🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 Hey #EconTwitter! We are now accepting submissions for Season 10 of the Applied Young Economist Webinar! Deadline: Friday, 28 February 2025 Details below⬇️

Just seeing the RCT 'scandal' brewing among econs again. This is not a question about some bad apples or some instances of malpractice. The RCT industry has been completely distorted from its inception in Econ and this is closely tied to the incentive structure of the discipline.

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Forthcoming NBER Economics of AI & Political Economy volume. Draft chapters here: nber.org/books-and-chap…

Timely reading

Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi, winners of the Best Animated Short Film for IN THE SHADOW OF THE CYPRESS at the 97th #Oscars!

VANCE 1, RUBIO 0 It sounds cynical, but a professional political economist must be cynical. The White House showdown was not about Ukraine, and Donald J. Trump was not an actor. It was about Republican nomination in 2028, and President Trump was a battlefield. Vice-president

AYEW is back with Season 10!🎊🎉 Join us TOMORROW (12 March) for the Gender Economics Workshop at 11:00am GMT to listen to sarthak joshi (Warwick Economics), Yifan Lyu (Stockholm School of Economics) and Akanksha Vardani (Columbia Economics) Sign up for Zoom details: monash.edu/business/impac…

The myth that “education” will defeat populism and strengthen democracy is dangerous and is an internal threat to democratic resilience. We won’t save liberal democracy by placing ourselves on this pedestal of philosopher kings. Let me explain: 1/🧵👇

TOMORROW (9 April): AYEW Culture & Economic History Workshop! Join us at 11:00am BST to listen to Lang Luo (Peking University), Victoria Biagi (University of Liverpool) and Luca_vitale (New York University) Sign up for Zoom details: monash.edu/business/impac…

Co-director Daron Acemoglu explains why the centralized nature of the social media ecosystem, which puts an enormous amount of power in the hands of a few platforms, is a threat to democracy — and why AI may be headed in the same direction.

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with Gastón Nievas Offidani [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…

Israel’s attack on Iran and Iran’s retaliation are already claiming civilian lives. Stop defending one side’s “rights” while ignoring UN Charter violations and the killing of innocent people. The world needs less hypocrisy—and more respect for diplomacy and international law.

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#زن_زندگی_آزادی پدر و پدر سالاری نمیخواد .

🚨 Cool field experiment on #EconTwitter: Fake PhD student bots followed 6,920 users. Follow-back rates revealed clear bias: ▫️ +12% for White vs. Black students ▫️ +21% for top-tier vs. lower-ranked schools ▫️ +25% for women vs. men Racial gap persisted even at elite schools.

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 Hey #EconTwitter! We are now accepting submissions for Season 11 of the Applied Young Economist Webinar! Deadline: Sunday, 5 Oct 2025 Submission: forms.gle/yrKSLZkZ1RiN8D… (Email us your paper if you cannot access it) Details below⬇️

99% of everything that works in practice is calculus and linear algebra. The other 1% doesn't really work.

Great news! I like this in particular because economic history has decisively left the ghetto -- with the Acemoglu/Robinson/Johnson price last year and this one, it's clearly recognized as an equally valid domain in which to play, not this weird subfield nobody cares about.