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Guido Alfani @guidoalfani.bsky.social · 5d

Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 6d

"[Econ History and History of Econ orient] an economist on a vast landscape of [...] problems not as some always random phenomena but as something that systemically evolves through the complexity of social interactions and policy decisions over time."

Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 10d

"So, professor, how do we correct economics?" - I was asked a month or so ago...

The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.

proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you @cacrisalves.bsky.social !

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 10d

FYI @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social ⬆️

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 10d

"So, professor, how do we correct economics?" - I was asked a month or so ago...

The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.

proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 10d

FYI @rethinkecon.bsky.social ⤴️

Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 10d

"So, professor, how do we correct economics?" - I was asked a month or so ago...

The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.

proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 11d

"one thing is clear -- #commodities prices will continue in their volatility..." but what of #development?

open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

Commodities, macroeconomic development, and small open economies

Facing primary commodity dependence & related price volatility, the challenge for small open economies is to come up with an inclusive and solid macroeconomic development model.

open.substack.com

Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 12d

In this latest podcast we touch on complex problems of the state of the field of economics and what it actually means to be an economist…

No way that was easy. But hopefully there’s something reasonable for everyone

www.hgsss.org/the-henry-ge...

THE HENRY GEORGE SCHOOL PODCAST - hgsss.org

www.hgsss.org

Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 16d

Any suggestions for some detection software options? Tks!

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 16d

So, what is your strategy to reviewing such a paper for a leading journal in your field?

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 20d

Two charts from @brankomilan.bsky.social - impressive income growth but rising inequality as well as a rising new “bourgeoisie”… all within 4 decades or so

Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 20d

The big conversation - taking place now at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social - discussing demographics, development, inequality, perceptions in / of #China with @brankomilan.bsky.social @janetgornick.bsky.social & others on the panel.

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 22d

Is there a link between the type of exports (primary commodities) / the currency they are traded in and macroeconomic development?

Read:

open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

Commodities, macroeconomic development, and small open economies

Facing primary commodity dependence & related price volatility, the challenge for small open economies is to come up with an inclusive and solid macroeconomic development model.

open.substack.com

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 21d

FYI @unctad.bsky.social @undp.org

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 21d

Inequalities in new capitalism.

LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 23d

In the class-based society of the “old” capitalism, there was a clear contradiction between capital and labour. But today, the richest capitalists & the richest workers are increasingly the same people. What should we make of this, asks @brankomilan.bsky.social? #LSEInequalitiesBlog

New Capitalism in America

The richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people: replacing a class-based society, we now have an elite-ruled society

buff.ly

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 22d

Is there a link between the type of exports (primary commodities) / the currency they are traded in and macroeconomic development?

Read:

open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

Commodities, macroeconomic development, and small open economies

Facing primary commodity dependence & related price volatility, the challenge for small open economies is to come up with an inclusive and solid macroeconomic development model.

open.substack.com

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 22d

"one thing is clear -- commodities prices will continue in their volatility" - new Substack

proseontherocks.substack.com/p/commoditie...

Commodities, macroeconomic development, and small open economies

Facing primary commodity dependence & related price volatility, the challenge for small open economies is to come up with an inclusive and solid macroeconomic development model.

proseontherocks.substack.com

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 27d

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

My review of Sebouh Aslanian's "Early Modernity and Mobility" .... with a strong flavor of #diaspora topic: from history to today across #Eurasia!

Follow the link below for free access and spread the word!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WN2AF...

FYU @yalepress.bsky.social

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 27d

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

My review of Sebouh Aslanian's "Early Modernity and Mobility" .... with a strong flavor of #diaspora topic: from history to today across #Eurasia!

Follow the link below for free access and spread the word!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WN2AF...

FYU @yalepress.bsky.social

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · Sep 1

Among economic reasons, Germany’s hyperinflation of the 1920s was a key factor leading to all the horror that would follow in the subsequent two decades…

(economics matters & reading JM Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace mattered even more at the time)…

[a flea market catch]

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · Aug 13

Clark, C. M. and A.V. Gevorkyan. 2020. Artificial Intelligence and Human Flourishing. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Vol. 79(4): 1307-1344 doi.org/10.1111/ajes...

Artificial Intelligence and Human Flourishing

The polarization of the debate about artificial intelligence (AI) pulls in two mutually exclusive directions of either complete takeover of future jobs by omnipotent algorithms or an absolute bliss w...

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · Jun 13

With Tarron Khemraj we explain how balancing gold holdings in a central bank reserves is a policy choice, especially in the context of maintaining a competitive exchange rate or currency stability for some emerging markets.

Read / cite and share, plz:
doi.org/10.1080/1540...

Exchange Rate Targeting and Gold Demand by Central Banks: Modeling International Reserves Composition

This article explores the composition of international reserves under a central bank’s exchange rate policy target. The model allows for numerical estimation of a shadow price of the target exchang...

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · Jun 8

Today's substack is on diaspora bond's (Ireland was first): some history, some econ development, and a lot of caution...

READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/on-diaspor...

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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · Aug 20

The lack of attention by fast print academic publishers to details, in this case a map, though minor, almost devalues the entire research effort…

Unorthodox spellings aside, Armenia and Georgia swapping places on this map is a new mystic twist in the Caucasus cartography….