Finished Of Boys and Men by Richard V. Reeves. Just excellent and so necessary. Covers some of the themes I wrote about in my book. 1/ The bottom line: the left is missing the crisis happening w men today and we need to talk about it openly and without fear.

There's nothing substantive to admire about Senator Tuberville. But the real problem here isn't him. It's an ossified legislative body in which one eccentric member can blockade hundreds of needed government appointments. nytimes.com/2023/07/10/us/…

My bottom line for inviting you to be dedicated to the economics profession like I have, it's extremely rewarding, and we need you. Look at the world we live in, it needs a lot of support from people who have a great empathy for humans, said Mary C. Daly.

Though, to be sure, former US President John Tyler sided with the Confederacy, which sought by violence to break up the United States.

A great thread.

Would up cutting this for length but it surprised me that LA didn't do better on the best-food-in-US lists.

W/ Biden and Trump both courting auto workers in MI today, a quick refresher on auto industry jobs created/month under recent presidents. *Clinton: 1,800 *Bush: -5,800 *Obama: 2,800 *Trump (pre-Covid): 600 *Trump (total): -200 *Biden: 4,000

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and F.D. Roosevelt were all clearly better and more consequential than Biden IMHO. To be sure, it's early innings. Biden is blindingly superior to Trump and W. But better than Obama? Explain, please.

… though that is hardly the case in 2023 USA. (You can look it up in plenty of credible household surveys.)

Note: Primary schooling became mandatory in Massachusetts in 1852; in New York State in 1853. By 1918, elementary schooling was compulsory in all 48 states. It seems doubtful Biden had anything to do with it.

Bob Solow was a true intellectual giant with pathbreaking work on growth, macro fluctuations, and wage setting. He was generous, incisive, and insightful and taught me both micro and macro theory at MIT. I never stopped learning from him. May his memory be a blessing.

By "failing" do you mean "failing to find a significant effect of the tested treatment"? If so, I think we differ on the goal and scientific rationale for a randomized controlled trial.

Wait: I thought Nixon needed a pardon to preclude the possibility he’d be charged for his biggest known infractions … the cover-up of the Watergate crimes.

I’m mystified. Why is it bad or some kind of danger when experts and nonexperts are reminded of the limits of our current knowledge? More precisely, it is worthwhile to be reminded that even well-intentioned and highly informed experts make erroneous predictions.

Happy birthday to Albert Hirschman, who would be 109 today. Hirschman—anti-fascist, resistance hero, later a development economist—may be the most interesting person to ever take up the profession. 🧵 and blog post on his remarkable life and work.

Krugman is right about the economy and the people are wrong nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The last claim seems very improbable, since … checks notes … the Nixon Admin. *did* end the draft and the Congress & Ford Admin. *did* ultimately stop funding the war & *did* allow So. Vietnam to collapse. What am I missing?

This merely shows that anti-war activism took a long time to achieve its goal, which was to end the war. Would US commitment to the So. Vietnamese have ended *without* all the anti-war activism? Excuse me for my deep skepticism.

Wage insurance, which subsidizes trade-displaced workers reemployed at a lower wage, shortens unemployment durations, increases long-term earnings, and is self-financing, from Ben Hyman, Brian K. Kovak, and Adam Leive nber.org/papers/w32464

A truly lovely profile of one of the most insightful, thoughtful, and kind economists in the world: David Autor. wsj.com/economy/david-…