Would LOVE to introduce my kids to causal thinking by way of a murder mystery. I’m sure you have voice already, but my mind goes straight to Jim Butcher’s style.
Thanks Scott. This is such a great piece. As a fellow academic, I would agree that writing a book really does scratch a different itch. I don't think any of my books have been quite as successful as yours, but the one thing that I've definitely found to be slightly frustrating is the whole marketing process.
As the first time I published with a major academic press, I thought that they'd do all of this for me, how wrong I was. As a result of that, I think going forward, I'm probably more likely to do self-publishing, but I worry that this might not be taken as seriously within academic circles.
I LOVE that your book is doing very well! Your thinking is vibrant and alive and different—economics needs this! I would gladly read all the other pitches you list. Keep your poet’s heart and econ mind vibing!!
This is so great--your book really turned out great and I'm looking forward to next one. If you went forward with the Princeton idea, maybe you could spend a year there teaching and using the archives, etc?
That’s a thought. I have talked a lot with all the key players, especially Orley. He’s been super open to it. But the problem I feel like is I spent all the creativity and excitement of it on doing it for the podcast, my lectures and the new book. The new book gets into it a lot, but sort of interwoven. I started thinking I wanted to do maybe a history of quant labor as that’s something I love, too.
I love the idea of an econometric version of Marshall Jevons. Perhaps Ken Elzinga would lend you the character name so that you can write about his son, who must learn about causal inference to keep up his father's work.
Ken, as well as Russ Roberts, are actually the two people I had in mind! I love Russ's The Invisible Heart a lot. And Ken's books are great as well, so that was channeling the two of them as inspiration. It's funny to imagine Jevons having a son and that I might borrow the series. I hadn't thought that.
The high school Jack Stone series sounds amazing; I'd love for you to pursue that!
I’m looking forward to the new book. I would also love the biography of the Nobel winners.
Would LOVE to introduce my kids to causal thinking by way of a murder mystery. I’m sure you have voice already, but my mind goes straight to Jim Butcher’s style.
Mixtape is the first book on my econometrics syllabus!
Thanks Scott. This is such a great piece. As a fellow academic, I would agree that writing a book really does scratch a different itch. I don't think any of my books have been quite as successful as yours, but the one thing that I've definitely found to be slightly frustrating is the whole marketing process.
As the first time I published with a major academic press, I thought that they'd do all of this for me, how wrong I was. As a result of that, I think going forward, I'm probably more likely to do self-publishing, but I worry that this might not be taken as seriously within academic circles.
Is this something you thought about as well?
I LOVE that your book is doing very well! Your thinking is vibrant and alive and different—economics needs this! I would gladly read all the other pitches you list. Keep your poet’s heart and econ mind vibing!!
Thank you Jill :).
Sorry that you became first book on so many syllabi. Looking forward to the remix.
This is so great--your book really turned out great and I'm looking forward to next one. If you went forward with the Princeton idea, maybe you could spend a year there teaching and using the archives, etc?
That’s a thought. I have talked a lot with all the key players, especially Orley. He’s been super open to it. But the problem I feel like is I spent all the creativity and excitement of it on doing it for the podcast, my lectures and the new book. The new book gets into it a lot, but sort of interwoven. I started thinking I wanted to do maybe a history of quant labor as that’s something I love, too.
I love the idea of an econometric version of Marshall Jevons. Perhaps Ken Elzinga would lend you the character name so that you can write about his son, who must learn about causal inference to keep up his father's work.
Ken, as well as Russ Roberts, are actually the two people I had in mind! I love Russ's The Invisible Heart a lot. And Ken's books are great as well, so that was channeling the two of them as inspiration. It's funny to imagine Jevons having a son and that I might borrow the series. I hadn't thought that.
There is a fun series of young adult books where the great-great-great-grandchildren of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet at school and solve crimes together on campus: https://www.amazon.com/Charlotte-Holmes-4-book-series/dp/B07GC7ZR5V