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Gabriel Zaffari

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escrevo poesia pras gavetas, estudo (crítica da) economia política e moro na cittá eterna doutorando em economia na Roma Tre, bolsista Marie-Curie e parte da EPOG-DN (https://sites.google.com/view/gabzaffari/home)

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Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · Dec 25

Livros lidos em 2025 (sim começa em 2024)

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São transcrições de algumas entrevistas do Krenak. Sempre é bom 'ouvi-lo', diz as coisas como são sem medo. Mas da leitura entro e saio com nada mudado. De fato, o mundo capitalista destrói a natureza e a territorialidade, mas e aí? Quê fazer...?

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Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 3h

3) is so so true

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 1d

(1) banger
(2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)

Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 1d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 5d

super cool stuff!

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 5d

1/n Last week, the History of Economics community received the sad news that Malcom Rutherford has passed (see Margaret Schabas's announcement below)

A specialist of the history of institutionalism and the interwar period at large, every historian has been influence to some degree by his work

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Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 5d

me pergunto quanto dos ditos marxistas sabem disso;

Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 5d

@deepbrasilis.bsky.social um deleite.

Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 5d

insane lore drop sobre et bilu

Camarote da República @camarotedacpi.bsky.social · 5d

👽 TARCÍSIO E O ET BILU

“Busquem conhecimento.”

A frase do ET Bilu não só virou meme como também segue rendendo capítulos inusitados na política brasileira. Agora, a história conecta Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira ( criador do ET Bilú e da história de Ratanabá) e o Tarcísio de Freitas.

A imagem tem aparência granulada, como se fosse feita com uma câmera de visão noturna.
No centro, vê-se uma figura humanoide escura, com o rosto parcialmente iluminado em verde.

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Timothée Parrique @timparrique.bsky.social · 6d

New response out! timotheeparrique.com/a-response-t...

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Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 6d

ainda sobre matematica e economia

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NBER @nber.org · 6d

Presenting a novel dynamic stochastic skill production model for multiple skills. The model explains the "fadeout" of measures of learning, from James J. Heckman and Jin Zhou https://www.nber.org/papers/w34294

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Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 9d

A nostalgia mais triste possível ainda por cima. Acho que chega a ser pior que a roça mística

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NBER @nber.org · 9d

When climate risks rise, firms often pivot to adaptation or anti-climate lobbying, not mitigation. Myopic horizons worsen future risks, from Xia Li and Caroline Flammer https://www.nber.org/papers/w34276

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Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 9d

Why is there a hundred pages of footnotes...?

Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 9d

Imagine publishing Marx's Capital but with footnotes at the end.

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 9d

Also, as a footnote, this is rather more than a small ambiguity -- it's a gaping conceptual chasm. But this is, of course, old news.

There is a small ambiguity here. Piketty uses “wealth” and “capital” as interchangeable terms. We know how to calculate the wealth of a person or an institution: you add up the value of all its assets
and subtract the total of debts. (The values are market prices or, in their absence, some
approximation.) The result is net worth or wealth. In English at least, this is often called a person’s or institution’s capital. But “capital” has another, not quite equivalent, meaning: it is a “factor of production,” an essential input into the production process, in the form of factories, machinery, computers, office buildings, or houses (that produce “housing services”).

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Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 14d

In my piece, I look at Brazil's to enquire about the system of land ownership and the class power held by agribusiness as major obstacles to ecological transition. Our government faces a tough dilemma: how to advance our climate leadership when agribusiness and an extremist congress get in the way?

Lula’s Dilemma

In Brazil, big agribusiness holds the reins of political power. Without confronting this head-on, Lula’s ecological promises will remain just that—promises.

www.break-down.org

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Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 11d

O Ian Wright economista escreveu sobre isso. Acho que ele chama de Capital as a Real God

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Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 11d

Bourbakinistas choram

Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 11d

Tri que a definição de função é mais pra uma instrução de tasks do que uma definição de conjuntos.

Então, provavelmente

F(x,y) = (x+y)² vai ser diferente de
F(x,y) = x² + 2xy + y²

Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 12d

(even if TFP is a very questionable measure of productivity)

Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 12d

Hot take: Software companies gain money through absolute and monopoly rents. Hence, they are more akin to the Landlords of our time

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Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 12d

I read about it in another source. On Kurz and Salvadori Hotelling meets Ricardo model. I think it is in a book chapter.

Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 12d

of his time*

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Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 12d

Ricardo discussion on mining discusses some of this. That mining capacity of his very constrained.

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Gabriel Zaffari @gabzaffari.bsky.social · 13d

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tem essa do Haikaiss com sample do Itamar

Haikaiss Part. Natuv - A Vida Não É Problemática (Prod. SPVIC) | VÍDEO OFICIAL

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