Spencer Pantoja
spantoja.bsky.social
Spencer Pantoja
@spantoja.bsky.social
Economics PhD, Stanford. Game theorist studying political economy and organizational economics. spantoja.com
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Streaming films from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social even while on Thanksgiving break tinyurl.com/3h769dcf. Just make sure you authenticate tinyurl.com/yc5527mj. Check it Out! @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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This was a lot of fun! I presented joint work w/ @luozhaotian.bsky.social & @spantoja.bsky.social asking “How Is a Dictatorship (Not) Like a Firm?” Both dictatorships and firms are hierarchical organizations, but there are some illuminating differences. Slides here 👇
August 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Dick Nelson, pioneer in the economics of technical change, has died at 94. His remarkable book with Sid Winter (1982) An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change spawned many literatures. His edited the first "Rate and Direction" volume and wrote a history-based investigation of 1/2
January 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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This 1952 AJS Donald Roy paper was what first excited me about ethnography. I assign it to PhD students w/classic org econ theory. I've always wanted to ask Bob Gibbons, Baker, Holmstrom, Milgrom, Roberts, ect. if they had read this. Ethnography is a wellspring of theory & policy. #orgsky #econsky
Quota Restriction and Goldbricking in a Machine Shop on JSTOR
Donald Roy, Quota Restriction and Goldbricking in a Machine Shop, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 57, No. 5, The Sociological Study of Work (Mar., 1952), pp. 427-442
www.jstor.org
December 2, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Recommend orgs nerd camp highly! It’s a great experience trying to train yourself to speak in other disciplinary languages, and I still talk to members of my cohort regularly.
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December 22, 2024 at 4:23 AM