Trump: A lot of men like to watch her. Sophie Cunningham is a beautiful young woman. You probably wouldn't mind her on the team not to help you with points, but to help you with attendance.

My cab drive to Ithaca was a Bush-Obama-Romney-Trump-Biden-Trump voter. He said that instead of persecuting innocent fraternity brothers, universities should focus on limiting the number of Indian-Americans they admit.

Econ is greatly positioned for the AI wave because the obsession with publishing a few killer papers in top journals leads economists to use AI for quality enhancement rather than to increase quantity. This is exactly what you want!

No comment on Acemoglu as I don't know the full situation here. But this type of conflict is quite common as there are large power imbalances in the economics profession. I once had a serious authorship dispute with a senior scholar. Basically they wanted to preserve a type of discretion over authorship credit that I did not consider to be scholarly appropriate. I pushed back, drew a hard line, and basically told them I wouldn’t work on the paper unless the authorship terms were resolved. After I refused to budge for many days, they ultimately gave me the written confirmation I had sought when drawing my professional boundaries. My view has always been that junior scholars should absolutely push back, esp. when things concern scholarly conduct. It's warm and fuzzy to maintain bridges but not when it comes to compromising your own intellectual values. Moreover, the amount of influence a senior has over your career is generally very limited (something you realize as you progress in the profession).