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Noel Johnson

@ndjohnson.bsky.social

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Professor of Economics at GMU.
https://noeldjohnson.github.io

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P David Boll @pdavidboll.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 New Version 🚨

The new and extended version of our paper on dealing with spatial unit roots in regressions, now
*forthcoming at the Stata Journal* under a new title!

w/ @essobecker.bsky.social @jvoth.bsky.social

Relevant to anyone who uses spatial data !

Link and more information in🧵(1/n)

Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · 6d

I love random discoveries. I've been listening to this album a lot recently.

open.spotify.com/album/3pfs0b...

Bernard Hughes: Music for Mixed Voices

open.spotify.com

Reposted by Jacob T. Levy, Noel D. Johnson

Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 15d

I've been thinking a lot lately of a quote from Leo Strauss: A theoretical crisis does not necessarily lead to a practical crisis.

The Constitution has collapsed as a meaningful organizing framework for American politics, but like the Roman Senate meeting in 603AD, some things keep going.

Reposted by Noel D. Johnson, Evan Roberts

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 27d

Guy whose concern about the No Kings rally is that there’s a lot of evidence constitutional monarchies do a better job than republics of avoiding personalistic politics.

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 28d

"No way I am going to retire. Even if my students are retiring, not me." ❤️

Alexander Wulfers @alexanderwulfers.com · 28d

"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...

LIVE: Nobel Prize in economics winner Joel Mokyr speaks

YouTube video by Reuters

www.youtube.com

Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · 28d

Congrats to Joel Mokyr on the Nobel Prize. I'll take this opportunity highlight one of his less mentioned works: "Demand vs Supply in the Industrial Revolution". A great example of how to combine theory with history. tinyurl.com/yv8ed8mj

Dropbox

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 28d

Elated at Joel Mokyr's Nobel Prize! You can find numerous accounts -now multiplying by the minute- of his scholarly contributions. Today I want to celebrate the man and the mentor.

Joel Mokyr at the 2011 conference in his honour at Northwestern.

Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · 28d

The adds are for Colgate, Grinnell, and Bocconi in case you’re wondering.

Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · 28d

I just checked JOE and I count 3 adds for economic history positions (I’m not counting the “any fields”). There seems to be a bit of a gulf between what the Nobel committee is recognizing and what Econ departments think they should be doing.

Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 28d

That's like four economics awards in a row with a substantial economic-history component, right? That strikes me as a remarkable shift. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists...

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 28d

Mokyr's work could not have been done today in most economics departments, but the irony is that his work would not fit in history departments today, either. Methodologically he seems more 'history' than 'economics' to economists, but the content and reasoning are too 'economics' for most historians

Reposted by Mark D. White, Kris Inwood, Noel D. Johnson , and 2 more Mark D. White, Kris Inwood, Noel D. Johnson, Matthias Schmelzer, Thor Berger

Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 28d

That's like four economics awards in a row with a substantial economic-history component, right? That strikes me as a remarkable shift. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists...

Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · Oct 10

Thanks for the heads up "K9 advantix II large dog". For use on dogs only. Got it.

Reposted by Mark D. White, Johan P. Olsen, Kevin Carey , and 7 more Mark D. White, Johan P. Olsen, Kevin Carey, Lesley Bartlett, Robert B. Reich, José Antonio Noguera, Noel D. Johnson, Simon Lester, Klaus Oschema, David Darmofal

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · Oct 9

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Reposted by Nuno Palma, Noel D. Johnson

Patrick Fitzsimmons @patrubenfitz.bsky.social · Oct 6

Was thrilled to write this for @broadstreetblog.bsky.social (which I recommend for anyone interested in historical political economy)

www.broadstreet.blog/p/blood-and-...

Blood and Iron: Political Fragmentation in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

How new technology reshaped the political equilibrium of the early Iron Age through violence.

www.broadstreet.blog

Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · Oct 4

Science marches on. Also, I’m not eating this.

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Oct 3

Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants. Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it. They even partnered with Danish chefs to create three recipes using ant yogurt. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants

Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it.

arstechnica.com

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Daniel Bergstresser @dbergstresser.bsky.social · Oct 4

questions mount

Reposted by Nicholas A. Christakis, Catherine J. Frieman, Noel D. Johnson

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Oct 3

Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants

Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it.

arstechnica.com

Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · Oct 2

Pierre Bourdieu was on to something… #theinheritors

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Oct 2

I was better informed than a lot of grad students about a lot of the hidden curriculum, but this stuff was *totally* invisible to me, and it took me years to see it and understand how important it was.

Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Oct 2

• Children of PhD-educated parents are 28 times more likely to become professors than those whose parents only completed compulsory school.
• Children of professors are 11 times more likely to join the faculty than everyone else.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Oct 2

Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Oct 2

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio, Jan W. Mueller , and 8 more Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio, Jan W. Mueller, Linda J. Skitka, Fabián Muniesa, Jacob Montgomery, Robert Wolfe, Bessma Momani, Kate Starbird, Noel D. Johnson, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Guido Alfani @guidoalfani.bsky.social · Sep 26

The recording of the Tawney Lecture on "Economic Inequality and Social Mobility in Preindustrial Societies", which I had the honour to deliver in Glasgow last spring, is now online! Thanks
@echistsoc.bsky.social for inviting me.
ehs.org.uk/multimedia/t...

Tawney Lecture 2025: Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies - Economic History Society

ehs.org.uk

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Melissa Thomasson @mthomasson.bsky.social · Sep 26

It’s always great to see that the world supply of soy (or virtually any other commodity) is indeed perfectly elastic. Gotta say that this tariff brought in a heap of revenue. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0.

www.nytimes.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Sep 24

This is The Dumb Place.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Sep 23

Megyn Kelly has called on Etsy to burn the witches.

"You're playing with fire messing with this stuff. There are actually are demons in this world. Calling up the spirit world, in particular the devil's spirit world, can actually have real world consequences. It's not something to mess with!"

Screenshot of Megyn Kelly's Youtube channel

Video title: Megyn Kelly Reveals Erika Kirk Was Shaken By Jezebel's
Article About Placing a CURSE on Charlie Kirk

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · Sep 21

From a new paper by @mjdcurtis.bsky.social, David de la Croix, et al. The Little Divergence in 'academic human capital' (kind of publications index) btw northern & southern Europe started ca 1500. Northern Germany diverged from central & southern German areas after the Thirty Years' War.

Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 11

Working at the office today and somebody put the following out for free on the break room table. Nice try. I’ve been in this game long enough to know when some phd student in the experimental group is running a behavioral study.

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · Sep 11

I was going to tweet this last year but somehow I was impeded…

“When [economic] growth does, and does not, reduce poverty”

www.bii.co.uk/en/news-insi...

— A great literature review by a team including @paddycarter.bsky.social and @paulsegal.bsky.social

Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 9

When your little cousin’s new bed looks more attractive than your old one…

Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 26

Sometimes the Devil tempts you and you just have to force yourself to look away.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Aug 24

Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Garry Peterson, Charles West , and 4 more Diane Coyle, Garry Peterson, Charles West, Berk Özler, Caroline Fohlin, Noel D. Johnson, Ernst Langthaler

Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · Aug 20

There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease

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