[1/4] Merci Guillaume 2 Calignon Nathalie Silbert Les Echos pour cette interview sur mon livre à paraître ce vendredi, qui analyze combien le retard éducatif français et les problèmes d'orientation scolaire et professionelle nous coûtent en termes d'innovation, de croissance et d'inégalités👇

I’m excited to share News Déjà Vu (newsdejavu.github.io), which uses a custom large language model to retrieve historical news articles that are the most similar to modern news articles. (1/4)

Empirical political economy’s impact on political philosophy. Nice full page article by The Economist on our recent paper on the origins of government. Article: economist.com/finance-and-ec… Paper: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… Interview: aeaweb.org/research/econo…

Very nice animation of our recent paper, thank you econimate! Paper: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… Economist article: economist.com/finance-and-ec… Interview: aeaweb.org/research/econo…

What led to Iraq’s 9thC collapse? Superb paper by Bob Allen & Leander Heldring Rulers struggled for succession, & needed to pay troops, then exploited peasants, who refused to pay taxes. Canals were not maintained Salivation rose, wheat yields fell link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨Job alert🚨Edoardo Teso and I are looking for a predoc, for 1 or 2 years, to start immediately. Work with us on political economy, economic history, and machine learning. Apply here: facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MTkzNA== PREDOC.org

We've released a new dataset, Newswire arxiv.org/abs/2406.09490 2.7M unique newswires reproduced 32M+ times over a century (1878-1977). Articles have location and topic tags and person ids (from Wikipedia). Fun fact: see the prohibition related crime spike in the 1920s

How A River Changing Course Led People To Form The First Governments. Research in AEA Journals from Robert Allen, Mattia C. Bertazzini & Leander Heldring via @forbes NYU Abu Dhabi Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN Kellogg School forbes.com/sites/jeffoppe…

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

James Robinson (Harris Policy) and I are hiring one or more predocs starting Summer '25. Come work with us on political economy, economic history, and AI. Link: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External… PREDOC.org