Ben Schneider
@benmschneider.bsky.social
Research on work, job quality, and technology. Economic history PhD from Oxford. 🗽 in 🇳🇴
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While #EconSky is talking about tariffs today, @anselmkuesters.bsky.social and I investigate another "t"-term that is controversial in economics: Technological Unemployment
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#futureofwork #econhist (1/n)
While #EconSky is talking about tariffs today, @anselmkuesters.bsky.social and I investigate another "t"-term that is controversial in economics: Technological Unemployment
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#futureofwork #econhist (1/n)
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English Catholics in 1678:
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
English Catholics in 1678:
“I got rich by being one of the worst people on earth, but somehow not breaking any laws.”
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“I got rich by being one of the worst people on earth, but somehow not breaking any laws.”
People will just say anything these days cc @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
People will just say anything these days cc @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social
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New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
A good day to travel from a current socialist hellhole ( 🇳🇴 ) to a future one ( 🗽).
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
A good day to travel from a current socialist hellhole ( 🇳🇴 ) to a future one ( 🗽).
Why do people make explicit references to history that they don’t understand? Quisling didn’t tell Norwegians to surrender in 1940, he tried to seize power during the invasion to make Norway a locally-ruled fascist state.
This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Why do people make explicit references to history that they don’t understand? Quisling didn’t tell Norwegians to surrender in 1940, he tried to seize power during the invasion to make Norway a locally-ruled fascist state.
Scandal hits the United States of America as “Uncle” Sam revealed not to be sibling of the country’s parents.
In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback over a story he told about his aunt being afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway after the September 11, 2001, attacks. https://cnn.it/432IAcr
October 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Scandal hits the United States of America as “Uncle” Sam revealed not to be sibling of the country’s parents.
Writing emails to “folks”:
The acceptable face of America
(It me)
The acceptable face of America
(It me)
October 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Writing emails to “folks”:
The acceptable face of America
(It me)
The acceptable face of America
(It me)
People who don’t stack their empty bins after airport security
a man in a military uniform is standing in a room with flags and says `` right to jail , right away '' .
ALT: a man in a military uniform is standing in a room with flags and says `` right to jail , right away '' .
media.tenor.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
People who don’t stack their empty bins after airport security
Én uke igjen!
Call for Papers:
4th Norwegian 🇳🇴 Winter Games ❄️ in Economic History
📍 NTNU Trondheim
📅 29 January 2026
📄 CfP Deadline: 19 October
Vi forventer noen berømte gjester fra Byåsen IL 👀
#econhist #EconSky #skystorians
4th Norwegian 🇳🇴 Winter Games ❄️ in Economic History
📍 NTNU Trondheim
📅 29 January 2026
📄 CfP Deadline: 19 October
Vi forventer noen berømte gjester fra Byåsen IL 👀
#econhist #EconSky #skystorians
October 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Én uke igjen!
Reading successful funding applications
October 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Reading successful funding applications
This is correct, but I think can be put more simply as: Trump thinks winning the 2024 election gave him the whole country (its institutions and its wealth) as his property.
The thing that distinguishes Trump’s approach to federalism from that of his predecessors is that he rejects the ontological premises of federalism itself, primarily the premise that states are sovereigns in any sense of that term. /1
October 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is correct, but I think can be put more simply as: Trump thinks winning the 2024 election gave him the whole country (its institutions and its wealth) as his property.
Great reporting except for the part about the 82nd Airborne “parachuting into” WWI. There was no parachute infantry in the First World War! Planes were way too small!
this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)
October 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Great reporting except for the part about the 82nd Airborne “parachuting into” WWI. There was no parachute infantry in the First World War! Planes were way too small!
@timharford.ft.com: “the conflict [between Israel and Iran] has been de-escalated—with a lot of bombing, which doesn’t usually win you a Peace Prize, unless your name is Henry Kissinger.”
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October 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
@timharford.ft.com: “the conflict [between Israel and Iran] has been de-escalated—with a lot of bombing, which doesn’t usually win you a Peace Prize, unless your name is Henry Kissinger.”
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There are no sources cited but this has more than 500 reposts.
Winemaking employed about 64,000 people in 2020.
In 1918, coal mining employed more than 750,000.
Winemaking employed about 64,000 people in 2020.
In 1918, coal mining employed more than 750,000.
The US wine industry today employs more people than coal did at its peak a century ago
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
September 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
There are no sources cited but this has more than 500 reposts.
Winemaking employed about 64,000 people in 2020.
In 1918, coal mining employed more than 750,000.
Winemaking employed about 64,000 people in 2020.
In 1918, coal mining employed more than 750,000.
The people (who are interviewed by the New York Times) want deflation!
September 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The people (who are interviewed by the New York Times) want deflation!
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A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America.
Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7
Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7
September 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America.
Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7
Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7
Leaving aside the vapidity of this piece, it does encapsulate how most people have no coherent view of the purpose of universities.
Britain’s zombie universities should put Schumpeter on the syllabus on.ft.com/46tIQC1 | opinion
Britain’s zombie universities should put Schumpeter on the syllabus
It’s time to borrow from the corporate crib sheets — and if all else fails, creative destruction is a force for good
on.ft.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Leaving aside the vapidity of this piece, it does encapsulate how most people have no coherent view of the purpose of universities.
Cricket is a normal sport where the schedule of an eight-team tournament (the men’s Asia Cup) is set up purely so that India can play Pakistan three times in seven matches. 🙃
September 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Cricket is a normal sport where the schedule of an eight-team tournament (the men’s Asia Cup) is set up purely so that India can play Pakistan three times in seven matches. 🙃
Once again, I am begging economists to think about job quality beyond wages.
Death threats are still scary if you make $500k!
Death threats are still scary if you make $500k!
House members should be paid $500k minimum. Senators at least $1 million. President should be $4 million.
Being an elected official in the United States is such a garbage job that only the worst people in the country want it. The best ones are gigantic ego maniacs, but the majority are just kinda average people who can't figure out how to gain notoriety doing anything else. It's a huge problem!
September 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Once again, I am begging economists to think about job quality beyond wages.
Death threats are still scary if you make $500k!
Death threats are still scary if you make $500k!
23% of Democrats want to limit Canadian students?? 🤯
NEW: Republicans who support limiting the number of students in the US from
China 67%
India 60%
Nigeria 59%
South Korea 54%
Canada 47%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
China 67%
India 60%
Nigeria 59%
South Korea 54%
Canada 47%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
September 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
23% of Democrats want to limit Canadian students?? 🤯
TIL the Norwegian word for “gums” is «tannkjøtt», literally “tooth meat” 🥴
September 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
TIL the Norwegian word for “gums” is «tannkjøtt», literally “tooth meat” 🥴
Surely there should have been some handicapping for the massive home track advantage of Vienna? Oslo finished 3rd using unfamiliar rolling stock!
The international tram driving championships are live on YouTube right now! www.youtube.com/embed/smp0vo...
One of the events is "tram curling" where the tram gives a little cart a shove and tries to get it to stop at the right point
One of the events is "tram curling" where the tram gives a little cart a shove and tries to get it to stop at the right point
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Surely there should have been some handicapping for the massive home track advantage of Vienna? Oslo finished 3rd using unfamiliar rolling stock!
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In other news, the attacks on Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook for her mortgage applications look even more suspicious (and fabricated) now. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
In other news, the attacks on Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook for her mortgage applications look even more suspicious (and fabricated) now. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...