<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Economist as Columnist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Economics and etc.]]></description><link>https://masihmirjafari.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aGxV!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa52e6e3-9b5a-4927-a54d-0c289f85e915_1208x1208.png</url><title>Economist as Columnist</title><link>https://masihmirjafari.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:52:05 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://masihmirjafari.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Masih Mirjafari]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[masihmirjafari@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[masihmirjafari@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Masih Mirjafari]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Masih Mirjafari]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[masihmirjafari@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[masihmirjafari@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Masih Mirjafari]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Let's Start this]]></title><description><![CDATA[My first Post]]></description><link>https://masihmirjafari.substack.com/p/lets-start-this</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://masihmirjafari.substack.com/p/lets-start-this</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Masih Mirjafari]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:10:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aGxV!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa52e6e3-9b5a-4927-a54d-0c289f85e915_1208x1208.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most influential papers I&#8217;ve read as an economics student is &#8220;The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer&#8221; by Mankiw. Another one is &#8220;The Economist as Plumber&#8221; by Duflo. I guess economists can&#8217;t be just economists. That might explain &#8220;physics envy&#8221; too. So, I named this Substack publication Economist as Columnist because I think that&#8217;s who I am.</p><p>I&#8217;m going to write about economics, politics and anything related to that. I&#8217;ll mostly focus on Iran because that&#8217;s where my knowledge lies today but life changes so the topics.</p><p>One of my main goals for starting this is to show a more precise picture of Iran&#8217;s economy and society to non-Iranians. Another goal is for myself to go through all my questions about Iran and also improve my writing skills in my non-native language, and I&#8217;ll have very strict anti-LLM policy for myself in the writing stage (but not research). So, I&#8217;m sorry for any dictation or grammar mistake that occurs.</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://masihmirjafari.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://masihmirjafari.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming soon]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is Economist as Columnist.]]></description><link>https://masihmirjafari.substack.com/p/coming-soon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://masihmirjafari.substack.com/p/coming-soon</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Masih Mirjafari]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:54:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aGxV!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa52e6e3-9b5a-4927-a54d-0c289f85e915_1208x1208.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is Economist as Columnist.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://masihmirjafari.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://masihmirjafari.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>