surround yourself with bright ppl who will tolerate you oliver har, roger paul and bengt are same advisor 1. simplify - uncertainty in utility 2. asking question is painful - answering - reassure them it's painful, 3. journey - don't end up where you aim (rome, find - learn paul milgram; aiming for common agency, important thing is multi taking. - brave move) peter, daron, dummiest ppl in the room most of bengt paper are contrarian - answer is not what they think it is - energized trading no idea what it represented - how likely is it the whole idea being opaque (not ) value of information - something we thought was one way but the other way - stick to question (dont believe the answer) ## esther duflo student (1999) pioneer what works and oesn't in development - jpal 16mil ppl 2019 dedicated to mit (ddp program - all over the world masters to study economics, serving rethink undergraduate) dedicated to our institution you should not do math - they do less about your own research but influence it had on profession as a whole physics and chemistry are same with the work of other ppl, fundamental building up institution of instituion an sub parameterics ; not very interesting ideology - russia influence in the world seize this tool to make different driving force of work, learn a lot not to influence josh angrist and daron was esther's adviso?? 1. help ppl - do what they want to do more effectively (don't tell what to do) 2. create data ⭐️help other ppl to do the same work - movement to run thi sproject thousands of ppl thousand ppl not distributed uniformly (cambodia) ddep program - make available online class for more ppl policy maker, researcher obliterated work - make total of the number of project that to run better ; establish a ongoing without JPAL ⭐️have a vision ## abhijit economic theorist getting a job at mit, surround yourself with brillant student and peer (peter mentor), each of this ppl - ok to be wrong - important to be stubborn; don't give it up easily even if it's wrong first rct, slam dunk - increase the number of students for student - learning goes up, found nothnig - one of the five things - assumption was wrong - willing to go out on your limb, stick to your guns discover you're right about wrong reason luxury: holding on to your thought - no one is paying premise the world is complex - in terms of learning, pretending to hold on to that pretense - simple point - what the next thign might be ## josh 1998 josh and esther 's advisor - emipirccal - causal effect 2021 nobel applies answer - charter school it pays to be too (class size effect - contribute - gotten bigger over year; do)' not be dogmatic findings can share shouldn't try to win - enjoy economics disciplined work for public policy bob paron - cold calling (squared of josh angrist) - micro economics win some converts - convert to economics discipline ## daron 1993 12 mit institute professor dozens of area not why but for which thing economic growth - reconomy plicy can play - democratice - cohort affect (1990s) having good collegue generral vibe with my passion - didn't have a roadmap lucky - passionate about postdoc for six year - dent her enthusiasm - find sth like that - investment in technical learning all the tools and hard work interested in institution - daron was drawn to the isue all of economics about two years (read so mcuh), technical element, engaing with theory and data science is about information sharing - contribute to production bengt and thomas cun - normal science and paragigm shift - misses the point - nroal science is not doing what everyone eles is doing - you want to contribee to toehr ppl's thhinking scariest ten word - i'm from the goverment, i'm here to help - the most suprising ; pweres of had ni state and institution - incredible to think achieved that - revolution, uprising, open-minded - greatest selling point - every discipline has its ; block change - max plank - science progress as one funeral at a time even bengt (in every textbook - what was usual, but pppl embraced it) lots of resistance, once results came in, ppl embraced ppl to be able to choose economics - that could lead somewhere - --- tough like 6 ppl open-minded -> innovation