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Juan-Camilo Cardenas

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Professor of economics at @uniandes and @umass-amherst, member of the Earth Commission, center of the SDGs for Latin America and Caribbean https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yfeFFpIAAAAJ&hl=en

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · 9d

2015 during a visit she did to Colombia to contrinue spreading the message of the Roots & Shoots program. What a human being! inspiring in so many ways. Rest in Peace #janegoodall

Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Sep 2

It is that feeling in the stomach that I have been feeling for the last 25 years hours before my first class of the semester. This time at this campus that has always welcomed us

Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Aug 22

Listas las 10 primeras unidades gracias a un esfuerzo de equipo liderado por @coreecon.bsky.social
Montones de recursos para instructores para facilitar la transición de otros textos desactualizados

CORE Econ @coreecon.bsky.social · Aug 20

🇪🇸 La economía 2.0: microeconomía is now fully available on the CORE website. Thanks to our translators Jose Izquierdo, Dulcinea Otero-Piñeiro, & editors Luz Marina Arias, Antonio Cabrales, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Humberto Llavador, and Francesc Trillas.

All units of The Economy 2.0 Microeconomics Spanish translation are now available on the CORE website.

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CORE Econ @coreecon.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Aug 15

So, there are call centers dedicated to evaluate the calls from other call centers. Is this a productive use of humans? not sure.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Dec 27

‘Godfather of AI’ raises odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years

Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10-20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in next three decades amid fast pace of change The British-Canadian computer scientist often touted as a “godfather” of artificial intelligence has raised the odds of AI wiping…

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NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics @repec-nep-exp.bsky.social · Jan 25

The impact of experiments on environmental policy and natural resource management: Christian A. Vossler; Timothy N. Cason; James J. Murphy; Paul J. Ferraro; Todd L. Cherry; George Loewenstein; Peter Martinsson; Jason F. Shogren; Leaf van Boven; Daan van Soest

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to paper

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Jul 12

speaking of cognitive dissonance

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 12

The same people who deny that releasing 40+ billion tonnes of chemicals annually into the atmosphere changes our climate think that an airplane spraying a few tonnes of chemicals into the atmosphere definitely does. I want the world to be less stupid, as well as less evil.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 12

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Jun 28

This is just 0,21% of the solution!! Is it scalable? Should be scaled?

"All the carbon credits sold last year claimed to offset a combined 84mn tonnes of CO₂ emissions. Compare that with last year’s global CO₂ emissions of more than 40bn tonnes." www.ft.com/content/199d...

Governments will be key to fixing the carbon credit market

New intergovernmental initiative should boost spirits in a sector that has taken a battering

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Huxley @huxleymorgan.bsky.social · Jun 22

Black and white image of Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, smoking a cigarette. "The world is not divided between east and west. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

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Bradley Busch @bradleybusch.bsky.social · Jun 18

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · May 19

Competition among predatory journals is getting tougher I guess

Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · May 13

They probably both rested in peace, in the very meaninig of the RIP idea. Mission accomplished, gave much of their lives, with mistakes and steps back, to the common good.

Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · May 13

Pepe Mujica and Pope Francesco rested on 2025, ten years later the SDGs/Agenda 2030 and the Laudato Si encyclical were presented to the world. Both of these people had dignity and simplicity of human life as important core concepts. Muchas gracias a los dos.

Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · May 10

Hopefully @bsky.app can help build a public sphere www.noemamag.com/all-that-is-...

Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · May 3

Si esa demanda es inelástica (por ej industrias que aumentan su contratación en horas laborales diurnas), se contratan menos horas extras, se libera tiempo de esos trabajadores que podría asignarse a la economía de cuidado o a educación y eso no lo estamos estimando tampoco.

Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · May 3

Suponga que la demanda laboral es inelástica y se generan estos costos para las pymes. En ese caso se deberían aumentar ingresos y gasto de trabajadores (formales, claro) porque les toca contratar a esta gente (por ej. bares y restaurantes). Ese aumeento en consumo se debería agregar a la ecuación.