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Build more social housing! Open letter to Chancellor: england.shelter.org.uk/professional_r… FT coverage: on.ft.com/4hnfclt One-bed flats unaffordable for key workers across half of England

🎉Just accepted at Econometrica:🎉 "Adaptive maximization of social welfare" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/pap… (cc @ecmaeditors.bsky.social)

The publisher just sent the draft cover design for my forthcoming book. I’d be curious to hear what associations people have with the figure in the background (in light of the title)!

Today, the first results of our 3-year Basic Income Study in Germany were released publicly. Here some initial press coverage by ARD (In German): tagesschau.de/inland/innenpo… More details (and several papers) to come in the coming months - stay tuned!

Further coverage of our basic income study (by Rosa Rahimi): edition.cnn.com/2025/04/11/hea… Our project website: maxkasy.github.io/home/basic_inc… - further updates and papers will be posted here in the next couple of months!

🤖 Interested in machine learning, economics, and the state of AI?🤖 In September, I will teach a 1-week intensive version of my course on foundations of ML (maxkasy.github.io/home/ML_Oxford…) in our summer school. Apply here: ouess.web.ox.ac.uk/september-summ… Spread the word! Department of Economics, Oxford

How can we design algorithms that maximize social welfare, rather than profits? This paper merges multi-armed bandits and adversarial learning with optimal tax theory and welfare economics. Maximilian Kasy Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi @Rcolomboni econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

📽️ Recording of my talk on "Optimal Pre-Analysis Plans: Statistical Decisions Subject to Implementability" at the International Seminar on Selective Inference last week:📽️ drive.google.com/file/d/1kuVsgu… (Discussion by @jlibdoesecon.bsky.social)

Interesting interview on manosphere, misogyny, and monetary inequality: jacobin.com/2025/05/manosp…

AI maximizes the objectives of those who control the means of prediction. exhibit 674: wired.com/story/grok-whi…

Austrian Government Announces €50 Million to Progress Guaranteed Job… inet.ox.ac.uk/news/austrian-…

🤖 Software discovery of the week 🤖 I started using Polars for datawrangling in Python & am really impressed how fast it is handling large datasets (orders of magnitude faster than Pandas). Also, the syntax feels very natural, coming from dplyr in R: pola.rs

🤖 Software discovery of the week 🤖 I started using Polars for datawrangling in Python & am really impressed how fast it is handling large datasets (orders of magnitude faster than Pandas). Also, the syntax feels very natural, coming from dplyr in R: pola.rs

“Adaptive maximization of social welfare” - out now in the current issue of Econometrica: econometricsociety.org/publications/e… @EcmaEditors