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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15d

Dana Goodyear’s home burned in the L.A. fires. In a new essay, she writes about the disaster and its aftermath. nyer.cm/VNSpo99

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · Jul 15

📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August.
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To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Department of Economics of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name.

Ghazala made important contributions in a large number of fields, spanning the economics of discrimination, gender, education and organizational economics. The award will promote work in those fields by young scholars.

The first edition of this award will consist of a 5,000 euro prize for the best paper in this set of fields by junior researchers. The selection of the laureate will be carried out by a scientific committee composed of Pierre Cahuc, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo.

Eligibility for the prize requires that all authors have obtained their PhD after 1 September 2018. Papers written jointly with more senior researchers will not be considered.

The prize will be awarded at SciencesPo during the event organised in memory of Ghazala on 10 December 2025. One of the authors of the prize winning paper will present the work at this event.

Applications must be submitted by 31 August 2025.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 25

A clever new study "confirms that the country’s tax code is regressive, not progressive, at the very top," @annielowrey.bsky.social reports. American billionaires "pay lower tax rates than many middle-class professionals":

How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes

A clever new paper puts concrete numbers to the taxes paid by members of the Forbes 400.

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Petra Moser @pmoser.bsky.social · Jul 14

When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became dominant, what held it back, and what we can do better. Here's the first pub (with Scott Kim).

Econometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · Jul 14

Analyzing scientists' biographies during the baby boom, we find that mothers have a unique life cycle pattern of productivity. Children reduce the productivity of mothers but not fathers, with important implications for promotions and participation. buff.ly/39WbYRH

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Heidi Shierholz @hshierholz.bsky.social · Jul 3

This is a low point for our country.

Congress just passed a bill that shreds the safety net, fuels mass deportations, and gives $100K+ annual tax breaks to the ultra-rich—while adding nearly $4 trillion to the debt.

My full statement: www.epi.org/press/epi-pr...

EPI president Heidi Shierholz denounces passage of GOP budget bill

Congress just passed one of the most destructive economic bills in generations. The Republican budget will gut Medicaid, slash food aid for families, and shutter rural hospitals—just to give tax break...

www.epi.org

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Heidi Shierholz @hshierholz.bsky.social · Jul 3

Congress is poised to pass one of the most destructive economic bills in generations. It will gut Medicaid, slash food aid for families, shutter rural hospitals—just to give tax breaks that will go overwhelmingly to the wealthy. It is a staggering upward redistribution of income. 1/

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Bill Chopik @chops310.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · Jun 30

Fog nets turn Chile’s Atacama Desert into a salad bowl. In Chañaral, growers are using mesh 'fog catchers' to harvest up to 1,400 litres of water daily from coastal mist, enough to raise lettuce and lemon trees in the planet’s driest desert. buff.ly/gWc9srr
#ShareGoodNewsToo

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Esther Boler @estherboler.bsky.social · Jun 28

I feel seen

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jun 28

Being a social scientist means holding two truths at once: 1. This is all deeply complicated 2. I have to submit something by Tuesday

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Meredith Crowley @meredith-crowley.bsky.social · Jun 19

The New Global Economy: Trade Wars and De-dollarisation?

Submissions deadline: 1 July 2025

Conference dates: 27-28 September 2025

Location: Cambridge UK

Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · May 29

#CallforPapers for the conference 'The New Global Economy: Trade Wars & De-dollarisation?'
Deadline: 1 July
Organisers: @meredith-crowley.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social , Lu Han @bankofcanada.ca, Dmitry Mukhin , Ben Tomlin @bankofcanada.ca

More and submit your paper
cepr.org/events/new-g...

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Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · Jun 18

In a new @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social policy brief, @johnspringford.bsky.social‬ finds that many foreign workers needed for net zero will not meet the UK's new higher salary and skills thresholds for visas.

Read here: buff.ly/E9eFpiH

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Esther Boler @estherboler.bsky.social · Jun 13

Could not disagree more with this conclusion. One retailer’s transport emission is hardly a comprehensive measure of the climate effect of trade (or lack thereof).

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Jun 13

[One beneficiary of trade war? Climate.]

(Reuters) - Shein's carbon emissions from transporting products climbed 13.7% in 2024, the online fast-fashion retailer's sustainability report showed on Friday, and its 2023 transport emissions were 18% higher than previously reported after a recalculation.

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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · Jun 2

We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work.

🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25
💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month 
🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program

Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

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Konrad Burchardi @konradburchardi.bsky.social · Jun 2

💥Research Assistant Positions💥

1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.

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Yoto V. Yotov @yotoyotov.bsky.social · May 30

Javier Flórez (@pseud0safari.bsky.social), Mario Larch, Sebastien Bradley, and I are very happy share the update of the most disaggregated dataset of consistently constructed international and domestic trade flows -- GRANTPA.

So, let’s estimate GRAVITY with GRANTPA.

ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...

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Brad Plumer @bradplumer.bsky.social · May 30

DOE cancels $3.7 billion in demonstration projects aimed at cutting emissions — a couple big carbon capture demos, but also cement, glass, iron, chemicals projects.

Calpine and Exxon Mobil were hit, as were startups like Sublime and Brimstone. (Full list in story.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/c...

Energy Dept. Cancels $3.7 Billion for New Technologies to Lower Emissions

www.nytimes.com

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Esther Boler @estherboler.bsky.social · May 30

Imagine a world where governments believed universities, research and innovation were central, even vital, for growth?

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · May 30

'Universities will be lucky to avoid being “completely hit over the head” in the UK government’s upcoming spending review as ministers look set to prioritise plans for growth – which could eat into core research funding – and save higher education reform for a later date.' 1/3

Universities face ‘tough’ spending review after brutal few months

Potential reprioritisation of parts of research budget could heap pressure on institutions already counting cost of immigration and tax changes

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · May 30

I had to read this several times as “prioritise growth” and “hit universities over the head” are so mutually contradictory

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · May 30

'Universities will be lucky to avoid being “completely hit over the head” in the UK government’s upcoming spending review as ministers look set to prioritise plans for growth – which could eat into core research funding – and save higher education reform for a later date.' 1/3

Universities face ‘tough’ spending review after brutal few months

Potential reprioritisation of parts of research budget could heap pressure on institutions already counting cost of immigration and tax changes

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · May 26

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life.

Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever.

Our problem isn't a lack of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · May 23

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · May 21

With the exception of the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office, departments already have smaller budgets than before austerity.

Read more ⤵️ buff.ly/RTk1uYz

Chart showing change in real per-person RDEL between 2009-10 and 2025-26, sized by department: selected departments, UK

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · May 20

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.” – Frederik Pohl

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · May 18

how bleak that following most elections now is going WOOOOOOO fascists only on 47%!!!!!!!

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · May 18

A must read

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