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Brian Albrecht The implicit argument goes like this: “Economics isn’t a science. Therefore, although I haven’t studied it a lick, my unscientific opinions on economic topics are as good as those of persons who’ve spent a lifetime studying the subject.”

RIP Stan. Stan was my mentor and my friend. He was an outstanding economist, an outstanding policy maker, but even more importantly, a great human being. Science, commitment, honesty, and humility at the service of humankind. piie.com/publications/p…

I’m sharing my slide deck on the demographic future of humanity, 🔗 Slides: sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slide… prepared for the keynote address I will give tomorrow to the 7th EBRD and CEPR Research Symposium on “The Economics of Demographic Change”: 🔗 Symposium: ebrd.com/home/news-and-…

A jeśli dziś zastanawiasz się, według jakiej osi pękła Polska, to polecam rozmowę z prof. Michal Brzezinski z UW w ramach podcastu "Tłoczone z danych" GRAPE Z Joanną Tyrowicz sprawdzamy, jakie mamy różnice dochodowe w Polsce i co można z nimi zrobić. wyborcza.biz/biznes/7,15991…

New episode! George Selgin on Contextualizing the Great Depression and its Implications on Monetary Policy Today George Selgin (George Selgin) and David Beckworth on the role of the French in 20th-century monetary history. George Selgin, “I don’t want to blame everything on the

How substitutable are humans & compute in AI research -- "will we get bottlenecked by compute" -- is a key question for AI-2027-type scenarios Parker Whitfill and Cheryl Wu have interesting new work estimating that elasticity of substitution: x.com/cherylwoooo/st…

This is probably the worst prediction graph I've ever seen.

I want to respectfully (I hope) disagree with Kareem Carr, Statistics Person here. The quest for AGI is not comparable to earlier silicon valley chases for big data or big data analysis or in fact any other technological hype we have seen before. Space travel, nuclear fusion, AR -- none of them

This is mostly excellent. I have no quibble with 1 or 12, which others have been complaining about. (The econ profession would benefit from fewer, better papers.) But I do want to say something about 6. Sure, "don't insult", but there's a big gap between "insulting" and

KJ Watts Top three: 1) Cultural change (gender and sexual norms, etc.). 2) The educational arms race. 3) Delay in family formation due to high housing prices worldwide. Just to be clear, I am still thinking about the relative importance of each of these factors. The jury is still out.

That's bad, but this Samuelson graph is the world record worst prediction

I embraced being known as "et al."

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🌪Jak oddzielić przejściowy chaos w światowej gospodarce od realnych zagrożeń, żeby dobrze ocenić ryzyko i podjąć właściwe decyzje biznesowe? P. Żoch Piotr Żoch GRAPE, P. Bujak Piotr Bujak PKO Bank Polski, F. Hutten-Czapski Boston Consulting Group w debacie Dziennik Gazeta Prawna na Europejski Kongres Finansowy. Prowadzenie Marek Tejchman

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Dziś YT mi podrzucił podcast Igora Janke z Jakub Dymek i Ziemkiewiczem. Nie obyło się bez odwołań do elity, profesorków, dzieci profesorków etc. Z obu stron - żeby było jasne. No, więc zapraszam rzeczonych panów na kampus Ochota. Niech zobaczą jak żyją doktoranci. Niech się

Jak zniechęcić banki do finansowania przedsiębiorstw, szczególnie tych podejmujących ryzykowne projekty? Naliczać podatek bankowy od marży odsetkowej, jak to proponują ekonomiści Polska Sieć Ekonomii. Najprostszy sposób by uniknąć takiego podatku to kredytować państwo zamiast firm.

I'm posting this again because grading is driving me crazy. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zJE1Ho…