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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana)
@ericrasmusen.bsky.social
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Christian, economist, author of Games and Info, Ramseyer co-author, law-and-econ, game theory, conservative, mushroomer, Yale, MIT, Indiana. I like Oxford, GMU, amicus briefs, 7th-grade math, MIT Free Speech Alliance, Substack. Blocked by 294 here.
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 20h
The Real Meaning of the Baseball-Boys-on-Boxes Cartoon: Inefficiency Is Bad ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-real-m...
The Real Meaning of the Baseball-Boys-on-Boxes Cartoon: Inefficiency Is Bad
This classic cartoon is wonderful in depiction and discussable in message.
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 1d
The Real Meaning of the Baseball-Boys-on-Boxes Cartoon: Inefficiency Is Bad ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-real-m...
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 1d
Today's Substack: Capitalism and socialism in the cartoon of three boys standing on crates watching a baseball game: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-real-m...
The Real Meaning of the Baseball-Boys-on-Boxes Cartoon: Inefficiency Is Bad
This classic cartoon is wonderful in depiction and discussable in message.
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 3d
Why Architecture Matters www.theculturist.io/p/why-archit...
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Aug 4
She *should* be in minimum security. Is she likely to stab another inmate?
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Aug 4
Kind of like a VAT. Maybe it's efficient, by accident.
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Aug 3
"The 2025 Suit against Professor DeGraff and MIT for Anti-Semitism" Substack. Interesting as an situation where once I investigated the lawsuit, I switched sides. ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-2025-s...
The 2025 Suit against Professor DeGraff and MIT for Anti-Semitism
A story has been circulating about a Jewish PhD student in computer science at MIT who was the target of such an intense internet harassment campaign by a pro-Palestinian professor that he dropped out...
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Aug 3
Isn't it a political appointment, so he'd replace her anyway?
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Aug 3
In American slang, a Mickey Finn is a drink laced with an incapacitating agent, particularly chloral hydrate, given to someone without their consent with the intent to incapacitate them or "knock them out"; hence the colloquial name knockout drops.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · Aug 3
A new cocktail: @anthonyrickey.bsky.social recently introduced me to the Mickey Finn. It’s really good! Bracing, but really good.

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This Forgotten Gin Classic Is “Silky as Hell”
A forgotten gin cocktail, the Mickey Finn is an underrated classic drink that Atlanta restaurant Whoopsie’s has transformed into a Martini.
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Aug 3
"In American slang, a Mickey Finn is a drink laced with an incapacitating agent, particularly chloral hydrate, given to someone without their consent with the intent to incapacitate them or "knock them out"; hence the colloquial name knockout drops."
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Aug 1
My latest Substack: NetChoice v. Paxton, the 2024 Supreme Court case re Texas law requiring viewpoint neutrality for X, Facebook. The case is continuing. My focus is on the algorithm disclosure requirement. I'm going to make it into an amicus brief.
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NetChoice v. Paxton Redux: Algorithm Disclosure
Introduction
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Aug 1
My latest Substack: NetChoice v. Paxton, the 2024 Supreme Court case re Texas law requiring viewpoint neutrality for X, Facebook. The case is continuing. My focus is on the algorithm disclosure requirement. I'm going to make it into an amicus brief.
ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/netchoice-...
NetChoice v. Paxton Redux: Algorithm Disclosure
Introduction
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Jul 31
Can,
"Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint,"
be translated as
"I am the spirit who always says no."
?
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Jul 28
Good news for free speech this year: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/good-news-...
Good News for the Cancelled Club
Recently I decided write a letter to “The Cancelled Club,” the various people I’ve met who’ve been pestered by online mobs.
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Jul 28
This news might interest you: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/good-news-...
Good News for the Cancelled Club
Recently I decided write a letter to “The Cancelled Club,” the various people I’ve met who’ve been pestered by online mobs.
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Jul 28
Some good news for free speech:https://ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/good-news-for-the-cancelled-club
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Jul 28
Some good news for free speech: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/good-news-...
Good News for the Cancelled Club
Recently I decided write a letter to “The Cancelled Club,” the various people I’ve met who’ve been pestered by online mobs.
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Jul 28
We already have the FBI, which, indeed, the Founders would hate.
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Jul 19
Some men are chickens.
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Jul 19
Great painting. Who is it by? You have good taste, and you helped me by posting it.
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Jul 19
The way to help local radio news is to have the FCC shut public radio stations down if they buy national news programming such as NPR, so they will switch to hiring reporters to cover local news more.
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Jul 19
I should think Trump would have to get an adverse inference if the WSJ doesn't reveal the names. Otherwise, a newspaper could always claim it had reliable sources when it really just made things up. Though sealing the evidence would make sense.
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Jul 19
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/u...
10 Charged With Attempted Murder in Officer Shooting at ICE Detention Center
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Jul 19
Good question. The WSJ could, if it wished, call them as witnesses if it needed that to show the validity or plausibility of the documents. The source could then sue for breach of contract, if secrecy was promised by the WSJ. Would a court seal the suit and require specific performance by WSJ?
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · Jul 18
Okay actual question about the Trump libel lawsuit: Is there any legal protection for the reporters' sources in this kind of dispute?
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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · Jul 19
Good question. The WSJ could, if it wished, call them as witnesses if it needed that to show the validity or plausibility of the documents. The source could then sue for breach of contract, if secrecy was promised by the WSJ. Would a court seal the suit and require specific performance by WSJ?
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