Joshua Gans

@joshgans.bsky.social

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Professor at University of Toronto

Joshua Gans holds the Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Until 2011, he was an economics professor at Melbourne Business School in Australia. His research focuses on competition policy and intellectual property protection. He is the author of several textbooks and policy books, as well as numerous articles in economics journals. He operates two blogs: one on economic policy, and another on economics and parenting. .. more

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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently I read a total of 15 books this year. So my book trade deficit is 13.

Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 1d

Potty Parity. It turns out it would be fairer and more efficient to convert a few men's restrooms into unisex ones than change them all. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Potty Parity | Management Science

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 2d

The death of Brigitte Bardot necessitated the update of this marvelous chart. Only three people mentioned in Billy Joel's banger "We Didn't Start The Fire" are still alive. Source: buff.ly/cWkphRB

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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 6d

Where? In someone's bathroom? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Justice Dept. Says It Has Found Over a Million More Epstein Documents, Delaying Release Process

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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 7d

My paper "Equilibrium Conditions for Catch-22 Situations" appears in this issue. Here are some slides for those interested. joshuagans.com/objects/uplo...

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jMechInstDesign @jmechinstdesign.bsky.social · 7d

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