The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Dirò una cosa assai poco originale: se i mercati, in particolare in questo momento quello obbligazionario, non gli si rivoltano contro di fronte all'assalto alla Fed, Trump andrà fino in fondo. Gli unici checks and balances per lui verranno (ove mai) dal mercato.

If you'll be on the #EconJobMarket this coming year, you may want to join this webinar by @aereorg.bsky.social, titled, "Navigating Uncertain Waters: Advice for the Current Job Market," with Min Gong & @adrienneohler.bsky.social. 29 Sept 2025 @ 11am ET.

As if Ph.D. level is a good thing bbc.com/news/article...

Join us in congratulating Steven Berry (@steveberry.bsky.social), who was recently appointed the Sterling Professor of Economics—the highest academic honor a Yale professor can receive. Berry joined Yale in 1988 and is the inaugural director of the Yale Tobin Center: news.yale.edu/2025/07/22/b...

Reminded me of my own ceremony, a few years back

Even the most hardened haters will have to admit that yesterday was awesome at the CWC (Messi + PSG loss). Again establishing the ancestral truth: Fifa sucks, but football is awesome, and always triumphs.

Pitt Junior faculty rock!

Werner Von Braun would like a word. Also, do the Manhattan Project. Von Neumann, Fermi, Szilard, Wigner - and Einstein, whose letter got the ball rolling. To name just a few. Or American mathematics: Courant, Kac, Lax, Wald...

The description below, from this week's @adamprz.bsky.social Diary, strikes me as very plausible.

Italy: the country with the most colorful elections

Be a theorist. At worst, your theorem is wrong and everyone thinks you're a moron... Still better than everyone discovering you're a fraudster and a cheat.

Be a theorist. At worst, your theorem is wrong and everyone thinks you're a moron... Still better than everyone discovering you're a fraudster and a cheat.

Ying and Yang?

Join us in congratulating Steven Berry on his election to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on a U.S. scientist or engineer! Read the announcement here: tobin.yale.edu/news/250503/...

#REStud_Tour 2025 started today in the University of Padova @dsea-unipd.bsky.social . Check out the excellent JMPs of this year's tourists! economia.unipd.it/en/restud-to...

I'm looking for recent papers applying mechanism design to AI/ML. I'm most interested in tools from mechanism design that help solve problems in designing and evaluating AI systems. If you think it fits, please share!

In the 1960s and '70s, The Worst People in the World (TM) didn't want to vaccinate Africans (etc) because they said it would lead to overpopulation. Then we did a bunch of research, and it turns out that reducing child mortality actually reduces population growth. 1/

I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it. meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...

great thread

Pitt Junior faculty rocks

Forthcoming in the AER: "Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan" by Muhammad Yasir Khan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Affanculo l’uomo ragno www.wittgenstein.it/2025/04/04/a...

Couldn't have said it better

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

Intro game theory question: if your competitors' prices increase by 20% will you keep your prices constant?

After teaching from 8am to 6:15pm I can hardly stand on my feet. Hats off to you @booker.senate.gov

Thread: Obviously I'm very pleased at this recognition, but I'm sharing this for other reasons. 1st, many have the impression that people who have been successful professionally have walked a straight path - got the right degree, right 1st job, succeeded right away.

Describe the societal relevance of your project

A welcome distraction from my Dad. How to make a great cacio e pepe 😋https://foodscienceinstitute.com/2025/03/26/cacio-e-pepe-cheese-and-pepper-pasta/

I read this in @adamprz.bsky.social 's substack and it is a quote from Peter Drucker that I do not seem to be able to get out of my brain

Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start! Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall). Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768 Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!

Economist Roberto Serrano has been honored with the King of Spain Economics Award 2024 by King Felipe VI! His groundbreaking work in game theory & economic research has earned him global recognition. A well-deserved accolade! 🏆📚 #EconSky Read the full article here 👇 inomics.com/news/roberto...

Pitt and CMU are competing in a robotic triage challenge with the goal of shortening response times so disaster victims can receive medical attention within the "golden hour," the critical time period immediately following a traumatic injury www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

Nice thread on our county's 2024 election results

What he says

Seriously, WTF www.npr.org/sections/sho...

The power of common knowledge

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

Science, folks. Science. This is wonderful news.

Beware the Ides of March

This is quite good www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

NRA Gives Dead Schoolchildren ‘F’ Rating

More than anything else, Trump loves winning. Yet he has already positioned America to lose the 21st century, in three simple steps:
1. Alienate your friends.
2. Destroy your business environment.
3. Slaughter your golden goose (i.e., science and research). wapo.st/41iUzAW

I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t... The destruction of politics is coming for the economy

Linked individual data using WWII Army and administrative tax records show mixed impacts of service on long-run economic outcomes for different racial and ethnic groups, from Sergio E. Barrera, Andreas Ferrara, Price V. Fishback, and Misty L. Heggeness https://www.nber.org/papers/w33382