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Brandon Chan
@brandonscchan.bsky.social
Maths & Econ @ Yale ‘26 | spatial, environmental, econ hist
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Growth can go hand in hand with degrowth in material use as economies shift toward quality and services, rising living standards and clean growth are possible, from Philippe Aghion, Timo Boppart, Michael Peters, Matthew Schwartzman, and Fabrizio Zilibotti https://www.nber.org/papers/w33634
June 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Me, an economist who wrote one of TIE papers, shaken to his core: how can I live with the fact that "going from the most left-wing authored estimate of the taxable top income elasticity to the most right-wing authored estimate decreases the optimal tax rate *checks notes* from 77% to 60%."
November 27, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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“We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income percentile yields more than $12 in revenue, while audits of below-median income taxpayers yield $5.”
November 19, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Very cool JMP by Yasmine Van der Straten: climate shocks can make housing more expensive, which particularly hits financially constrained households. This also makes it harder to adapt to climate change.

Things would be easier if we were renters.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 14, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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The unexpected upside of a cartel. Excellent!
Super cool that someone has actually estimated the environmental benefits of OPEC: about a trillion per decade!

www.nber.org/papers/w3311...
November 13, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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Super cool that someone has actually estimated the environmental benefits of OPEC: about a trillion per decade!

www.nber.org/papers/w3311...
November 13, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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OK, here's my first attempt at the kind of thread I used to do on the hellsite. At a guess, the first place we'll really see the economic impact of Trumpism will be from mass deportation — and it will be worse than many people, even macroeconomic modelers, imagine 1/
November 12, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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For Bluesky-Curious Econ Lovers, a Quick Start guide to plugging into the economics community here.

It aims to lower the costs & boost the benefits for folks to engage here.

If it seems useful, please share it here & especially on X.
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aaronsojourner.org/for-bluesky-...
For Bluesky-Curious Econ Lovers - Aaron Sojourner
This Quick Start guide aims to help econ lovers easily join Bluesky’s growing economics community. The Bluesky User FAQ covers generic basics, like how to start an account. This guide orients you to e...
aaronsojourner.org
September 11, 2024 at 11:52 AM