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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.
October 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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.
I don’t know if anyone actually sees this given that I never post but here it goes. If you see Iranians these days be a bit gentler with them. We are going through something horrific. Our nation is in the hand of a few individuals who don’t seem to care about anything other than having a useless
June 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I don’t know if anyone actually sees this given that I never post but here it goes. If you see Iranians these days be a bit gentler with them. We are going through something horrific. Our nation is in the hand of a few individuals who don’t seem to care about anything other than having a useless
Question for political scientists/economists: obviously trump has in numerous times tried and or successfully violated the role of law. But this is not limited to him. Obama infamously killed a U.S. citizen without due process. So my question is whether these violations are ever quantified.
May 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Question for political scientists/economists: obviously trump has in numerous times tried and or successfully violated the role of law. But this is not limited to him. Obama infamously killed a U.S. citizen without due process. So my question is whether these violations are ever quantified.
Hard to argue with Matthias here. Big loss for us and good for Europe.
30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house.
We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.
We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.
April 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hard to argue with Matthias here. Big loss for us and good for Europe.
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Just so it’s clear, the government wanted to oversee hiring and employment at a *private* institution in order to implement a purity test. When the institution refused, they took away money for life saving research (cancer etc).
That’s some fascist shit.
That’s some fascist shit.
April 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Just so it’s clear, the government wanted to oversee hiring and employment at a *private* institution in order to implement a purity test. When the institution refused, they took away money for life saving research (cancer etc).
That’s some fascist shit.
That’s some fascist shit.
Happy Norwooz!
Tomorrow is the winter solstice and official start of spring ! Beyond its symbolic significance, it’s a time of cleaning. Let’s hope for this particular cleaning sometime soon (and those in the west who wish to act accordingly)!
Tomorrow is the winter solstice and official start of spring ! Beyond its symbolic significance, it’s a time of cleaning. Let’s hope for this particular cleaning sometime soon (and those in the west who wish to act accordingly)!
March 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Happy Norwooz!
Tomorrow is the winter solstice and official start of spring ! Beyond its symbolic significance, it’s a time of cleaning. Let’s hope for this particular cleaning sometime soon (and those in the west who wish to act accordingly)!
Tomorrow is the winter solstice and official start of spring ! Beyond its symbolic significance, it’s a time of cleaning. Let’s hope for this particular cleaning sometime soon (and those in the west who wish to act accordingly)!
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Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political
March 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political
The thunderstorm of terrible U.S. government actions continues. Free speech is only applied selectively! I read the coverage of several outlets and it seems like the only crime here is supporting Hamas.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US authorities arrest Palestinian student protester at Columbia University, students say
The detention of graduate student Mahmoud Khalil appears to be one of the first efforts by Donald Trump to fulfill his promise to seek the deportation of some foreign students involved in the pro-Palestinian protest movement.
www.reuters.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The thunderstorm of terrible U.S. government actions continues. Free speech is only applied selectively! I read the coverage of several outlets and it seems like the only crime here is supporting Hamas.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
To call myself angry these days whenever I open my browser and I am not reading a math theorem is an understatement! I find it extremely difficult to see anything positive. And I was able to in '17 despite being on the receiving end of the muslim ban!
March 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
To call myself angry these days whenever I open my browser and I am not reading a math theorem is an understatement! I find it extremely difficult to see anything positive. And I was able to in '17 despite being on the receiving end of the muslim ban!
I have to admit that while people are quite shocked by the WH events today, to me this is simply just a sign of what this administration is doing. In fact, perhaps it is quite good that Zelensky decided fight back against the bogus claims. To me, we crossed a line when we voted for Russia in the UN!
February 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I have to admit that while people are quite shocked by the WH events today, to me this is simply just a sign of what this administration is doing. In fact, perhaps it is quite good that Zelensky decided fight back against the bogus claims. To me, we crossed a line when we voted for Russia in the UN!
Is what we are saying a failure of the equity discourse of the 2010's? Perhaps. As @adamprz.bsky.social put it elegantly, the equity discourse of the 2010's seem to only have been around symbols as opposed to meaningful changes in policies or cultural changes. ESG investing became synonym with ...
I feel like every lefty person should print this on a t-shirt and never take that t-shirt off. Social media reinforces some of the worst impulses for activists. A post that gets a lot of likes from like-minded people may be exactly the opposite of what you should be doing.
Persuading others means using language that is comfortable to the people you are trying to reach, rather than the phrases that might resonate with a progressive in-group but are jarring or confusing to outsiders.
February 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Is what we are saying a failure of the equity discourse of the 2010's? Perhaps. As @adamprz.bsky.social put it elegantly, the equity discourse of the 2010's seem to only have been around symbols as opposed to meaningful changes in policies or cultural changes. ESG investing became synonym with ...
What is happening is quite painful to watch with the latest bowing of King Trump to Putin being the worst part of it all. For me this is the first time that I am feeling like we are collectively failing ourselves into oblivion. ...
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
February 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
What is happening is quite painful to watch with the latest bowing of King Trump to Putin being the worst part of it all. For me this is the first time that I am feeling like we are collectively failing ourselves into oblivion. ...
How can a world where writing is done by machines allow us to keep track of our human experience? It’s a world with “Homo sapiens with full-sized aortic pumps”!
Look, I think it’s a huge problem that the people who are in charge of building the tech that is increasingly governing our lives—and developing policy—have absolutely no idea what makes life meaningful, joyful, or worth living. Or how learning and human growth actually takes place. 1/n
January 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
How can a world where writing is done by machines allow us to keep track of our human experience? It’s a world with “Homo sapiens with full-sized aortic pumps”!
My wonderful friend and coauthor. Congrats!
Maryam Farboodi accepting the Elaine Bennett Research Prize at the CSWEP lunch #ASSA2025
January 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
My wonderful friend and coauthor. Congrats!
All in a single issue!!!
That special edition of ReStud had 3-4 papers that ended up as part of Nobel prizes and had been dormant for over a decade, including Mirrlees' result the on approximation of the first-best and failure of first-order approach and Bengt's career concerns model.
January 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
All in a single issue!!!
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0/ A holiday economic theory reading list. Some of my favorite pieces on theory that can be read with minimal sweat, but with the maximal intellectual reward. In no particular order:
December 29, 2024 at 11:25 AM
0/ A holiday economic theory reading list. Some of my favorite pieces on theory that can be read with minimal sweat, but with the maximal intellectual reward. In no particular order:
Not having a formal education of microeconomic theory means that I didn’t know Ramsey did this before Savage!!!!
Not bad. The one-paragraph biography of Frank Ramsey is 🔥🔥🔥
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
Why Probability Probably Doesn’t Exist (but It’s Useful to Act like It Does)
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability—an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is
www.scientificamerican.com
December 26, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Not having a formal education of microeconomic theory means that I didn’t know Ramsey did this before Savage!!!!
If you are interested in engagement and attention specially on places like this (!!) or you just like theory come to our session at the ASSA on Attention and Engagement on Platforms #EconSky
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...,
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...,
American Economic Association
www.aeaweb.org
December 16, 2024 at 3:01 PM
If you are interested in engagement and attention specially on places like this (!!) or you just like theory come to our session at the ASSA on Attention and Engagement on Platforms #EconSky
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...,
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...,
Since I’ve heard about it, I’ve only used generative AI a handful of time. Do I count as a Luddite?
December 14, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Since I’ve heard about it, I’ve only used generative AI a handful of time. Do I count as a Luddite?
It’s a pretty low bar ! They just have to not use chemical weapons on Syrians !!
I have to say that the events in Syria are giving me cause for cautious, very cautious optimism. Time will tell if the new management is better than the old management, but for now at least, one can hope.
December 9, 2024 at 12:17 AM
It’s a pretty low bar ! They just have to not use chemical weapons on Syrians !!
Another forgotten aspect of living in dictatorship is the constant heart break. As another one of my family members is collecting things and moving out of Iran since they don’t want their daughters to grow up in that country, more and more heart ache follows. ..
December 9, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Another forgotten aspect of living in dictatorship is the constant heart break. As another one of my family members is collecting things and moving out of Iran since they don’t want their daughters to grow up in that country, more and more heart ache follows. ..
There is so much uncertainty about Syria right now. But, what’s important is to remember that dictators don’t last; especially such brutal ones like the Assad family. That’s worth celebrating whatever Jolani does! I hope people in the west understand that!
December 8, 2024 at 8:35 PM
There is so much uncertainty about Syria right now. But, what’s important is to remember that dictators don’t last; especially such brutal ones like the Assad family. That’s worth celebrating whatever Jolani does! I hope people in the west understand that!
Am I the only economist not being affected by overleaf??!
December 3, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Am I the only economist not being affected by overleaf??!
I think I agree with @shengwuli.bsky.social here. I also found Indira Puri’s job market paper and her work with @drewfudenberg.bsky.social also very interesting and useful steps in figuring out the distinctions.
I like Ryan’s paper and (obviously) I think complexity matters for behavior.
But I think Florian’s updating too much from one experiment. I want to see replications and results from ‘nearby’ designs before saying the lottery anomalies have nothing to do with risk.
But I think Florian’s updating too much from one experiment. I want to see replications and results from ‘nearby’ designs before saying the lottery anomalies have nothing to do with risk.
Some of the most important lottery anomalies from the behavioral risk literature (e.g., probability weighting and loss aversion) actually have nothing to do with risk.
They also arise in perfectly deterministic settings.
Lead article in the latest AER issue:
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
November 28, 2024 at 5:16 PM
I think I agree with @shengwuli.bsky.social here. I also found Indira Puri’s job market paper and her work with @drewfudenberg.bsky.social also very interesting and useful steps in figuring out the distinctions.
My favorite kind of behavioral economics. Take a simple deviation from the standard properties of learning and explore all of its strategic implications.
I am on the job market, which seems like a great opportunity for my first post on here! My job market paper is about failures of contingent thinking -- the act of reasoning about hypothetical events. 1/
November 20, 2024 at 5:12 PM
My favorite kind of behavioral economics. Take a simple deviation from the standard properties of learning and explore all of its strategic implications.