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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1h

Wow

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 14h

Cochrane isn’t interested in celebrating how the economics of race has advanced he’s interested in burnishing his clan’s image by praising Black economists that fit into the neat little political box he is willing to acknowledge.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 14h

If you actually cared about the economics of race and even wanted to acknowledge Black economists you’d say something like Darity-Loury-Stewart. Innovative theoretical contributions. Actually advanced how we think about race. But that doesn’t accomplish what Cochrane wants to accomplish.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 14h

Whenever Cochrane mentions this trio Loury is the only one who ever makes sense to me. Unlike Sowell he actually made an important impact on the economics of race and unlike Fryer he’s at a stage in his career where you can recognize his impact as transformative.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 14h

Celebrating Sowell for his work on race - which has not transformed the field - as opposed to his work on classical economics or Intellectuals and Society seems insulting to Sowell. Fryer is a sharp empiricist for sure but you don’t give Nobels to sharp empiricists in their forties.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 14h

I find this white conservative excitement over exclusively conservative (or conservative coded in the case of Fryer, I don’t know how conservative he is personally) Black economists so insulting. Take Sowell. He’s legitimately brilliant but his major contributions weren’t on the economics of race.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 16h

Beautiful Fall evening

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting democracy and opposing dictatorship. Now that’s a prize citation we need this year!

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Big plans this weekend: garlic planting on the mountain.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Why would an authoritarian come to the rescue of a libertarian? 🤔🤔🤔

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

(This is a post about Frank Taussig)

…alternatively maybe I have a low threshold for what I consider interesting but I honestly think there’s a lot out there to discover.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

I repeatedly start a history of project thinking I’m doing something fairly normal and then find something wild that nobody has found before.

I don’t think I’m especially talented I think it’s evidence that there’s a lot of new stuff to explore in the history of economics.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

(This is ironic and also funny I do not support this administration or hope that it earns any good will)

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

This would have bought a lot of good will at a perilous time for this administration and they blew it.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

Sweet! Great episode. Ofronama is fantastic, we were colleagues at the Urban Institute before she went to Maven.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 2d

Dr. Biu introduces the idea of "occupational crowding" which gets at groups of people crowding into certain jobs irrespective of their educational attainment.

She says Black women are crowding into poor quality jobs DESPITE being highly educated. These jobs are vulnerable to cuts.

Is the economy slowing? Ask Black women. : It's Been a Minute

Black women’s unemployment rate is hovering at 6.7% — higher than the rate for white workers. Is it a sign the broader economy could sour? These economists say yes.Black women are the 'canary in the ...

www.npr.org

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 2d

HELLO!!!! I am on @npr.org today with the brilliant Dr. Ofronama Biu and @bmluse.bsky.social on It's Been a Minute.

We talk about why our economy needs Black women, how #TheDoubleTax explains the current moment, and what steps need to happen next. Get the book: annagifty.com!

#blacksky #booksky

Is the economy slowing? Ask Black women. : It's Been a Minute

Black women’s unemployment rate is hovering at 6.7% — higher than the rate for white workers. Is it a sign the broader economy could sour? These economists say yes.Black women are the 'canary in the ...

www.npr.org

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

The other funny thing about critiquing GDP as a well-being measure is that that always goes to the "hard cases" like the environment or home production or defense, but GDP isn't even meant to measure the well-being generated by consumer goods! You don't even have to appeal to the unique cases!

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. Basically all GDP critiques boil down to "imagine GDP was meant to do something other than it was meant to do, THEN it is a bad measure," which is needless to say not very persuasive.

That GDP is not a well-being measure does not mean there's anything wrong with GDP.

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 3d

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.

Thread below ⬇️

Hegel and Colonialism

Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism

www.cambridge.org

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 4d

It's really frustrating to see people say "but that's illegal" in response to the statement about back pay for federal workers, as if that has been a constraint on the administration's actions this year.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 4d

It is not an empty threat because they have done other illegal things and gotten away with it.

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Michael Macher @michael-macher.bsky.social · 4d

Trump admin is refusing backpay to furloughed federal workers while insulating DHS from the worst effects of the shutdown.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 4d

They continue to find new ways to be awful.

www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay

A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

www.axios.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 6d

lmao I just saw a cybertruck on 495 with a big “Ford” logo decal across the back. Nice try buddy. You’re not fooling anyone.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 6d

Nothing quite as satisfying as emptying the kitchen bay window, pruning and repotting the plants as needed, cleaning all the clutter and dust, and doing a fresh new plant arrangement.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 8d

There is definitely a paper to be written that I probably won’t get around to writing on Du Bois and the Austrians. My forthcoming JEP paper on Du Bois definitely addresses it but it’s one of several things I review and I leave a lot of what he said about the Austrians out. Free paper idea!

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