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Posts by Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana)

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95% of Americans Are Falling into Intellectual Barbarism. Here's Why It Won't Lead to the Dark Ages American education outside of STEM is dying, at the elementary, high school, and college levels.

"95% of Americans Are Falling into Intellectual Barbarism. Here's Why It Won't Lead to the Dark Ages"
These thoughts comfort me. Maybe you too-- or maybe you don't think China taking over culture is a plus.
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My 7th grade math girls came up with the best method for filling out your tax returns:

Have your husband do it.

Assigning them the Schedule D capital gainsworksheet probably has made them more eager to get married early.

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What Obedience do Catholics Owe to the Pope? On April 10, Pope Leo published the tweet above saying that no Christian can favor war, and war never brings freedom.

How should Catholics react to a Pope's statements? See ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/what-obedi... Comments and corrections welcomed.

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Easy Ways to Improve a University: Information Is Power, Especially Now in the Era of Crowdsourcing How can we fix the universities?

Today's substack: Easy and quick ways to reform universities: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/easy-ways-...

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What to Eat with Your Easter Dinner -- Ideas Easter is coming up.

Consume ideas at your Christmas dinner too: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/eat-ideas-...

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What to Eat with Your Easter Dinner -- Ideas Easter is coming up.

Read some Scripture too: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/eat-ideas-...

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What to Eat with Your Easter Dinner -- Ideas Easter is coming up.

Read some Scripture too: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/eat-ideas-...

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What to Eat with Your Easter Dinner -- Ideas Easter is coming up.

Read some Scripture too: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/eat-ideas-...

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What to Eat with Your Easter Dinner -- Ideas Easter is coming up.

Read some Scripture too: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/eat-ideas-...

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What to Eat with Your Easter Dinner -- Ideas Easter is coming up.

Read some Scripture too: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/eat-ideas-...

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What to Eat with Your Easter Dinner -- Ideas Easter is coming up.

Read some Scripture too: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/eat-ideas-...

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What Should You Eat with Your Easter Dinner? -- Ideas Easter is coming up.

Here's something to add to your plan: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/eat-ideas-...

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Pi Day Friday, Pi Part I (Part II has equations, Python code, and Dali circles)

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Help make Bluesky more intellectual. Repost this fun math tweet.

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IMAGINE. (Ultimate Mix, 2020) - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band (with the Flux Fiddlers) HD
IMAGINE. (Ultimate Mix, 2020) - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band (with the Flux Fiddlers) HD YouTube video by johnlennon

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I'm not a lawyer, but I've trie da corporte law questiton where AI gotit wrog, but gave the expected wrong answer, a reasonablel oe--- but also the citations where I could find nd rthe real answer. A genuine lawyerly skill is, "Ask an expert's casual opinion, but then check to see if he's right".

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I am a transactional lawyer and I've had 3 clients this week tell me they ran documents through Chat GPT and it gave them legal advice that contradicated my advice. In all 3 cases the Chat GPT advice was wildly wrong but sounded convincing to my clients

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At Indiana University, I'm Emeritus but not "Emeritus" When old professors step down, they are called “emeritus professors”. I retired from Indiana University in 2021, but I’m not emeritus.

Speaking for 1st amendment: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/at-indiana...

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An alternative to price controls is being able to sue firms that raise their prices. Even more extreme, firms that didn't raise them, but have high prices.

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Poor logic there. The ship heard him, and changed their plans instantly and started sailing?

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I didn't read carefully. But remember :Twitter, or Bluesky, is really just conversation, tentative, not reseach.

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At Indiana University, I'm Emeritus but not "Emeritus" When old professors step down, they are called “emeritus professors”. I retired from Indiana University in 2021, but I’m not emeritus.

Al, of potential interest: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/at-indiana...

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I hope they win. Does a sort of Chevrn still hold here?

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At Indiana University, I'm Emeritus but not "Emeritus" When old professors step down, they are called “emeritus professors”. I retired from Indiana University in 2021, but I’m not emeritus.

My latest substack is about "emeritus" status. ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/at-indiana...

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Where have all the comments gone?
For decades, the American Economic Review regularly published formal comments — papers that replicate, reassess, or challenge earlier AER articles.
In our latest blog post, we show: they’ve nearly disappeared.

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Up from Slavery and Down with D.E.I. Booker T.

ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/up-from-sl... My Substack on what Booker T Washington can teach us about affirmative action (which still continues)

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Up from Slavery and Down with D.E.I. Booker T.

ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/up-from-sl... My Substack on what Booker T Washington can teach us about affirmative action (which still continues)

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Up from Slavery and Down with D.E.I. Booker T.

ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/up-from-sl... My Substack on what Booker T Washington can teach us about affirmative action (which still continues)

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Up from Slavery and Down with D.E.I. Booker T.

ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/up-from-sl... My Substack on what Booker T Washington can teach us about affirmative action (which still continues)

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Up from Slavery and Down with D.E.I. Booker T.

ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/up-from-sl... My Substack on what Booker T Washington can teach us about affirmative action (which still continues)

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Up from Slavery and Down with D.E.I. Booker T.

ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/up-from-sl... My Substack on what Booker T Washington can teach us about affirmative action (which still continues)

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