Miles Kimball

They routinely ask some of life’s deepest questions: Who are you? What do you care about? What are your goals in life? What do you struggle with? What do you love and hate? But these are not psychiatrists or spiritual advisers; they’re marketers probing consumers to figure out why we buy. Whether it’s sleek sports cars, laundry detergents, or cellphones, mapping the views and yearnings of potential buyers helps these specialists construct ad campaigns and brand identities. Though people...

I was planning to do something more extensive, like, doing research and talking to people, but I didn't. So this is based on my experience doing well at, and graduating from the low end of the top 50, getting a job I like at a non-PhD regional U, and doing several searches there.

I announced Ruchir Agarwal’s and my new IMF Working Paper in “Ruchir Agarwal and Miles Kimball—Enabling Deep Negative Rates to Fight Recessions: A Guide.” We are both delighted to see Reza Moghadam flag it in a Financial Times op-ed: “The ECB must make negative interest rate policy effective.”Below, I quote the key passage from Reza’s op-ed,...

My #1 advice to new economists is to get on twitter and plug into the #EconTwitter community. This document is a guide on how to do that. It’s a bit geared towards academics, since that’s what I know best, but #EconTwitter is a lot more than academics and I’ve tried to write so it’s useful to people outside academia too. What’s #EconTwitter?  Literally? Twitter is a website that lets users broadcast 280 characters of text to other users. These are call tweets, and they can also include...

Andreas Michalsen has a new book: The Nature Cure: A Doctor’s Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine. Link to the Amazon page for The Nature Cure His August 1, 2019...

Under loanable funds, trusting savers save, wise bankers intermediate, ie they invest those savings wisely. This is the bullshit we are drowning in. Banks have created new credit money ex nihilo and loaned same to asset flippers. Blame them. Fix that.

Who is the rebel? The Empire or the Rebellion? John Locke says it is the Empire. Image source. In Sections 223-227 of Chapter XIX, “Of the Dissolution of Government” of his 2d Treatise on Government: Of Civil Government, John Locke is answering the objection that his doctrine “lays a ferment for frequent rebellion.”...

Sociology Professor Emeritus James E. Gruber passed away June 26, but his influence on society from nearly 50 years of equity research and advocacy remains. Locally, Gruber successfully advocated for paid parental leave on UM-Dearborn’s campus in the early 1990s. Statewide, he served as an expert court witness from local hearings all the way to the Michigan Supreme Court. Nationally, his research was cited in a 1993 case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, and he worked on court causes on...

By Sara Roncero-Menendez2013-11-15 12:03:53 UTC Innovators and businesspeople alike are sculpting the world in incredible ways, and as a result, they've become celebrities. Steve Jobs, Marissa Mayer, Jony Ive and many others have rocked the business and tech worlds with their ideas and designs. Still, unlike the celebrities of Hollywood, the media doesn't always report on these public figures. And since we don't hear their names repeated over and over again, finding their correct...

This is the sixth part of a multi-part series, My Journey from Free Market Ideologue to Strong Towns Advocate.There’s been a recurring strain of feedback to this series that is best represented by this comment on the last column:I’m still not seeing where the indictment of the free market is, or where more intervention by the government or more government spending is going to be the solution.It’s interesting to me because the idea of My Journey from Free Market Ideologue...