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Sascha O. Becker
@essobecker.bsky.social

Economist @MonashWarwick
Project Leader @RF_Berlin
BWV227
Editor @EJ_RES
Associate Editor @QJEHarvard
First gen high school grad
Classical music and jazz enthusiast

Economics 48%
Political science 30%
Pinned
Excited to have been elected as Fellow of the Econometric Society. Official Certificate Ceremony today at the World Congress in Seoul 🇰🇷 (handshake with Larry Samuelson) @econometric.bsky.social
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.com
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.

They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
Heroic bystander, Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim man who put his own life on the line, and saved so many Jews. True safety in solidarity in action

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QS ranking requests are going out. If you need reminding about how awesome Warwick is, have a look at this website: warwick.ac.uk/about/excell...
Excellence at the University of Warwick
Whether it’s teaching, research or collaboration, Warwick offers a vibrant, forward-looking environment where anything feels possible.
warwick.ac.uk
The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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AASLE is happy to announce that #AASLE2026 will be organised by @pku1898.bsky.social in Beijing, China 10-12 December 2026. More details will follow soon and the call for papers will be announced in April 2026; stay tuned! #EconSky

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This week we're very honored to have @essobecker.bsky.social from @warwickecon.bsky.social and @monashuniversity.bsky.social visiting us! 🤩 On Thursday, Sascha will give a seminar on "Colonialism Inc.: The Private Interests Behind Germany's Imperial Ambitions". Welcome to Växjö! www.sobecker.de
After the little Musk-Sikorski spat this, and Musk's statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let's ask ourselves simply:

HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?

In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?

Over the course of several Saturdays, I ran (alone) or walked (with family/colleagues) the full length of the a 78-mile (126 km) Oxford Canal, from Hawkesbury Junction (north of Coventry) to Oxford via Rugby and Banbury. Beautiful countryside ❤️

👉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_...

RFBerlin rocks 🎅🤶🦌🛷🧑‍🎄
Tonight we’re hosting the RFBerlin Holiday Party! 🎄✨
Looking forward to celebrating the end of a very successful year with our colleagues and friends.

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Tonight we’re hosting the RFBerlin Holiday Party! 🎄✨
Looking forward to celebrating the end of a very successful year with our colleagues and friends.

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4th Diversity & Human Capital Workshop, June 9-10, 2026!

Flagship event at the #Economics Department @uofebusiness.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk:

🎙️ Keynote Speakers:

Sascha Becker (@essobecker.bsky.social)
Cynthia Kinnan (@cynthiakinnan.bsky.social)
Helmut Rainer

🔗 sites.google.com/view/diversi...

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🚨 Call for Papers 🚨

The 14th Warwick Economics PhD conference will take place 25-27th of May 2026.

We welcome applications from every field in economics. We offer free accommodation and travel funding!

Keynotes by Debraj Ray and Mateusz Stalinski

The deadline is 31st January! Link in🧵

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TOMORROW (3 December) AYEW Development & Gender Workshop!

Join us at 9pm AEDT/ 10am GMT to listen to Xuchao Gao (SMU), Soumi Bose (BITS Pilani), Júlia Sbroglio Rizzotto (USP) & Balasurya Sivakumar (OsloMet)

Sign up for Zoom link: www.monash.edu/business/imp...

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See you in Uppsala 🇸🇪 🎉
Happy to announce a 4th edition of the Workshop in Economic History in Uppsala, with the great @essobecker.bsky.social as keynote! Workshop takes places on May 28-29, 2026, in Uppsala. Apply by January 31, 2026.

Here is the Cfp: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6xdmp...
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Happy to announce a 4th edition of the Workshop in Economic History in Uppsala, with the great @essobecker.bsky.social as keynote! Workshop takes places on May 28-29, 2026, in Uppsala. Apply by January 31, 2026.

Here is the Cfp: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6xdmp...
www.dropbox.com

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
"With 4.8 million UK-born citizens now living elsewhere, perhaps it’s about time to develop a strategy on emigration and the starting point needs to be better data."

John Mahon argues that we need a better understanding of people leaving the UK

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/who-is-emigrating-from-the-uk/
Who is emigrating from the UK? - UK in a changing Europe
John Mahon makes the case for having a better understanding of the British nationals leaving the UK. He argues that the cost to the state of British nationals leaving or returning to the UK varies, so it should develop a clearer strategy to deal with the impact of emigration.
ukandeu.ac.uk
Beginning in Summer 2026, I will be one of the co-editors of Journal of Economic History. I will be taking over from Bishnu Gupta, who has done a fantastic job the last four years.

Looking for papers asking big questions. Answers must be convincing, but methodology is secondary IMO

Keynote in Dresden 🇩🇪 tomorrow.
Christmas market from tower of Kreuzkirche ❤️

Seminar at Birmingham University.
Pleasure to see the great Eric Melander 🎉

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TOMORROW (26 November) AYEW Macro/International/Trade Workshop!

Join us at 9pm AEDT/ 10am GMT to listen to Gerard Camats Penella (UAB & BSE), Mohammad Zeqi Yasin (University of Glasgow) & Meng Yu Ngov (KCL)

Sign up for Zoom link: www.monash.edu/business/imp...
if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back…. @katemac.bsky.social

Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990
China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · Nov 21
#StandWithUkraine
Ukrainians truly need this right now — even if as a sign of solidarity. And constant, stubborn solidarity goes a long way.

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New survey on religion and gender with the amazing @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social & @chuncheekokecon.bsky.social 🎉
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!

Our research leader @essobecker.bsky.social, with
Jeanet Bentzen, & @chuncheekokecon.bsky.social
survey the links between gender and religion.

🧵->

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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!

Our research leader @essobecker.bsky.social, with
Jeanet Bentzen, & @chuncheekokecon.bsky.social
survey the links between gender and religion.

🧵->

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Ben Shieldaig.