👋 Welcome to Prof. Philipp Ager who is joining us in #Luxembourg this week as part of the Crossing Borders Visiting Program.

🗣️ Prof. Ager of the University of Mannheim & @cepr.org will present “The Effect of Immigration Restrictions on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure".

From Chris Stringer. In some sense, the question of “what special skill did humans have which allowed them to kill over Neanderthals?” is a moot point, since even multiple waves of Homo sapiens in Europe and Asia died off from successive human invasions

The 9th Emerging Scholars in Banking and Finance Conference is on! Martina Fraschini (U. of Luxembourg) is presenting the paper "CBDC and banks: Threat or opportunity?" #BayesBusinessSchool #CBR #digitalcurrencies

Few people even know about this; when people are asked in surveys how child mortality has changed the majority says it has stagnated or increased.

If you consider that many don't know about humanity's biggest achievement, then it's not surprising that many are so pessimistic about our future.

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I’ve added people to my 'Outside the box' starter pack which features accounts who think across partisan lines.

Those on it have ideological sympathies, but are open to diverse traditions and consider issues from case to case.

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It will be hard to find someone worse than Matt Gaetz for attorney general. But if anybody can do it, I trust it's the president-elect.