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November 7.

This book explains so much about the United States and is going to be important

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George Will gives an entire column to the irrefutable George Selgin and FALSE DAWN, from UChicagoPress: "Kindred spirits on the left and right should read “False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933-1947.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

I paid off my student loans today

ICE on Hyde Park Boulevard yelling at kids from Kenwood Academy

On October 28, scholar and author of ‘The Second Estate’ Ray D. Madoff and comedian Gary Gulman visit NYPL to talk taxes and how the American tax code privileges those who already have the most. Register now to join us in person. on.nypl.org/48KcMwK

Hayek was mostly humorless, but there’s a funnier version of this in HATE THE GAME by Daryl Fairweather, PhD | Chief Economist

This baby girl was just found on UChicago campus! No chip, extremely lovey and calm. DM me to meet her!!

𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐒: The video of the presentation at UniversityofChicago organized by Becker Friedman Institute for Economics is out. Take a look! 📕 UChicago Economics UChicagoPress youtu.be/Hp1il0qCGDA?si…

Pre-order "The Great Global Transformation" The Great Global Transformation: The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Our annual Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab The University of Chicago "One Lab One Read" celebrated the fantastic new book "Unforgiving Places" by my longtime friend and colleague Jens Ludwig.

What a treat to be the first guest on the new Kara Miller podcast! We talked about the class gap in marriage & why it matters; how economics & culture shape marriage patterns; how more research is needed & why I moved to Notre Dame Economics @ am launching Strengthening Families Research Initiative. Have a listen-

I loved - and hated - this conversation w/ the fantastic Ray Madoff Boston College Law about how the very rich have "seceded" from taxation. How do surgeons pay 40-50% of their money in taxes but the wealthiest pay, essentially, no taxes. And where is this taking us? Watch the full convo

excited that _Greenback Empire_ has entered in-press copy-editing stage. will come out in early Fall 2026.