"Tech companies also have grown stingier, and their need for high-level economists — once seemingly insatiable — has waned." I have known about issues in tech sector hiring for over a year, why did we expect it to be any different for economists?
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"But by the 2023 academic year, the market was wobbly again — about 20 percent fewer positions advertised on the main American Economic Association jobs board — as tech companies and universities shifted into austerity mode." Exactly, so this is not really new on the tech company front
jul 29, 2025, 2:38 pm • 49 0 • view
"...the finalists for an assistant economics professor position in the university’s public policy school were already assistant professors or postdoctoral fellows at other schools." So econ is just catching up to the rest of academia.
jul 29, 2025, 2:41 pm • 86 6 • view
I desperately wish we could have a conversation about how the issues economists are facing now were perfected on the humanities and ethnic studies years ago. Being the golden child field with a conveyor belt to prestige and affluence will not protect you when authoritarians come knocking.
jul 29, 2025, 2:48 pm • 202 44 • view
So, ya know, join a union or find ways to work collectively with your peers to push back. Be cool earning less and advocating for adjuncts in other fields to have full-time work.
jul 29, 2025, 2:53 pm • 115 13 • view
We must see that our lives, our struggles and successes, are bound up in each other. What does collective action look like if you stop being optimistic your discipline's market will improve and instead think about academia as a whole?
jul 29, 2025, 3:07 pm • 113 26 • view
Academic models of individual success undermine our habits of solidarity thinking. It’s so hard to get some people to see the big picture.
jul 29, 2025, 3:27 pm • 20 0 • view
Why can I only like and repost this once. I wish I could *LIKE INTENSIFIES*
jul 29, 2025, 3:24 pm • 6 0 • view
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jul 29, 2025, 3:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Wait, this wasn’t already the case in Econ??
jul 29, 2025, 2:47 pm • 2 0 • view
It was but I think the argument is now it's widespread at even high-status departments?
jul 29, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Ah, I see. What will happen to the economists now that they are treated like the rest of us. Apart from getting twice our pay, I mean.
jul 29, 2025, 2:51 pm • 6 1 • view
That was theme of every additional paragraph. Now they're just like everyone else, but still with higher pay.
jul 29, 2025, 2:54 pm • 3 0 • view
Gosh, that must be terrible to have your field so undervalued
jul 29, 2025, 2:55 pm • 3 0 • view
This feels especially telling in a shouldn't-the-psychic-have-known-I-was-coming kind of sense.
jul 29, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 0 • view