Georg Weizsäcker

@georgweizsaecker.bsky.social

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Microeconomist, Behavioral Economist, Author of "Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication"

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Georg Heinrich von Weizsäcker is a German economist and currently the Professor for Microeconomic Theory and Applications at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research interests include microeconomics, experimental economics, financial decision making, game theory and decision theory. In 2017, Weizsäcker's contributions to a better understanding of expectations formation and decisions under uncertainty were awarded the Gossen Prize. .. more

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 2h

Only very few of the main 🇪🇺 leaders seem to be distracted, luckily

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 5h

🇬🇧 ❤️ 🇪🇺
it's obvious

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Joanna Bryson, Caroline Krafft , and 2 more Diane Coyle, Joanna Bryson, Caroline Krafft, Mirco Tonin, Georg Weizsäcker

Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 6h

Great pre-doc opportunities at @econ.uzh.ch in Zurich for aspiring PhD candidates from low- & middle income countries or with a refugee/asylum seeker background.

Predoctoral Program Global Talent Common Application: www.facultyhiring.oec.uzh.ch/auth/Apply/0... Please share widely in your networks!

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CRC Rationality & Competition @rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 8h

How labor market resilience can fall short despite new skill demands: Our analysis shows that robot automation systematically increases training for new skills in service sectors but also speeds up the retirement of manufacturing workers.

Training or Retiring? How Labor Markets Adjust to Trade and Technology Shocks

Bertermann, Dauth, Suedekum & Woessmann: "Training or Retiring? How Labor Markets Adjust to Trade and Technology Shocks" CRC Discussion Paper No. 551

190researchblog.substack.com

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 12h

On how to help

Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · 10d

Our staff's 2025 recommendations for individual donors, fresh off the press: coefficientgiving.org/research/su...

Suggestions for Individual Donors from Coefficient Giving Staff – 2025 | Coefficient Giving

The 2025 edition of our annual tradition: a list of giving opportunities suggested by Coefficient Giving program staff.

coefficientgiving.org

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 12h

Sehr gute Spendenmöglichkeit, danke

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 1d

"their cause -- freedom, democracy, sovereignty -- is our cause"

👏🏻

www.ctvnews.ca/world/russia...

Canada to provide $2.5 billion in economic aid for Ukraine

Prime Minister Mark Carney condemned new Russian air attacks and announced additional economic assistance for Ukraine as he and the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stood side-by-side.

www.ctvnews.ca

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 2d

It is also noteworthy that 🇪🇺, rather than national institutions, carries many key responses to geopolitical challenges.

(Security strategy, competition policy, trade.)

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 3d

Rettung in real time

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 3d

Ja, aber Sternschnuppenwünsche retten uns glücklicherweise auch

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 4d

Impressive

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 4d

Defeating smallpox, ozone layer depletion, HIV/AIDS and hunger - humankind *is* good at solving problems collectively.

Gaining control of climate change, via renewables, is next. Noteworthy that 🇨🇳 and 🇪🇺 take the driver‘s seat.

Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · 8d

The science breakthrough of 2025 is Solar Energy, not because it is new but because of how successful its deployment has been. This year renewable energy surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Hopeful sign for what’s to come.
www.science.org/content/arti...

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 4d

The new administration cuts research
www.instagram.com/p/DHHN21Iy1C...

The New Yorker Cartoons on Instagram: "A cartoon by Paul Noth (@paulnoth). #NewYorkerCartoons"

128K likes, 1,181 comments - newyorkercartoons on March 12, 2025: "A cartoon by Paul Noth (@paulnoth). #NewYorkerCartoons".

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Reposted by Daryl Adair, Georg Weizsäcker

António Costa @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu · 5d

The EU condemns the U.S. travel restrictions against European citizens and officials.

Such measures are unacceptable between allies, partners, and friends.

The EU stands firm in its defense of freedom of expression, fair digital rules, and its regulatory sovereignty.

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 5d

A threat to America

www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/usa...

USA sanktionieren Führung von deutscher Organisation HateAid

Die Amerikaner kritisieren »Ideologen in Europa«, die US-Plattformen zensieren würden. Nun verhängen sie Sanktionen gegen einen EU-Kommissar, britische NGO-Vertreter und zwei deutsche Aktivistinnen ge...

www.spiegel.de

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 5d

🇪🇺

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 6d

Danke

Reposted by Georg Weizsäcker, Rüdiger Bachmann

Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · 6d

while he was known for broad and deep work on many topics, i, along with other behavioral economists, am especially thankful for "Psychological Expected Utility Theory and Anticipatory Feelings" www.jstor.org/stable/2696443 let me also mention a nice short method piece www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 6d

… but every year, on the highest holidays, …

:)

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 6d

A very good choice

Science Magazine @science.org · 11d

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 6d

One or two new Postdoc positions with @nataliafabra.bsky.social in an ERC project on energy transition

CEMFI @cemfi.es · 6d

CEMFI opens new Research Positions
Deadlines starting Jan 20, 2026
www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...

Reposted by Laura Hospido, Georg Weizsäcker

CEMFI @cemfi.es · 6d

CEMFI opens new Research Positions
Deadlines starting Jan 20, 2026
www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 6d

Another shot in his own country‘s foot

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Nathan Nunn, Christian E. Weller , and 3 more Richard S.J. Tol, Nathan Nunn, Christian E. Weller, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Georg Weizsäcker, Dietmar Fehr

City St George’s Economics @cityeconomics.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Job alert

We’re hiring 5 permanent faculty positions at Assistant Professor level:

• 3 x Open field
• Health Economics
• IO

Come work in a large, research-intensive department!

⏰ Applications reviewed on a rolling basis (deadline 18 Jan 2026)

#econjobs

econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 7d

Good question. 👇🏼

They find that the „green“ wage premium in Norway is larger for the low-skilled than for the high-skilled, and on average lower than „brown“ (fossile) wage premia.

LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 7d

As carbon-intensive industries are replaced by greener ones, what will happen to workers’ wages? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

Are green jobs better paid? - LSE Business Review

While "green" job creation can help cushion income losses as high-emission sectors shrink, it is unlikely to fully offset the wage advantages of "brown" jobs.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 7d

As carbon-intensive industries are replaced by greener ones, what will happen to workers’ wages? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

Are green jobs better paid? - LSE Business Review

While "green" job creation can help cushion income losses as high-emission sectors shrink, it is unlikely to fully offset the wage advantages of "brown" jobs.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 7d

Economic theory is alive and kicking, paper by paper

CRC Rationality & Competition @rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 7d

How costly data production can thwart price discrimination profits: We show that socially optimal market segmentation forces the seller into "indecisive segments", ensuring zero profit gain and showing that the private incentive to produce information is inefficient.

The Costly Path to Personalized Pricing: Why Private Data Production Is Wasteful

Lefez: "The Production of Information to Price Discriminate" CRC Discussion Paper No. 535

190researchblog.substack.com

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CRC Rationality & Competition @rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 7d

The Costly Path to Personalized Pricing: Why Private Data Production Is Wasteful

Lefez: "The Production of Information to Price Discriminate" CRC Discussion Paper No. 535

190researchblog.substack.com

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 7d

Informative poll data on the expectations and views of 🇺🇦 citizens, conducted Nov 26 to Dec 13 by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology

kiis.com.ua?lang=eng&cat...

Press releases and reports - Opinions and views of Ukrainians on issues of war and peace, trust in Western partners, and the internal situation: December 2025

kiis.com.ua

Reposted by Jill A. Jacobson, Georg Weizsäcker, Clark Gray , and 1 more Jill A. Jacobson, Georg Weizsäcker, Clark Gray, David Darmofal

Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 7d

McGill is hiring scholars from outside Canada! The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) Program is designed to attract world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. Review of applications begins 1/16/26. www.mcgill.ca/research/res...

Only candidates who are internationally based (both working and residing outside of Canada) at the time of the time of the first Impact+ Program intake application deadline are eligible to apply.
Impact+ candidates must have a recent track record of research accomplishments and significant interest in making new contributions to Canada in the strategic research priority areas.
Successful Impact+ candidates will be appointed to a tenure-track position at the rank of Full Professor, or as an Associate Professor with a promotion to Full Professor within two years of starting their appointment in the academic unit(s) that best fits their area of academic interest and expertise.

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