Alessandra Basso
@alessandrabasso.bsky.social
Postdoc @ LSE Philosophy | Working on philosophy of economics, philosophy of measurement, economic inequality
Very interesting keynote by Muhammad Ali Khalidi on demarcation between natural and social kinds. At ENPOSS 2025 picturesque setting, Ca’ Foscari, Venice. #philsci
September 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Very interesting keynote by Muhammad Ali Khalidi on demarcation between natural and social kinds. At ENPOSS 2025 picturesque setting, Ca’ Foscari, Venice. #philsci
New article out! Honored to have worked on this with @annaalexandrova.bsky.social
A privilege to co-author with the brilliant @alessandrabasso.bsky.social whose mastery of economics of inequality and its philosophy is unparalleled. Our general point: indicators always have more than one ideal to serve, so will have to prioritise and hence sacrifice #philsci #econsky #measurement
Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality
We examine considerations that enter into design and evaluation of measures in social science, categorizing them into four drivers: epistemic, ethical…
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September 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New article out! Honored to have worked on this with @annaalexandrova.bsky.social
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Registered and looking forward to sharing a session on inequality and value-laden social science with @markfabian.bsky.social @alessandrabasso.bsky.social and Moritz Horl. (Speaking of inequality, I am thankful to have an institution to reimburse the very high registration fee). Who else is going?
PPE Society: London 2025 - The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society
We are pleased to share that, in addition to the PPE Society’s Annual Meetings held each year in New Orleans, the international PPE Society will…
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April 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Registered and looking forward to sharing a session on inequality and value-laden social science with @markfabian.bsky.social @alessandrabasso.bsky.social and Moritz Horl. (Speaking of inequality, I am thankful to have an institution to reimburse the very high registration fee). Who else is going?
Angus Deaton on economists and philosophers discussing about inequality and justice, in Cambridge, 50 years ago
‘Economics in America’ #philsci
‘Economics in America’ #philsci
March 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Angus Deaton on economists and philosophers discussing about inequality and justice, in Cambridge, 50 years ago
‘Economics in America’ #philsci
‘Economics in America’ #philsci
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I found Craig Callender’s piece as the PSA President in this latest newsletter really moving. Very funny at the start and serious at the end
Philosophy of Science Association
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March 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I found Craig Callender’s piece as the PSA President in this latest newsletter really moving. Very funny at the start and serious at the end
I’m preparing a lecture on social prediction with AI and couldn’t agree more with this. I’ll be using Douglas' excellent ‘Reintroducing Prediction to Explanation.’ Now curious to hear what others are working on in this space. #philsci
"Explanation, Prediction, and Understanding in Computational Social Science." Next Wed, in the HSSH Brown Bag (@helsinki.fi) seminar, Jaakko Kuorikoski and I will argue that #philsci work on prediction and explanation could be interesting for #compsocsci #css www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-... +
Brown Bag Seminar | Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities | University of Helsinki
Brown Bag Seminar meetings every Wednesday.
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February 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I’m preparing a lecture on social prediction with AI and couldn’t agree more with this. I’ll be using Douglas' excellent ‘Reintroducing Prediction to Explanation.’ Now curious to hear what others are working on in this space. #philsci
Can’t wait to read this!
“Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy?
Coyle explains why economic statistics matter. … Only with a new approach to measurement will we be able to achieve the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.”
#Philsci
“Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy?
Coyle explains why economic statistics matter. … Only with a new approach to measurement will we be able to achieve the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.”
#Philsci
This is exciting - look what just arrived (pre-orders help!):
February 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Can’t wait to read this!
“Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy?
Coyle explains why economic statistics matter. … Only with a new approach to measurement will we be able to achieve the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.”
#Philsci
“Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy?
Coyle explains why economic statistics matter. … Only with a new approach to measurement will we be able to achieve the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.”
#Philsci
Production isn't just a matter of market coordination - financial institutions like banks and stock markets regulate it via credit and monetary policy. Mason argues we should insert public criteria into private financing, democratizing their regulating functions.
I just gave a talk on "Democratizing Finance" at an online workshop organized by the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning. You can find the text of my comments here. jwmason.org/slackwire/de...
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February 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Production isn't just a matter of market coordination - financial institutions like banks and stock markets regulate it via credit and monetary policy. Mason argues we should insert public criteria into private financing, democratizing their regulating functions.
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More #evidence on how #Poverty destroys people's #health and #lives... We could make the world a better place for everyone, if we wanted... #MedSky 🧪 #PoliSky #EconSky #sociology
Lifetime Socioeconomic Status, Cognitive Decline, and Brain Characteristics
This cohort study examines associations of socioeconomic status across the lifespan with cognitive decline and brain characteristics in Black and White individuals in Chicago, Illinois.
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February 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Evidence from a progressive #tax reform in #Argentina shows that the reform had significant effects on tax compliance and that the effects depend on how households perceive the broader tax system.
N Ajzenman, G Cruces, R Perez-Truglia, D Tortarolo, G Vazquez-Bare
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#EconSky
N Ajzenman, G Cruces, R Perez-Truglia, D Tortarolo, G Vazquez-Bare
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#EconSky
February 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Evidence from a progressive #tax reform in #Argentina shows that the reform had significant effects on tax compliance and that the effects depend on how households perceive the broader tax system.
N Ajzenman, G Cruces, R Perez-Truglia, D Tortarolo, G Vazquez-Bare
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
N Ajzenman, G Cruces, R Perez-Truglia, D Tortarolo, G Vazquez-Bare
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
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I’m reading this on diffusion and it’s quite a useful way to think about public sector digital work.
You can think about internet-era methods as an innovation (for example, the idea of organizing work into outcome-based product teams). 1/n
You can think about internet-era methods as an innovation (for example, the idea of organizing work into outcome-based product teams). 1/n
November 20, 2024 at 6:43 PM
I’m reading this on diffusion and it’s quite a useful way to think about public sector digital work.
You can think about internet-era methods as an innovation (for example, the idea of organizing work into outcome-based product teams). 1/n
You can think about internet-era methods as an innovation (for example, the idea of organizing work into outcome-based product teams). 1/n
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Paper and symposium proposals are now being accepted for the 2024 Inaugural Conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement at UC Berkeley, August 5–6, 2024. Submit by April 1st! #philsci #histsci #PsychSciSky 🧪 measurementsociety.org/conference/
Conference – The Society for the Study of Measurement
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March 14, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Paper and symposium proposals are now being accepted for the 2024 Inaugural Conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement at UC Berkeley, August 5–6, 2024. Submit by April 1st! #philsci #histsci #PsychSciSky 🧪 measurementsociety.org/conference/
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🗓TODAY! 6.3.2024, 15:00 (EET)
Dani Rodrik: "Industrial Policies: The Old and the New"
ℹ️🔗 reses-argumenta.fi?p=1049
(⌚️🇬🇧🇵🇹: 13h 🇳🇱🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇸🇸🇪: 14h 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇬🇷: 15h🇹🇷: 16h)
#econsky @drodrik.bsky.social
Dani Rodrik: "Industrial Policies: The Old and the New"
ℹ️🔗 reses-argumenta.fi?p=1049
(⌚️🇬🇧🇵🇹: 13h 🇳🇱🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇸🇸🇪: 14h 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇬🇷: 15h🇹🇷: 16h)
#econsky @drodrik.bsky.social
March 6, 2024 at 7:25 AM
🗓TODAY! 6.3.2024, 15:00 (EET)
Dani Rodrik: "Industrial Policies: The Old and the New"
ℹ️🔗 reses-argumenta.fi?p=1049
(⌚️🇬🇧🇵🇹: 13h 🇳🇱🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇸🇸🇪: 14h 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇬🇷: 15h🇹🇷: 16h)
#econsky @drodrik.bsky.social
Dani Rodrik: "Industrial Policies: The Old and the New"
ℹ️🔗 reses-argumenta.fi?p=1049
(⌚️🇬🇧🇵🇹: 13h 🇳🇱🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇸🇸🇪: 14h 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇬🇷: 15h🇹🇷: 16h)
#econsky @drodrik.bsky.social
UK is more unequal than centralEU countries not because UK rich are richer, but bc the mid and bottom of the distribution are poorer. If benefits keep shrinking while return on investment stay high, ineq surges. Thwaites on Ending Stagnation for how to fix this (spoiler, not by tax) #ineq #philsci
March 5, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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New paper: Any probability aggregation rule (method for merging individual probability judgments, e.g. in a committee or expert panel, into coherent collective ones) can satisfy at most two of (1) consensus preservation, (2) non-dictatorship, and (3) non-manipulability (immunity to strategy voting).
Franz Dietrich & Christian List, The impossibility of non-manipulable probability aggregation - PhilPapers
A probability aggregation rule assigns to each profile of probability functions across a group of individuals (representing their individual probability assignments to some propositions) a collective ...
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February 16, 2024 at 11:00 AM
New paper: Any probability aggregation rule (method for merging individual probability judgments, e.g. in a committee or expert panel, into coherent collective ones) can satisfy at most two of (1) consensus preservation, (2) non-dictatorship, and (3) non-manipulability (immunity to strategy voting).
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In the next Perspectives on Science seminar on 12.2., Maria Jimenez-Buedo (UNED) will give a talk entitled “Explanation and generality in Analytical Sociology." Joint work w/ Saúl Pérez-González (Valencia). More details at tint-helsinki.fi #philsci
February 7, 2024 at 1:28 PM
In the next Perspectives on Science seminar on 12.2., Maria Jimenez-Buedo (UNED) will give a talk entitled “Explanation and generality in Analytical Sociology." Joint work w/ Saúl Pérez-González (Valencia). More details at tint-helsinki.fi #philsci
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We must ask the important questions: What are we hoping to learn from these replications? Is a replication the best design to achieve what we want to learn? Is this experiment replication-ready? We discuss these points here.
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21475/
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21475/
January 27, 2024 at 4:35 PM
We must ask the important questions: What are we hoping to learn from these replications? Is a replication the best design to achieve what we want to learn? Is this experiment replication-ready? We discuss these points here.
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21475/
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21475/
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#philsci #histsci
A substantial revision to “Scientific Progress” was published today by Ilkka Niiniluoto. Very interesting review.
A substantial revision to “Scientific Progress” was published today by Ilkka Niiniluoto. Very interesting review.
Scientific Progress (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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January 23, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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Expected early March! Science and the Public, in the Elements in Philosophy of Science series. Scientific understanding, scientific trust, the Vienna Circle, and strong claims about what science owes society... what's not to like?
www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky #philsci
www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky #philsci
January 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Expected early March! Science and the Public, in the Elements in Philosophy of Science series. Scientific understanding, scientific trust, the Vienna Circle, and strong claims about what science owes society... what's not to like?
www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky #philsci
www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky #philsci
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Looking forward to reading this. Winsberg and Harvard are such a great team on the subject of value judgments in models used to justify action. #philsci #scipol
Scientific Models and Decision Making
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Scientific Models and Decision Making
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January 20, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Official publication day of Avner de-Shalit and my City of Equals.
Please check your money/sense ratio before ordering, though as it’s also available free, as a legal open access download.
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Please check your money/sense ratio before ordering, though as it’s also available free, as a legal open access download.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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December 28, 2023 at 7:40 AM
Official publication day of Avner de-Shalit and my City of Equals.
Please check your money/sense ratio before ordering, though as it’s also available free, as a legal open access download.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Please check your money/sense ratio before ordering, though as it’s also available free, as a legal open access download.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
[The Economist 1973] In Egalitaria, there is no inequality of income. Population is stable, everyone has the same wage, same savings, same returns. Inheritance isn't allowed. Yet, the wealthiest 10% own 74% of wealth. Why?
#PhilSci Thx to Jerry Goodenough for finding this gem.
#PhilSci Thx to Jerry Goodenough for finding this gem.
December 15, 2023 at 4:32 PM
[The Economist 1973] In Egalitaria, there is no inequality of income. Population is stable, everyone has the same wage, same savings, same returns. Inheritance isn't allowed. Yet, the wealthiest 10% own 74% of wealth. Why?
#PhilSci Thx to Jerry Goodenough for finding this gem.
#PhilSci Thx to Jerry Goodenough for finding this gem.
Enjoyed reading this article by J Morton. It points to an overlooked form of inequality that might be difficult to track down: even if resources were fairly distributed, access to them might not be, offsetting the benefits of redistribution and public spending doi.org/10.1111/japp... #philsci
December 13, 2023 at 6:30 PM
Enjoyed reading this article by J Morton. It points to an overlooked form of inequality that might be difficult to track down: even if resources were fairly distributed, access to them might not be, offsetting the benefits of redistribution and public spending doi.org/10.1111/japp... #philsci
Spent the day at Horizon info-workshop yesterday. Lots of excitement for UK signing the association last Monday! Kudos to ROO hard work figuring out remaining open questions
December 8, 2023 at 11:16 AM
Spent the day at Horizon info-workshop yesterday. Lots of excitement for UK signing the association last Monday! Kudos to ROO hard work figuring out remaining open questions