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Luca Rigotti
@lucarigotti.bsky.social
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Theoretical Economist at the University of Pittsburgh https://sites.pitt.edu/~luca/
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Leonard Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · Sep 3
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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Aug 27
The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word.

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Mario Seminerio @phastidio.net · Aug 26
Dirò una cosa assai poco originale: se i mercati, in particolare in questo momento quello obbligazionario, non gli si rivoltano contro di fronte all'assalto alla Fed, Trump andrà fino in fondo. Gli unici checks and balances per lui verranno (ove mai) dal mercato.
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · Aug 24
Seasonally, I would imagine
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John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · Aug 22
If you'll be on the #EconJobMarket this coming year, you may want to join this webinar by @aereorg.bsky.social, titled, "Navigating Uncertain Waters: Advice for the Current Job Market," with Min Gong & @adrienneohler.bsky.social. 29 Sept 2025 @ 11am ET.
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · Aug 24
What's my room number?
Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · Aug 20
Commiserations
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · Aug 8
Need to add acid bath concrete pilon to the list of weapons
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · Aug 8
As if Ph.D. level is a good thing
bbc.com/news/article...
OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’
GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.
bbc.com
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yaleeconomics.bsky.social @yaleeconomics.bsky.social · Jul 23
Join us in congratulating Steven Berry (@steveberry.bsky.social), who was recently appointed the Sterling Professor of Economics—the highest academic honor a Yale professor can receive.

Berry joined Yale in 1988 and is the inaugural director of the
Yale Tobin Center: news.yale.edu/2025/07/22/b...
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · Jul 19
Archdukes died for much smaller offenses
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · Jun 28
Reminded me of my own ceremony, a few years back
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Jun 20
Even the most hardened haters will have to admit that yesterday was awesome at the CWC (Messi + PSG loss). Again establishing the ancestral truth: Fifa sucks, but football is awesome, and always triumphs.
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · Jun 16
Pitt Junior faculty rock!
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Jun 16
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Breadwinner’s Burden: The Effect of Financial Concerns on Sleeplessness" by Claire Duquennois and Maulik Jagnani. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Breadwinner’s Burden: The Effect of Financial Concerns on Sleeplessness
(Forthcoming Article) - Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that eligible household heads surveyed just after an unconditional cash transfer in Indonesia report a 0.4 standard deviation i...
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · Jun 15
But then you point out to them that you live in Turin...
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · May 31
Air Italy had one
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · May 31
With more than one airline (a small airline called Neos is the other)
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Andrew Kosenko @andrewkosenko.bsky.social · May 30
Werner Von Braun would like a word.

Also, do the Manhattan Project.

Von Neumann, Fermi, Szilard, Wigner - and Einstein, whose letter got the ball rolling. To name just a few.

Or American mathematics: Courant, Kac, Lax, Wald...
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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · May 30
Oh my god
Vance is so good: "The American Space Program, the first program to put a human being on the moon, was built by American citizens. This idea that American citizens don't have the talent to do great things, that you have to import a foreign class of servants, I just reject that."
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · May 30
Chapeau
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · May 28
The description below, from this week's @adamprz.bsky.social Diary, strikes me as very plausible.
In somewhat stylized terms, what may be happening with the Trump regime goes as follows. There is a Leader (Duce, Führer, Vozdh) who demands absolute loyalty from his subordinates. The subordinates know that they will be rewarded for implementing the will of the Leader. They compete for his attention. Lines demarcating their authority do not matter: the head of HHS Department tries to catch Leader's attention by doing something that formally can be done only by DoE Department and if the Leader notices and likes this action, the head of the HHS jumps in his approval above the head of DoE. Sometimes the subordinates go farther than the Leader would want; sometimes they do something the Leader does not approve. Such mistakes, however, are not due to a lack of expertise, but only the uncertainty inherent in the impossibility of the Leader to fully articulate his will. Sometimes the Leader has to step in to adjudicate conflicts. Some of his underlings may be pushing tariffs while others may want free trade; some may be concerned about deficits while others believe that they will pay for themselves. Moreover, envy and jealousy cannot be avoided when the underlings compete for the Leader's favor. Mussolini claimed that resolving such conflicts took most of his time. Yet, whenever loyalty is the only criterion of performance, chaos must ensue. The only purpose of the subordinates is to please the Leader. Formal authority, consideration of material consequences, or compassion have no place in their competition.
Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · May 24
Italy: the country with the most colorful elections
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · May 23
che giorno triste
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · May 17
Be a theorist. At worst, your theorem is wrong and everyone thinks you're a moron... Still better than everyone discovering you're a fraudster and a cheat.
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · May 17
Be a theorist. At worst, your theorem is wrong and everyone thinks you're a moron... Still better than everyone discovering you're a fraudster and a cheat.
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Luca Rigotti @lucarigotti.bsky.social · May 8
Ying and Yang?