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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Jun 18

85 million people. It’s hard to forget that the war on terror gave the world more terror. Anyways, if you see someone from Iran these days go easy on them. We didn’t choose this.

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Jun 18

that in order to get a hostile entity be incentivized, you have to create costs for them. Unfortunately, at this point it’s hard to see how these attacks - supported by all leaders of the “free” world - even if they lead to a regime change will bring peace, prosperity and democracy for a country of

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Jun 18

nuclear program. We are also being bombarded at the behest of a war mongering criminal who seems like soon will be joined by another opportunist. It’s hard to describe the extent of hopelessness that this entails. As far as I can tell, wars don’t bring democracy and peace. The economist in me knows

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Jun 18

I don’t know if anyone actually sees this given that I never post but here it goes. If you see Iranians these days be a bit gentler with them. We are going through something horrific. Our nation is in the hand of a few individuals who don’t seem to care about anything other than having a useless

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · May 13

Question for political scientists/economists: obviously trump has in numerous times tried and or successfully violated the role of law. But this is not limited to him. Obama infamously killed a U.S. citizen without due process. So my question is whether these violations are ever quantified.

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Apr 23

Hard to argue with Matthias here. Big loss for us and good for Europe.

Matthias Doepke @mdoepke.bsky.social · Apr 23

30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house.

We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Apr 17

I realize maybe tit-for-tat is not the right word to use here but say I am a referee and for some idiosyncratic reason i don't like something in a paper. If I am a repeat referee I keep rejecting the paper. The tit-for-tat can happen if the authors learn my identity and use the same strategy on me!

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Apr 16

Wouldn’t you want to avoid tit for tat behavior in refereeing?

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Apr 15

Statutory or the actual ones paid?

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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · Apr 15

Just so it’s clear, the government wanted to oversee hiring and employment at a *private* institution in order to implement a purity test. When the institution refused, they took away money for life saving research (cancer etc).

That’s some fascist shit.

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 21

Oh that! Sure. I read the Atlantic, New Yorker and the Wired. Everywhere else I just follow the headlines. No reason to read the texts!!

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 21

I didn’t get the NYT part!?🤔

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 19

Happy Norwooz!
Tomorrow is the winter solstice and official start of spring ! Beyond its symbolic significance, it’s a time of cleaning. Let’s hope for this particular cleaning sometime soon (and those in the west who wish to act accordingly)!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 16

Even when they have time, the opponents, they don’t seem to know where to run !!!(schumer)

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 16

Yet everyday something new and unbelievable! WTH??!!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 13

Is the logic very different from equilibria involved in Pareto dominated strategies in infinitely repeated games?

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 12

there is an obscure old one that Ricky Vohra told us about by Anderson and Nash! I haven’t read it super carefully but it has some very powerful results!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 10

And ignoring any experts’ advice.

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 10

While I think invasion of Iraq was worse for the world than trump up to now, I think there is a difference here. That was done within the confines of the democratic institutions - majority U.S. population was behind it, and some experts. What’s happening now is outside of the democratic institutions

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · Mar 10

Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 10

My personal opinion is that Hamas is ultimately responsible for all the atrocities committed by Israel. Yet, how can we possibly punish a person for simply stating they are pro Hamas?

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 10

The thunderstorm of terrible U.S. government actions continues. Free speech is only applied selectively! I read the coverage of several outlets and it seems like the only crime here is supporting Hamas.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US authorities arrest Palestinian student protester at Columbia University, students say

The detention of graduate student Mahmoud Khalil appears to be one of the first efforts by Donald Trump to fulfill his promise to seek the deportation of some foreign students involved in the pro-Palestinian protest movement.

www.reuters.com

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 8

People on the left might be mad at me for saying this due to her position on abortion but isn't it better if we can have a position that doesn't fit the party line and that does not warrant wanting to punch each other?

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 8

That is why I found the fact that someone deemed to be on the very right voted without her politics is something to celebrate. I am sure she got some angry phone calls from the orange man or the genius with the buzzsaw! Maybe something positive to hang on to but maybe too early!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · Mar 8

To call myself angry these days whenever I open my browser and I am not reading a math theorem is an understatement! I find it extremely difficult to see anything positive. And I was able to in '17 despite being on the receiving end of the muslim ban!

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