This is heartbreaking.

1/N The “class ceiling” in elite US jobs is real. Sam Friedman & Daniel Laurison find that even when people from working-class backgrounds reach top professions, they still earn about $20,000 less per year than privileged-origin colleagues... 🧵

Fact: The avg age of NASA’s mission control team during the Apollo era was 27— they put humans on the moon. Young people bring a force of curiosity and creativity that can disrupt the status quo. If we’re serious about cutting waste in gov spending, let’s not turn away new minds

Un bambino di 8 anni preso a botte e bottigliate a Roma da un egiziano solo perché indossava un Kippah. L’antisemitismo è la nuova realtà in Europa, ovviamente nel silenzio generale. Per lui immagino che non ci saranno manifestazioni vero? E immagino che fra poco si dirà che

Osaka, Japan

Forthcoming at the Journal of Political Economy: We find that consumer product markups increased more than 25 percent from 2006 to 2019. One contribution is an approach to estimate IO-style models at scale, yielding flexible consumer preferences and estimates of marginal costs.

Quando vi dicono che studiare (e laurearsi in) Economia Politica a Giurisprudenza non serve, ecco, non ascoltateli. (Certo, avere anche un PhD in Law & Economics aiuta. Ma mai come scegliere bene il prof con cui laurearti... 😎) Grande Gabriele Paolini! 💪💪💪 lanazione.it/massa-carrara/…

Morning routine

Sam Altman admits that saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT is wasting millions of dollars in computing power.

The marketing for this movie is crazy

New 🧵: 18 scholars submit an amicus brief to the US District Court in US v Google emphasizing that remedies must address proven harm to competition and consumer welfare, not punish success or stifle innovation. 🔗 in comments. 1/8

Skeleton view of Stingray

Westerners were told mass migration was necessary because migrants would be paying for their pensions. Now they're being told they have to work until 70, because the migrants aren't even paying for themselves.

Columbia University “protester” who was arrested on campus was: 1️⃣ In a group chat with Hamas 2️⃣ Not a student! 3️⃣ Firearm training 4️⃣ Arrested with $750K (at only 20 yrs old)

Countries with fiscal surpluses in 2023: 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇳🇴 Norway 🇬🇷 Greece 🇦🇺 Australia Countries with fiscal surpluses in 2024: 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇳🇴 Norway 🇬🇷 Greece 🇦🇺 Australia 🇦🇷 ARGENTINA

Immagina di essere un docente o uno studente di Università di Pisa e di voler fare una cosa del tutto inusuale, superflua, quasi arrogante. Cioè leggere un articolo su una rivista scientifica. Ti colleghi al sistema bibliotecario di ateneo e... questa è la situazione. #tagli #AD1343