Professors don’t get paid for good essays, but students do! The truth about essay contests is that the number of submissions is usually absurdly low considering the size of the prizes and the opportunity cost of students’ time.
Your latest chance to strike it rich: The essay contest of the Association for Private Enterprise Education. Don’t be too scared – or too lazy – to throw the dice!
Nov 2 2006
Aaron S. Edlin and Pinar Karaca Mandic write, This study is an attempt to provide better estimates of the size (and sign) of the aggregate accident externality from driving. To begin, we choose a dependent variable, insurer costs, that is dollar-denominated and captures both accident frequency and severity; we also an...
Nov 2 2006
I elaborate on the idea of using man-made climate change to fight climate change, whether man-made or not. Climate engineering, or what I call Operation Sunscreen, would mean trying to alter the heat absorption properties of the atmosphere. The goal might be to reduce average temperatures by, say, 2 degrees centigrade...
Nov 1 2006
Professors don't get paid for good essays, but students do! The truth about essay contests is that the number of submissions is usually absurdly low considering the size of the prizes and the opportunity cost of students' time. Your latest chance to strike it rich: The essay contest of the Association for Private E...
READER COMMENTS
Omer K
Nov 2 2006 at 3:47am
Id rather hire someone to write the essay for me and give him a third of the prize money =P
Tim Worstall
Nov 2 2006 at 7:38am
What has annoyed me for years is that by the time I’d actually learned to write resonably I was too old for all of these competitions.
Tim Worstall
Nov 2 2006 at 7:45am
Of course, by the time I’d learnt to write reasonably I’d also forgotten how to spell. Sigh.
Genevieve
Nov 3 2006 at 10:37pm
The opportunity costs are even lower when one realizes that a particular topic allows one to recycle portions of a paper from another class, and that the paper can be recycled yet again for an Econ 415 class.
Thanks for the tip!
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