I suspect ChatGPT will kill MOOCs and further raise demand for elite (and elitist) higher education with tutorials and all kinds of expensive labor that university administrators will hate.

Abbildung des Katapult-Magazins zur aktuellen Dürre in Deutschland. Die Karte zeigt die Dürre im Gesamtboden bis ca. 1,80 m über die letzten 30 Tage. Die Daten stammen von Dürremonitor des @ufz.de.

Das Känguru erklärt Marc-Uwe Kling in einem Satz (Achtung! Schachtelsatz epischen Ausmaßes!) , was in unserer Gesellschaft falsch läuft. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTQH...

Happy 81st birthday to Brazilian mathematician Marilda Sotomayor! She has been a trailblazer in the area of game theory concerned with matching markets, which she started studying under David Gale in the 1980s, and subsequently brought back to Brazil. #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth 🧮

UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR

Many of Donald Trump’s actions appear senseless to onlookers, writes Jonathan Rauch. But there is a political strategy that explains exactly why he does what he does: patrimonialism. theatln.tc/ZLzRyGHe

Nach dem Lesen dieses Artikels ist „Bleiben und Kämpfen“ zwar umso wichtiger, aber auch leichter gesagt als getan. Gibt es eine Rechtsschutzversicherung, die auch im Verteidigungsfall zahlen würde? www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Twitter or Bluesky? How about neither. Nate Silver sagt da viele sehr sinnvolle Dinge. www.natesilver.net/p/twitter-or...

Der bockigste Punschstand am coolsten Platz Wiens wurde bis Faschingsende verlängert 🎉 #SpeisenohneGrenzen bietet am Yppenplatz neben Punsch und Glühwein großartige Köstlichkeiten an. Schau vorbei! 📆 Offen bis 04. März 2025 📍 Speisen ohne Grenzen am Yppenplatz www.fraubock.at/de/bock-auf-...

In our January Policy Brief, SIEPR Director @nealemahoney.bsky.social, along with @weakinstrument.bsky.social, points to data to shine a light on economic policy issues sure to be front and center in the next four years. Read it here: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

‘Each of Polanyi’s sweeping claims tends to make modern historians’ hackles rise, the interpretation of the industrial revolution in particular.’ Stefan Collini on Karl Polanyi’s ‘The Great Transformation’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

34,88 % der Kärntner:innen haben abgestimmt: 51,4% sind für das Verbot!

Never seen the beautiful maths inside a red cabbage before

The time of the year has come where we, economists, think a lot of our colleague @jwaldfog.bsky.social #EconSky

Die endlose Causa um den Bau eines neuen Hallenbads in Klagenfurt ist um eine Facette reicher. Das Bad soll nach langem Hin und Her am Südring errichtet werden. Es gibt einen Feststellungsbescheid, wonach keine UVP nötig sei. Dieser Bescheid wurde nun ausgerechnet vom ehemaligen […]

Nerd alert Just ordered one [link gets you and me a referral credit] www.traintrackr.io/refer/L1HxZj...

#EconBluesky Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, new volume 9, Special Issue in Honour of Vincent P. Crawford, available at www.mechanism-design.org @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social @york.ac.uk @t8el.bsky.social @skominers.bsky.social @vincecrawford.bsky.social @hexxxeh.bsky.social

... the xkcd about "correct horse battery staple" definitely changed the way I think about passwords... (Though I def remember more stories from decades ago than dumb little details from a few days ago)

Nice winter walk amid the pre-vaccine graves

"Shared prosperity has only occurred during some periods of human history, and it [has] never been an automatic process. Inclusivity is key." | Watch @dacemoglumit.bsky.social's speech (in English) at the Nobel Prize Banquet #EconSky www.svtplay.se/video/eXYgzr...

Here it is! The amazing "political economics of environmental sustainability" program, organized by Partha Dasgupta and yours truly. You can apply to attend here: www.gsb.stanford.edu/events/polit...

Today all dk residents over the age of 18 are asked by the government to take a stand on organ donation and register their own donor status. This is possible at low cost due to a digital mailbox for each resident. Would love to see the data on change of status... #econsky #healtheconsky

Life’s gift: PhD students!

Full-text of my talk on how we should pay for driving, why we need to go beyond worries about loss of tax revenue and think about justice and why the amount we spend on cars and how we spend that is the big question we don't talk enough about. www.linkedin.com/posts/greg-m...

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Behavioral economists, please help me understand this. #EconSky thehardtimes.net/music/fugazi...

Coming to the university libraries near you... a special issue of the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design in honour of @vincecrawford.bsky.social! I'll add a guide to all the papers that were mainly inspired by and reflect Vince's early work when the issue is online in the coming month.

"Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, [account] for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally." theconversation.com/car-tyres-sh...

I’ll participate in the latter…

Perplexity‘s not perfect…

A beautiful winter morning in Kyiv. The war has taught me to never take it for granted that I can embrace this beauty in the warmth of my apartment. Thank you defenders and energy emergency workers!

Exciting spring schedule for the online Learning Evolution Games (LEG) seminar thelegproject.wordpress.com/leg-seminar/ 11/3: Arvid Ågren 25/3: Cuimin Ba 8/4: Kai Barron 22/4: Jonathan Libgober 6/5: Takako Fujiwara-Greve 20/5: Jörgen Weibull 3/6: Jonathan Newton 17/6: Tamar Friedlander

Look at little baby faced Steve Albini and friends here! @electricalwsop.bsky.social

35% of the vote for hard right in Austrian state of Styria; every other relevant group loses.