Can’t believe I’ve lived far enough into the future to learn the first slur for robots

The first slur was toasters.

Why do job seekers reject job offers after EASY interviews? Watch my brilliant co-author Jason Sockin present our paper "Interviews" showing how interview difficulty signals match quality, including future colleagues. Easy interviews → more rejections & faster turnover.

📦 Can industrial policy work? Yes—the East Asian experience shows it can (at least partially). But its success rests on a key condition: labor control. 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇹🇼 Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan industrialized rapidly under authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes. Wages and

Kicking away the (wage) ladder.

I’ve been thinking about this op-ed and all the replies it received, and all I can think about is how many people misunderstand the economics profession. The general belief that economics is a homogenous group strikes me as mistaken. In fact, while I can’t say much about

Economics job market candidates p-hack. But, why? Well, doing so helps them get academic jobs. "We find evidence that marginally significant results in [job market papers] are associated with higher academic placement likelihoods."

Very proud of Lex for this achievement. It was a pleasure to supervise him. In fact, he needed very minimal guidance on his dissertation. Well done Lex!

BMJ just posted this systematic evidence review of 63 studies. It found "a lack of evidence supporting any association of e-cigarette use with cardiovascular disease." That cuts out 36% of all smoking-related deaths. Seems like something people who smoke would want to know.

Can't get more cosmopolitan than a man who eats foreign food and speaks both French and German. "le bosch".

It's shocking how much consensus there is amongst tax policy wonks and economists of Left and Right on the tax reforms the UK needs to boost growth & make the tax system fairer More shocking: they're reforms that are never mentioned by any politicians

How did Peter Mandleson get the US ambassador job after this? youtu.be/Ue1U9Se6jQI?si…

Look I have written a book which talks about why rankings are rubbish but objectively Durham is better than Oxbridge.

Wonder why they went for digital IDs to be mandatory rather than optional? Feels politically harder and just makes the cranks angry.

If i were running Britain I would simply have a big Excel spreadsheet.

I have yet to see any remotely reasonable or informed take against ID cards. A real litmus test.

I know what many academic economists have been wondering in the last couple of years: “Could ChatGPT ace my Economics exam/coursework?” We just launched a major Royal Economic Society report: “Rethinking Economics Assessments for a GenAI World” with Parama Chaudhury Cloda ,