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Christopher Brunet
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Christopher Brunet writes Chris Brunet, a personal blog at chrisbrunet.com about economics and science. Since 2025, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “The collapse of the econ PhD job market”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Christopher Brunet's posts on academic economics: the economics PhD job market, Elsevier's citation cartel crackdown, and academic hiring. Commenters debate how far his views hold up.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
investigative journalism.
Most-linked posts?
- The collapse of the econ PhD job market2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-03
- RIP EJMR (2008-2026)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-16
What Hacker News says?
This turned out longer than I expected. TL:DR; I'm not sure what he is trying to do, but he gets some things right, some things wrong, and some things are not applicable. Points 1-2 seem to match what I am seeing as an Econ PhD student on the market and what I am hearing from others. Point 3 may be happening, but this assumes that AI is going to be doing this in a way capable of producing research AND that there is…
Comment linking /p/this-phd-student-at-brown-university
on “The collapse of the econ PhD job market”Submitted The collapse of the econ PhD job market as a story · 233 points
HN discussionI'd like to see a study about why the opinions of economists, who are still just human meat suits, are more important than anyone else's. Just kidding, I know they are not. Economists only succeeded while US government played along. Government has quit playing along. Did economists see it coming? No? Well what good are their predictions? Useless knowledge workers. A reality the labor market is highlighting: https://…
Comment linking /p/the-collapse-of-the-econ-phd-job
on “Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency”Submitted The $100M ETF Built on Research That Doesn't Replicate as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis has also been covered by Chris Brunet [0]. All I can say is academia hiring is a dumpster fire right now. [0]: https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/exclusive-chinese-american-pro...
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on “Only favors Indian-origin candidates: Chinese-American professor sues Texas univ”Submitted RIP EJMR (2008-2026) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAbout Chris, this 3.5 years old post made me wonder what he's all about. https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/this-princeton-economics-profe...
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on “Elsevier Shuts Down Its Finance Journal Citation Cartel”Submitted Elsevier Shuts Down Its Finance Journal Citation Cartel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA fun and interesting article! I must however, take the time to be the ever-sensitive snowflake and highlight a troubling trend in this person's other posts. He seems to have some anti-trans leanings[1], refusing to gender people correctly and all that (and certainly not pushing back against comments which declare "M to Fs are psychotic bullies who would kill all of us to maintain their sacred illusion". Not to impl…
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on “Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown”Submitted Michigan Insurance Giant Blames "AI" for Layoffs–But Evidence Points Overseas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think GP was referring to https://www.chrisbrunet.com/s/politics/archive?sort=new and https://www.theamericanconservative.com/author/christopher-b... I didn't immediately see a red flag that would make me discount all of their work. It's clear what the author's general opinions are. They're entitled to them of course.
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on “Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown”Submitted RIP EJMR (2008-2026) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown as a story · 1 points
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