Steven Medema
@spydermed.bsky.social
Economist and historian of economics @ Duke. Unhealthy fascination with the Coase theorem.
No, way better. He just wrote my price controls lecture for Econ 101 next spring. Always nice to get a head start on teaching.
May 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
No, way better. He just wrote my price controls lecture for Econ 101 next spring. Always nice to get a head start on teaching.
Who says history of economics research isn’t relevant? Humbled and honored …
May 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Who says history of economics research isn’t relevant? Humbled and honored …
If I disappear after my Econ 101 lecture on international economics in a couple of weeks, at least y’all will know what happened to me. (Upside: I avoid the three weeks of macro lectures.)
March 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If I disappear after my Econ 101 lecture on international economics in a couple of weeks, at least y’all will know what happened to me. (Upside: I avoid the three weeks of macro lectures.)
Another day, and more winning! Reminds me of the good ol’ days when my Detroit Lions went 0-16. Former glory is being restored!
March 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Another day, and more winning! Reminds me of the good ol’ days when my Detroit Lions went 0-16. Former glory is being restored!
Reposted by Steven Medema
I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦
❤️ if you do, too.
❤️ if you do, too.
February 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦
❤️ if you do, too.
❤️ if you do, too.
Posted for no particular reason.
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February 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Posted for no particular reason.
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@gelbach.bsky.social is a fine scholar and a wonderful person. However, I simply will not stand for him insulting young ferrets in this way. Free speech rights should not extend to this sort of monstrous, slanderous sort of talk.
Move fast and break things FOR NO DAMN REASON BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALL THE SENSE OF A JUVENILE FERRET
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
February 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
@gelbach.bsky.social is a fine scholar and a wonderful person. However, I simply will not stand for him insulting young ferrets in this way. Free speech rights should not extend to this sort of monstrous, slanderous sort of talk.
Looking forward to Cruz pointing out the wokeness of the Coase theorem, since it tells us that we can indulge distributional preferences with zero efficiency consequences.
February 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Looking forward to Cruz pointing out the wokeness of the Coase theorem, since it tells us that we can indulge distributional preferences with zero efficiency consequences.
New Econ 101 test question just dropped.
U.S. TREASURY'S BESSENT: OUR STRONG DOLLAR POLICY DOESN'T MEAN OTHER COUNTRIES GET TO HAVE A WEAK CURRENCY POLICY -FBN
February 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
New Econ 101 test question just dropped.
Important new work by Malcolm Rutherford on the history of Blacks in American economics—the early generation of those earning PhDs.
@trevondlogan.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
@trevondlogan.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
THE FIRST GENERATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PhDs in ECONOMICS
This paper deals with the history of the African Americans who gained PhDs in economics from the first in 1921 until 1943. Roughly the first generation of Afric
papers.ssrn.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Important new work by Malcolm Rutherford on the history of Blacks in American economics—the early generation of those earning PhDs.
@trevondlogan.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
@trevondlogan.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Reposted by Steven Medema
The big Econ 101 class lecture today is on public goods. If only there were something in the news to motivate the lecture … 🤔
February 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The big Econ 101 class lecture today is on public goods. If only there were something in the news to motivate the lecture … 🤔
One of the screams you hear is the collective one of about 10,000 applied economists who see an endless stream of natural experiments unfolding before them alongside the collapse of funding for the research on them.
February 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
One of the screams you hear is the collective one of about 10,000 applied economists who see an endless stream of natural experiments unfolding before them alongside the collapse of funding for the research on them.
Get to teach the Jevons paradox to my 230 Econ 101 students tomorrow.
We are so back!!
#HistoryOfEconomicsFTW
We are so back!!
#HistoryOfEconomicsFTW
January 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Get to teach the Jevons paradox to my 230 Econ 101 students tomorrow.
We are so back!!
#HistoryOfEconomicsFTW
We are so back!!
#HistoryOfEconomicsFTW
A clown car, wrapped inside a shit show, wrapped inside a dumpster fire.
Sort of the turducken of governance.
Sort of the turducken of governance.
January 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
A clown car, wrapped inside a shit show, wrapped inside a dumpster fire.
Sort of the turducken of governance.
Sort of the turducken of governance.
Hi. I am teaching Econ 101 this term.
It's not quite on the level of, say, Con Law, but I'm teaching a class on higher ed right now and current events have really been @$#$ing with the lesson plans
January 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Hi. I am teaching Econ 101 this term.
This is what happens because nobody reads Adam Smith anymore. 🤣
@florianederer.bsky.social @anthonyleezhang.bsky.social @bengolub.bsky.social
@florianederer.bsky.social @anthonyleezhang.bsky.social @bengolub.bsky.social
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombian president orders increase of import tariffs on US goods in retaliation to similar order from President Trump.
January 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This is what happens because nobody reads Adam Smith anymore. 🤣
@florianederer.bsky.social @anthonyleezhang.bsky.social @bengolub.bsky.social
@florianederer.bsky.social @anthonyleezhang.bsky.social @bengolub.bsky.social
C’mon, Justin. Hockey pucks (official NHL ones) and tequila. Strategic trade policy. Someone is playing chess while the rest of us are playing checkers.
Proposed across the board tariffs as of Feb 1:
Canada 25%
Mexico 25%
China 10%
Other countries 0%
Galaxy brain needed to explain the strategic or economic objectives this meets.
Canada 25%
Mexico 25%
China 10%
Other countries 0%
Galaxy brain needed to explain the strategic or economic objectives this meets.
January 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
C’mon, Justin. Hockey pucks (official NHL ones) and tequila. Strategic trade policy. Someone is playing chess while the rest of us are playing checkers.
This is sweet. Looking forward to seeing the research produced utilizing it and subsequent national databases. The possibilities are immense!
With @thomasdelcey.bsky.social we are thrilled to release the first version of the French economics PhD database 🎉
tdelcey.github.io/becoming_eco...
Using Sudoc and theses.fr data, we have collected metadata on most PhD defended in France in economics since 1900!
#rstats #opendata #EconSky
tdelcey.github.io/becoming_eco...
Using Sudoc and theses.fr data, we have collected metadata on most PhD defended in France in economics since 1900!
#rstats #opendata #EconSky
January 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This is sweet. Looking forward to seeing the research produced utilizing it and subsequent national databases. The possibilities are immense!
If we were a little farther along in the semester, a “Pick an Executive Order and subject it to demand-supply analysis” would make for an interesting assignment for the coming weekend for my 101 students.
January 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
If we were a little farther along in the semester, a “Pick an Executive Order and subject it to demand-supply analysis” would make for an interesting assignment for the coming weekend for my 101 students.
Got to spend 2 hrs at Duke women’s hoops game today listening to dude behind me mansplaining the whole game and college hoops generally to his gf/partner.
Externalities are everywhere. (And no, my WTP was clearly nowhere near high enough to bribe this happy mansplainer into silence.)
Externalities are everywhere. (And no, my WTP was clearly nowhere near high enough to bribe this happy mansplainer into silence.)
January 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Got to spend 2 hrs at Duke women’s hoops game today listening to dude behind me mansplaining the whole game and college hoops generally to his gf/partner.
Externalities are everywhere. (And no, my WTP was clearly nowhere near high enough to bribe this happy mansplainer into silence.)
Externalities are everywhere. (And no, my WTP was clearly nowhere near high enough to bribe this happy mansplainer into silence.)