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1. Duke's hiring boom in economics
2. New James Cameron science fiction movie in the works
3. Funny first names in Venezuela
4. Is the Hollywood studio model obsolete?
Posted by Tyler Cowen on January 9, 2007 at 03:01 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
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Is the "professor in the practice" the equivilant of a clinical professor,
that is, a professor who acutally shows up to teach undergrads?
Or something new?
Posted by: save_the_rustbelt at Jan 9, 2007 4:03:00 PM
There are many misinterpretations in the article about Venezuela.
In Maracaibo, were oil was first produced in a mass scale
, there is a tradition of funny names. Maracaibo, before oil , was a port , So with merchandise received books, and it isolation from the rest of Venezuela created strong bond with the well educated Colombian people.So many in Maracaibo, had names like Epaminondas, a Greek general, Aristides, another, Aspasia, Pericles mistress, Libia, Alexander mistress. Maracaibo also had the better research hospital of Latin-America, founded by a lawyer After an attempted and failed secession , the University was closed by the federal government. The tradition lost his initial intent and became a distorted one: in Maracaibo began to appear funny names. Someone was named by the drug the mother received at the birth moment.
In the 70s, with a tv penetration that was nearly 100% , the poor people and many middle class people began to call theirs children with Americans names , or a anyway tv names.
A curious fact is ignored in the article among the Ministry head of a socialist government that hate America you can find William Lara, Jesse Chacon , Erick Rodriguez.
A judge ally of the government is Nixon Moreno. Nixon have been a popular name in Venezuela for years even among native venezuelan you can find one. The ex president was assaulted by a mob in 1959 when he visited Venezuela because of the Eisenhower support for the dictator just thrown out, but his name is very popular.
You can find a pageant called jaqueline John Kennedy, yes a woman called John Kennedy. John is almost as popular in Venezula as in the USA
Posted by: jcm at Jan 9, 2007 9:57:15 PM
To "Save the Rustbelt": I don't think "Professor of the Practice" should be interpreted to mean a teacher who actually teaches. Duke has so many academic titles that it's hard to keep track of them. However I think "Professor of the Practice" is a reltaively senior/full professor (as opposed to for example Asscociate Professors and Assistant Professors). Just about all Duke professors do teach undergrads at least sometimes. I would say "Professors of the Practice" though do so marginally less often than some other professors.
BTW, the article doesn't really give the details on the econ department's changes, which are very dramatic and go far beyond how many professors, their specialties, ages, or approaches to econ. Generally I'm positive about the changes, but like them or not, the last 5 years have seen enormous changes for undergrads in eco There n at Duke.
I'm glad that one of the new hires specializes in econ. history. Duke has traditionally been the center of this subdiscipline. See the History of Political Economy Journal for example. I have been concerned that Duke was ddiminishing this area.
Posted by: Dukeecongrad at Jan 9, 2007 11:31:39 PM
Tyler, your ads make posting intelligible notes a pain in the behind.
Posted by: Dukeecongrad at Jan 9, 2007 11:32:56 PM
Dukeedongrad,
I think you mean history of economics, not economic history.
Yes, Duke has been known for that, and Kevin Hoover is strong
in that area. What is unfortunate as far as I am concerned is
that Duke seems to have eliminated allowing grad students to
actually get a degree in that sub-field anymore. They can
take history of economics, but must subordinate it and combine
it with some other more "regular" field, like labor economics,
or whatever. Bah.
And, of course, for other institutions to do this sort of
cluster hiring, well, they have to have the money and the
positions. Goody.
Posted by: Barkley Rosser at Jan 10, 2007 12:48:27 AM
Barkley Rosser:
I probably don't know what you mean by "have the positions," but I think part of the point of the article is that Duke doesn't have the positions; they're hiring well in advance of retirements.
Posted by: Douglas Knight at Jan 10, 2007 2:29:48 PM
The article reports the Duke econ dept is ranked #22. WhHich is to say, they're playing minor league ball. Does cluster hiring do anything to move Duke up in the rankings? I doubt it.
The real impact of Duke's move is that better depts may now have freed-up slots to make their own hiring moves.
We'll see how it plays out.
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