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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 5h

(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 · 5h

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 · 7h

(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 · 7h

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

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 12h

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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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 8h

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

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 13h

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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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 10h

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 16h

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 · 21h

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 · 1d

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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Michael Macher @michael-macher.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

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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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 3d

This shit must hit so hard if you’re stupid.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

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

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 6d

My interview with Austrian economist and all around great guy Bob Murphy, talking about my new paper on W.E.B. Du Bois and marginalist wage theory!

youtu.be/lmjXs9ScTL0?...

Daniel Kuehn on WEB Dubois' Interaction with Bohm-Bawerk

YouTube video by Robert Murphy

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 6d

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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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 6d

My interview with Austrian economist and all around great guy Bob Murphy, talking about my new paper on W.E.B. Du Bois and marginalist wage theory!

youtu.be/lmjXs9ScTL0?...

Daniel Kuehn on WEB Dubois' Interaction with Bohm-Bawerk

YouTube video by Robert Murphy

youtu.be

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7d

President Pritzker is going to get record ratings when he takes a wrecking ball to that ballroom on prime time TV.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 7d

Great, I read Goodwyn ages ago but forgot about that.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 8d

You nerds never disappoint

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 8d

What are the best books on late 19th century labor history, particularly Haymarket and Great Southwest Strike?

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 8d

If you’re interested in this Daniel Nientiedt is doing the best work in history of economics right now on Hayek and Schmitt.