FSU's Department of Economics will be actively hiring this year. We expect to have 4 tenure/tenure track lines and 2 specialized teaching lines. I will link the ads from the AEA JOE as they populate so you have official details:

Very relevant to @georgiatech's mission to advance technology and improve the human condition. It highlights how much America's success owes to a culture of progress, experimentation, curiosity + free exchange of ideas, much of which happens in our great research universities

Joel Mokyr won a Nobel prize today for showing that it isn’t enough to have inventions that work. You have to know how they work to have sustained growth. Think about that when you hear AI scientists continue to speculate but aren’t sure as to how generative AI models work.

history is sort of like theory - easy to sneer at in the short run, but also where a lot of the right-tail contributions come from in the long run

All 3 Nobel winners are foreign-born scholars who came to the US for their PhDs, & all 3 spent at least a good chunk of their careers in the US. This doesn't just benefit the US for "scoreboard" reasons. It's how a country innovates. Appropriate given the prize's subject matter!

📢 Georgia Tech’s Carter School of Public Policy is hiring multiple open-rank tenure-track faculty with expertise in science & innovation policy. We also welcome applicants whose work connects to our broader policy strengths. Apply: tinyurl.com/2d98mj5y

The Federal minimum wage was established in 1938. It was in effect for about 85 years. It has now, for better or worse, been effectively abolished.

Economists will look you dead in the face and call this science

Is this true Rights To Ricky Sanchez Podcast ?

Goldstein et al from here on out

Very cool JMP by Pier Paolo Creanza: the Gilded Era merger wave didn't kill innovation, it turbo boosted it. Large scale consolidation in early 20th century enabled large industrial labs, lower cost of capital, and more breakthrough patents pierpaolocreanza.github.io/website/creanz…

ICYMI, a very important conversation this morning. aei.org/events/parents… American Enterprise Institute Lives Cut Short

smiling through it all, can't believe this is my life!

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: CMFdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

Science fiction is real it’s just expensive

The #Economics Department University of Vermont is hiring! 🚨 We have two exciting opportunities to join our vibrant and collaborative community in beautiful Burlington, Vermont!

Walmart says Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper this year. It’s not. The basket just got smaller. That makes it the perfect lesson in how economists measure inflation. Read more: mondayeconomist.com/p/walmart-than…

Here is a showcase in the gap between the politics of immediacy and wise policy in housing. Housing affordability is playing a starring role in politics right now and for good reason. Many Americans, esp. young ppl, feel shut out of the housing market. In many cities, folks see

Georgia Tech proudly introduces the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy, housed in the newly renovated D.M. Smith Building. Honoring the Carters’ lifelong legacy of ethical leadership and public service, the School will inspire future changemakers in the reimagined