1/n Last week, Student Workers of Columbia reached a tentative agreement for their contract with Columbia University. While graduate workers at Columbia still have to vote on their final contract, they won amazing contract provisions that are raise the standards for graduate workers everywhere.

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Interested in industrial policy and trade? Come work with me as a research associate! We will be investigating supply chains, decarbonizing heavy industry, subsidy conditionalities, USICA, and more! Please share this ad widely!! easyapply.co/a/6fc99e9d-42c…

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I’m Josh Shapiro — and I’m the Attorney General who stopped Donald Trump from undermining Pennsylvania’s 2020 election. Now I’m running for Governor, and I need your help to win this race. Can you retweet this and follow us to help our campaign reach our goal of 200k followers?

"The #euro is significantly undervalued from #Germany’s perspective [...] This is likely at least partially responsible for a trend of #deindustrialisation in the #EuroArea’s periphery economies [...]" Juan Antonio Montecino writes in this new Policy Study by FEPS & Columbia's Initiative for Policy Dialogue 👇

Neoclassical theory: labor market determines the real wage (division of surplus b/w worker and firm). Central banker: labor market determines price-inflation.

What @arjun_jayadev Amit Basole and colleagues are doing through this workshop in mentoring, pedagogy and creating an international and supportive community of researchers is truly special.

Ready to learn something new this August? Sign up for my free 6-week online course on the Economics of AI #EconOfAI - highly recommended for econ grad students interested in macro/labor/governance/etc coursera.org/learn/economic… @Coursera UVA Economics Brookings Econ #econtwitter

John Kenneth Galbraith (in Affluent Society, 1958) about the reception of those who challenge the conventional wisdom in economics. This is evident every time someone who isn’t an economist tries to criticize economics. The more things change, sadly, the more they stay the same.

Has wealth inequality evolved differently in Europe than in the US over the last five decades? If so, why? A 🧵:

New: "Reserve accumulation, growth and financial crises" by Gianluca Benigno, Luca Fornaro & Martin Wolf. Fast-growing emerging countries run current account surpluses and accumulate foreign reserves. This article presents a theory of export-led growth. doi.org/10.1016/j.jint… 1/4

The crisis in economics is the persistent view that the economy is overheated when it lowers Black unemployment. This characterization rests on the assumption that Black workers are lower quality and raise unit labor costs. Not that discrimination is the cost being taken out.

Check out the program for the 3rd workshop on International Capital Flows & Financial Policies! To be held in person at IMF on Oct. 17. Please RT if interested! Registration link: imf.org/en/News/Semina… Virtual attendees need to register too.

It's that time of year again when I am looking for Econ PhD candidates who would like to do a post-doc at Columbia University under my supervision. Please apply by November 24, 2022. aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

Including the perspectives of workers is a crucial step for AI systems in the workplace to avoid harms and benefit society, argues an excellent new Partnership on AI report by Stephanie Bell on "AI and Job Quality" partnershiponai.org/paper/ai-and-j… - check it out!

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Thanks so much for organizing Jessica Leight Bilge Erten

🧵 (1/12) My new paper, “Capital Taxation and Market Power”, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…, argues that market power makes the entity level of tax especially important, that we should consider graduated corporate rates, and that intl. tax reform is essential to that vision.