest a way to fix it. I know, not always possible, and not the referee's responsibility to know the solution, but it sure is nice.
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The cover letter matters. Make a connection to the particular department, not just liberal arts colleges in general, if at all possible. Make sure you respond to any prompts in the JOE ad.
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@kaitmsims
Especially because the stated charge of the CAREER grant program is to support building "a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research." In economics they seem to use the CAREER program to reward folks already at the top of the hierarchy.
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Nothing cleans my house faster than a stack of papers needing to be graded.
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Excited to announce a new version of my econometrics simulations project with my Midd colleague Tanya Byker! The simulations: . Instructor materials and other info: .
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If I could give three pieces of advice to all undergraduate students, they would be: go to class, go to office hours, and clinch every freebie point you are offered.
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Be yourself on the flyout. We're looking for a colleague. Enjoy the meeting with students. But please, for the love of God, don't be *mean* to the students or seem obviously bored by them! (Yes, that's happened, and that's an instant deal-breaker.)
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One of the weirder Middlebury traditions is singing the lyric "There is nothing like Gamaliel Painter's cane" right after we distribute 500 replicas of it.
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We are so grateful to
@EconTeaching
for this honor! We had a really great experience publishing with this outlet. Send them your teaching papers!
Congratulations
@tbyker1
,
@AmandaGregg711
, and Dylan for an amazing contribution to the economics education community.
We look forward to honoring your work at
#JETSET23
this summer in Cincinnati!
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Morning dog walk (please excuse the deluge of snow/dog content).
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"Transition from agricultural to industrial economy in history in the style of Diego Rivera"
#dalle
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Last class of a semester teaching two seminars in-person. What a relief. We made it. ❤️❤️❤️ for my Middlebury students.
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Teach your students how to read. They think they know how to read, but they don't. I didn't learn until grad school (Naomi Lamoreaux taught us). This is a great thread on efficient reading.
I had some students from technical disciplines in my office hours. They were struggling to get through all the readings on the syllabus. I get it. This is a graduate IR seminar averaging 300pp a week. Here is what I told them: 🧵
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@dee_bee_h
Yeah it's true if you replace the word "tragic" with "extremely successful" and "miserably fails the course" with "predictably earns the highest grade in the course."
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I lost my car key at the Middlebury dog park last summer. This was posted on Front Porch Forum today (VT's wholesome version of Nextdoor). This town amazes me.
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My spoiled dog, who is allowed on all the furniture and has four (!) beds just in this house prefers the cold, dirty concrete floor of my garage.
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Vermont has its own version of NextDoor called Front Porch Forum, and sometimes it is priceless. From this morning's edition.
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I am having the best day (stops at Music Emporium and H Mart)
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Middlebury fall term registration is happening now. After a year on sabbatical, I can't tell you what a relief it is to see the names of familiar students on the roster. Good to have friends in the room, even if virtual.
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Even if everything were "normal" this year, student expectations have irrevocably ratcheted.
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I understand why it's happening, but I do wish that various scandals took up a little less of the air on here. I used to love EconTwitter as a place to celebrate each other's work. Most of us are just trying our best after all. Hoping we can get back to the good stuff eventually.
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It's annual nonsense trainings time! Once again I shout into the void my desire to read a transcript and take a hard test rather than wait through long-winded, slow, obvious videos on why I shouldn't click on bad links or hit students with my car on Old Chapel Road.
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