The most memorable experiences are suffused with emotion — not extra features or value for money —Stefan Thomke, Harvard Business School → mitsmr.com/2M32oX9

En 1925 las noches previas al Día de la Independencia, los edificios que rodean la Plaza de Mayo son engalanados luminicamente en sus frentes en honor a la fecha patria.

Mercado Libre: an iconic example of effective leadership in creating and sustaining organizational growth. Check out this new case study. gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-resear…

Hoy es el día mundial de la #JusticiaSocial. Creemos en la participación y la auto organización popular, en la democratización de las estructuras del Estado, en que es necesario redistribuir poder en la sociedad, y en que el trabajo es la mejor política social.

Now this is fascinating: the public learns fast! Views of media exaggeration of the coronavirus threat do change rapidly with direct experience (see Italy). Thanks to @benatipsosmori for the data source: ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-… ipsos.com/sites/default/…

There are 3 global datasets on #COVID19: the WHO, Johns Hopkins Uni, & the European CDC We brought the data from all 3 together to allow you to compare the data – globally and for every country in the world. We also explain why we stopped using WHO data. ourworldindata.org/covid-sources-…

Can the negative supply shock from this pandemic lead to a demand deficient recession? Yes. Together with the brilliant Veronica Guerrieri, Guido Lorenzoni and Ludwig Straub, I explore the conditions for this to happen in this new paper. economics.mit.edu/files/19351 (start thread)

lanacion.com.ar/opinion/reinve… Reinventar la participación usando Design Thinking y Behavioral Insights. Mi columna de hoy en LA NACION

"Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo". Gabriel García Márquez camina por Buenos Aires en 1967 con la fotógrafa Sara Facio, durante su única visita.

New on WID.world: Why is Europe more equal than the US? by T. Blanchet, L. Chancel, A. Gethin. Predistribution explains most of the difference: more equal education, bargaining power, wealth concentration, etc. Can EU reinforce this or not? wid.world/news-article/w…

The #NobelPrize committee couldn't reach Paul Milgrom to share the news that he won, so his fellow winner and neighbor Robert Wilson knocked on his door in the middle of the night.

I've long explored the tension bet. human nature, which makes us the same as medieval despots, tinpot stronmen, & mad crowds, vs. Enlightenment ideas & institutions, which make progress possible. Always saddened when the latter appear to be pushed back.

Together, the psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman made the world a better place. nyer.cm/bHfQB7F

The penalty shootout in football is the essence of performing under pressure. I spent 5 years of my life studying the Psychology of this event. Here's what I learned, which can also help understanding it in the current Euros/Copa America. Thread based on 10 of our studies. (1/13)

This study is getting attention again, which is right - it's one of the best and most relevant studies on changing behavior that's come out recently.

I respectfully disagree. While the “ultimate” macro questions can’t be tackled this way, the tools for estimating cause/effect have helped us provide evidence for mechanisms and discipline macro models. Lots of recent papers are in this vein, in particular by young macro folks…

Big results from the 10-year follow-up to Banerjee-Duflo-Sharma's ultrapoor asset transfer experiment in West Bengal. 2 cows + 30 weeks of a subsistence stipend = 20% higher consumption a DECADE later. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Also, people should read this C Thi Nguyen paper on Twitter. It's brilliant. philpapers.org/rec/NGUHTG

I coined the term "protopia" to describe my preferred future, and it's been taken up by others in different ways, which is great. It's now made it to the New York Times, which is even better. nytimes.com/2023/03/14/spe…

GPT4 is repeating 2nd hand material abt "Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails" w/o knowing what the book is about. It is not about Fat Tails but CONSEQUENCES on stat methods, the law of large (medium) numbers, & decisions under uncertainty. Also makes economists' elementary