Wonderful passage from @epopppp.bsky.social new book "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" detailing 3 ways someone's values may conflict with conventional econ approaches to public policy analysis (Berman calls it the 'economic style'). 1/5

A lot of fun to read, this from @bhgreeley.bsky.social (if you're not an economist).
www.ft.com/content/1e25...

Economics when every bit of common sense has been erased.

The list of stakeholders consulted for the Draghi report is out. It lists four pages of “trade and business associations”, “professional consultancies” and “companies and groups” and only *1* single trade union.

Glad to see this piece on the New Popular Front from Piketty and Cagé. While almost all the attention has been on the gains by the right, the success of a unified left with an ambitious program seems like just as an important story from the French elections. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wer braucht schon Netflix oder das Dschungelcamp? Die fortdauernden Eskapaden bei den und um die Wirtschaftsweisen sind Daily Soap genug…

(Und glaubt mir, ich weiß wovon ich rede, war ca 4 Jahre lang Teil dieser Telenovela 😉)

#LKW #VerbrennerAus

Live footage of Germany’s first small modular reactor (SMR)

I'll join my mainstream colleagues in admiration for the late Robert Solow. One thing I particularly admire is that he wanted nothing to do with the modern macroeconomic theory that took literally (and then "microfounded") his thought experiments about economic growth. www.jstor.org/stable/27648...

Aktuelles Schuldenbremse Meme für Feinschmecker

Die in deutschen Kohlekraftwerken erzeugte Strommenge sank im 3. Quartal 2023 um fast die Hälfte (47,3 Prozent) im Vergleich zum Vorjahreszeitraum. Gründe dafür waren nach Aussage des Statistischen Bundesamts eine konjunkturbedingt schwächere Stromnachfrage und Energieimporte aus dem Ausland.

China’s carbon emissions set for structural decline from next year. Emissions by world’s most polluting country could peak this year after surge in clean energy investments.
by Jillian Ambrose @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Men only want one thing for Christmas and it's disgusting:

One of the best and most thought-provoking political podcasts I've listenened to so far: what does the last decade of failed mass protest teach us about the limits of horizontalism and social media mobilization on the radical left? spotify.link/h0pUK5CoODb

heute gelernt, dass claudia goldin neben ihrer mega forschung auf ihrer harvard Seite über ihren extrem süßen golden retriever pika bloggt, und zwar seit 2012!
ich bin extrem neidisch auf diesen hund...

scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/pages...

While waiting for Monday, my annual reminder that, among the #NobelPrize winners in #Economics, we can count 9 men called Robert and 2 women. #EconSky 📈📉

für alle neulinge, die sich fragen, ob BlueSky elon-sicher ist:

text empfehlung von @theintercept.com, die bereits versucht haben die antwort zu finden

tl,dr: Ja (zumindest in naher Zukunft)

theintercept.com/2023/06/01/b...

Hi, who is here from German #Econtwitter? Please answer and retweet!