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November 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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a straussian read reveals an insight, which should not be shared
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
a straussian read reveals an insight, which should not be shared
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Y’all, this CSWEP newsletter is a banger. Five women economists generously share their stories about navigating family and career. 🔥 @jialanw.bsky.social @kmpjones.bsky.social Sarah Hamersma, Kosali Simon, and Sarah Baird. It was an honor to "edit" (which mostly involved sitting back for good reads)
CSWEP News Issue IV, "Focus on Fertility" by @caitlinmyers.bsky.social is out now. www.aeaweb.org/content/file...
www.aeaweb.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Y’all, this CSWEP newsletter is a banger. Five women economists generously share their stories about navigating family and career. 🔥 @jialanw.bsky.social @kmpjones.bsky.social Sarah Hamersma, Kosali Simon, and Sarah Baird. It was an honor to "edit" (which mostly involved sitting back for good reads)
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Just read this paper that revisits Weitzman’s 1974 question on when policymakers should use taxes versus quotas to correct externalities in stochastic networked economies. It shows if shocks are positively correlated (like a global energy price jump) linear taxes win...
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Just read this paper that revisits Weitzman’s 1974 question on when policymakers should use taxes versus quotas to correct externalities in stochastic networked economies. It shows if shocks are positively correlated (like a global energy price jump) linear taxes win...
always two there are... the value and the __________
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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The existence of sub-urban areas implies the existence of dom-urban areas.
(tip o' the hat to @akhilrao.bsky.social for this genre of post)
(tip o' the hat to @akhilrao.bsky.social for this genre of post)
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The existence of sub-urban areas implies the existence of dom-urban areas.
(tip o' the hat to @akhilrao.bsky.social for this genre of post)
(tip o' the hat to @akhilrao.bsky.social for this genre of post)
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orchid mantis appreciation post
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
orchid mantis appreciation post
periodic monopolistic competition post:
Anthropic has no competitors, because nobody else sells Claude
we’re expecting Opus 4.5 soon, and time will tell if they understand this
It’s over if Opus 4.5 is yet another over-RLVR’d braindead shell-of-a-Claude
we’re expecting Opus 4.5 soon, and time will tell if they understand this
It’s over if Opus 4.5 is yet another over-RLVR’d braindead shell-of-a-Claude
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
periodic monopolistic competition post:
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November 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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*Twilight Zone voice* Imagine, if you will, papers stuck in review for just long enough that previously acceptable degrees of robustness in said papers no longer meet disciplinary standards
Looking forward to the next iteration of this work, “F- it, we’re doing four robustnesses.”
New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
*Twilight Zone voice* Imagine, if you will, papers stuck in review for just long enough that previously acceptable degrees of robustness in said papers no longer meet disciplinary standards
how long till infinitely robust estimators
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
how long till infinitely robust estimators
building a starshade to fix this
[sits up in bed] The Sun is sincerely non-rival and non-excludable. The Sun is a public good.
Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
building a starshade to fix this
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Markets > central planning.
November 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Markets > central planning.
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"the supply is bad. But the demand... The demand is very good"
June 14, 2024 at 4:01 PM
"the supply is bad. But the demand... The demand is very good"
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Your own professional Jesus
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Your own professional Jesus
folks who know cameras: any recs for a decent digital point and shoot for a beginner? I'd like to use my phone less
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
folks who know cameras: any recs for a decent digital point and shoot for a beginner? I'd like to use my phone less
i do not like liquid glass
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i do not like liquid glass
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November 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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would be very funny to see these on a map
A modest proposal for celebrity academics: The Epstein Number.
Epstein Number 1: You are named in the Epstein files.*
Epstein Number 2: You have co-written an op-ed or co-signed an open letter with someone with an Epstein number of 1.
And so on.
* Epstein Number 0: you are Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein Number 1: You are named in the Epstein files.*
Epstein Number 2: You have co-written an op-ed or co-signed an open letter with someone with an Epstein number of 1.
And so on.
* Epstein Number 0: you are Jeffrey Epstein.
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
would be very funny to see these on a map
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November 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
this is framed as being about the un-wisdom of crowds but it really seems to be about the challenges of distributed trust and alignment. in fairness I suppose wisdom is often presumed to be benign. #linklog
How A Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing
High-tech analysis of a 2011 DARPA Challenge suggests that far from being wise, crowds can’t be trusted
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
this is framed as being about the un-wisdom of crowds but it really seems to be about the challenges of distributed trust and alignment. in fairness I suppose wisdom is often presumed to be benign. #linklog
all credit to my coauthors. free download till 11 Jan 2026
Emissions assessment of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband megaconstellations; Starlink, OneWeb and Kuiper
The growth of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband satellite megaconstellations is rapidly increasing the number of rocket launches. While improving broadb…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
all credit to my coauthors. free download till 11 Jan 2026
in fairness, despite the data issues it started a conversation in the discipline
"Toner-Rodgers’s illusory success seems in part thanks to the dynamics he has now upset: an academic culture at MIT where high levels of trust, integrity and rigor are all—for better or worse—assumed"
Uh huh, now just who is given the assumption of rigor?
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www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
Uh huh, now just who is given the assumption of rigor?
(🎁 link)
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart
Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
in fairness, despite the data issues it started a conversation in the discipline