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Vandy Formal Search
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Posted 11 months ago #
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Just need one piece of info under education: C, G, or R?
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Sorry, what's C,G or R?
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C = Caltech
G = (Stanford) Graduate School of Business
R = RochesterStyled after the shorthand HYP (Harvard, Yale and Princeton) for the big 3 overall, CGR represents the big 3 for producing formal theorists.
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how about Northwestern Kellogg graduate? I know a guy who is also on the polisci job market.
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These 3 programs are not the only ones to produce formal theorists. Just as HYP are not the only schools that produce job market stars. Sure can't hurt to have a CGR degree though when applying for formal jobs.
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^^I believe I know who you are talking about from Kellogg, and I would certainly take a real close look at him if my department was hiring.
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I've heard that there is a favored candidate
Posted 11 months ago # -
Please tell me not ANOTHER Duke person!
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I don't know of many job market stars that come from Yale. Many more from Berkeley/Stanford/Harvard/Princeton.
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and FSU!
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yes, yes, and TAMU
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What's wrong with Duke?
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Vanderbilt has already hired 5 or 6 Duke PhDs in the last few years. Some of us non-Duke PhDs also want some jobs at Vanderbilt!
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I don't think people wanting a non-Duke hire at Vandy have anything to worry about in a Formal theory search.
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^agreed
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Yes, Duke isn't exactly known for formal. Vandy won't be hiring Duke this year, for a change.Posted 11 months ago # -
It's true that CRS aren't the only people to produce formal theorists. There are also econ departments.
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CRS+e then.
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No, it's CGR + some random noise. Aside from Ashworth, who among formal theorists under the age of 45 got their PhD from an econ program outside of C&G, since both are also economics programs?
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Callendar
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Are you joking?
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Caltech and GSB are billed as "social science" and "political economy" programs. In both cases what that means is that they are primarily staffed by and produce people who apply economic tools to political topics. So they are "economics programs," in that respect, but most of their graduates go to political science departments.
I think, also, that CGR should be the super-cool insider abbreviation, not CSR, since Stanford's political science department has not been a big source of formal theorists (as opposed to people who do some formal theory as part of their broader research portfolio).
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does anyone know if they have a favored candidate?
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Well, Caltech's Ph.D. program is ranked against economics programs, that is one reason to consider it as economics training. GSB's program is not included in either econ or polisci rankings, and as far as I know they have very little history of placing people in economics.
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