At the inaugural political economy public lecture Professor Moses Shayo shares.."a lot of what economists have been studying in practice is social identity, they have simply not called it that". #socialidentity #economists #economics

Dear Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz, what else does it take to shut off Russian gas and implement harsher sanctions? What? Else? Does? It? Take?

They forgot Karl Marx... Oded Galor's widely ambitious attempt was one of the reasons I decided to study economics.

Sharing a new paper with Inbal Dekel. How group identity interacts with social learning. And how, when identities are polarized, the same behavior that is copied by some, leads others to do just the opposite. ssrn.com/abstract=43202…

Re-reading Milton Friedman in the context of the extensive institutional reforms advanced by the new govt in Israel. PM Netanyahu promises that the reforms will unshackle the economy. I think Milton would be concerned.

The IEA is co-organizing with the Israel Economic Association a discussion on The Economic Consequences of Government Control of the Judiciary: Lessons from Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Turkey on Feb. 7 iea-world.org/event/the-dism…

היום ב-19:00, וובינר של האגודה הישראלית לכלכלה בנושא "ההשלכות הכלכליות של פיקוח ממשלתי על מערכת המשפט: לקחים מהונגריה, פולין, רוסיה וטורקיה". בין הדוברים Dani Rodrik , Sergei Guriev וכלכלנים בכירים אחרים. יש עוד מספר מקומות מוגבלים. מהרו להירשם! iea-world.org/event/the-dism…

אבל כל הטענות השגויות, השקרים הקטנים וההתפלפלויות ימשיכו להסתובב כאן. נסביר, יאמרו "אבל לא הסברתם". נשיב ל-א', יאמרו "מדוע לא השבתם ל-ב'". נשיב ל-ב', יחזרו ל-א'. בסופו של דבר הם מצטברים למסך עשן שמסיח את הדעת מן המטרה האמיתית: שלטון בלא מעצורים

US Economists' statement regarding proposed Israeli reforms: statement-by-leading-us-economists.net

Shlomo Yitzhaki, one of my favorite people, has died. You may know his work on tax evasion or inequality or on properties and applications of the Gini coefficient, and much more scholar.google.com/citations?hl=e…. A bit more on his Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Yi…

Identity is endogenous.

Lately belonging to HUJI's econ department makes me especially proud. Thinking ahead, our department, led by chair Moshe Shayo, will run several efforts to help students affected by the ongoing war (reservists, family members of reservists, and people evacuated from their homes).

Do governments manipulate vital information? Duh. But can we quantify and compare the extent of manipulation across governments worldwide? After years of painstaking data collection led by Ariel Karlinsky we now have some answers. 🧵

An absolute gem of an article - required reading for anyone interested in the political economy of inequality! annualreviews.org/content/journa…

How can societies increase generalized trust? Trust is crucial for prosperity but varies dramatically & persistently around the world. Yet in an article just out Journal of Public Economics, Chagai Weiss Moses Shayo & I show that experimentally varying exposure to financial markets increases trust

Moses Shayo Saumitra Jha Gustav Agneman Esther Chevrot-Bianco Joe Henrich Ruben Durante Chagai Weiss On top of the devastating economic consequences of Trump's trade war, we should also be concerned about the broader global political and social aspects. Research across the social sciences shows that markets and trade foster cooperation, civicness, trust, and related traits. E.g.