Lust auf Experimente❓ Studierende der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf können an bezahlten, ökonomischen #Experimenten teilnehmen. Direkt auf dem Campus mit flexibler Online-Anmeldung recruitment.onlinelab.dice.hhu.de/de/

Hooray for MIT, my former home: It was the 1st elite university to reinstate standardized testing for applicants (best way to find poor smart students), and now becomes 1st to discard mandatory "diversity statements," which in reality impose intellectual uniformity. - UnHerd

Der nächste #hhuLehrpreis2024-Nominierte ist Prof. Dr. Hans-Theo Normann (Hans-Theo Normann) aus der Volkswirtschaftslehre Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Studierende sind von seinem Lehrstil, wirtschaftliche Theorie mit realen Problemen zu verbinden, überzeugt. 🔢👨‍🏫

Gary Charness, one of the most prolific experimental economists, has passed away. He was a terrific researcher, a gifted teacher, and an irreverent free thinker. Despite not publishing any papers before his 50th birthday he published over 100 articles. faculty.econ.ucsb.edu/~charness/

Syntactic ambiguity of the month (thanks, Sam Mehr!)

Today's prompt to restore law and order to your LaTeX preamble: adjust my preamble. remove redundant packages etc and make small comments about what each package does

The CIA manual on disrupting activist groups largely explains most meetings in academia.

Do you have to believe that the son of God died on a cross and was resurrected to redeem us from original sin, in order to be moral or to lead a meaningful life? Sweet Jesus, no! But that bizarre argument is becoming popular. It's eviscerated here by Matt Johnson Matt Johnson

New fascinating research formulating a theory of digital ecosystems, by Paul Heidhues,Mats Köster, and Botond Kőszegi. This theory strikes me as highly relevant for phenomena we've observed in digital markets - great to see more research on this ⬇️ tinyurl.com/39c5brtm

Algorithmic Cooperation |Bernhard Kasberger Simon Martin Hans-Theo Normann Tobias Werner #EconTwitter cesifo.org/en/publication…

Hauptsache reduziert!

Counterpoint:

The decline of extreme poverty has resumed after the Covid dip: September 2024 global poverty update from the World Bank: revised estimates up to 2024 blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/se… via World Bank

We are extremely happy and fortunate that Reinhold Kesler (follow him!) has joined us at Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf as a junior professor for law and economics. Check out Reinhold's research on competition in digital markets here reinholdkesler.github.io #kartellrecht

🎉 Thrilled to share that our paper "A New Sociology of Humans and Machines" is now published in Nature Human Behaviour! We explore the growing complexity of human-machine interactions and how they are reshaping economic and social dynamics. 🤖 Link: nature.com/articles/s4156…

The global decline in extreme poverty is one of humanity's greatest (and least known) achievements. Like many measures of flourishing, it backtracked during the pandemic, but the decline has resumed (though not fast enough).

📣 Call for papers Experimental Economics invites submissions for a special issue on Human-AI Interaction, opening on July 15th. Find out more: cup.org/3IgW1xS #OpenAccess Economic Science Association

Rudi Bachmann erklärt auf der Tagung Eucken Institut das ökonomische Quacksalbertum der #Trump-Regierung - spannend!

Gute Stimmung am Eucken Institut bei unserer Konferenz “Economy and Power”. Tim Krieger Lars P Feld Sabine Döring Anselm Küsters Justus Haucap

Returning from a dinner in Toronto with 22 high school classmates to honor a beloved teacher, Barbara Baird, 55 years after graduation. Going through our yearbook, I was struck by a message to the graduates from our principal: