Maybe we shouldn't have trusted the cigarette companies when they praised the health benefits of cigarettes

Elephan Gogh

America now has 935 billionaires with $8.1 trillion in collective wealth — a 20% increase from 2024. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 935 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Many of us are struck by the combination of cleverness and pure inanity of many AI answers. Clever on some elaborate questions but not able to perform elementary fractions for instance. Now I better understand the reason: msukhareva.substack.com/p/gpt-52-and...

Interesting. Do we have solid evidence that this is also the case in practice? I'd be happy to show whatever is the evidence in class.

¡¡¡100MWh battery!!!

Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Yes! Yes, we are hiring! Two positions are opened, one in International Trade. The other one in Microeconomics. Full time. Great colleagues. Great location. Have you already applied ? www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... #job #economics #professorship @ulbruxelles.bsky.social

Let's look at the DATA! Not opinion, ideology, or politics. DATA and science. Climate change is not a hoax and the impacts are dire, costly and increasing. We have solutions to stem rising temperatures. We need investment, science-based policies and action 🧪🌎 climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/...

How it started // How it’s going

My paper "Voter Information and Distributive Politics" has been accepted for publication at the AEJ: Micro 🥳 Ungated version here: osf.io/preprints/so...

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On MAGA International, from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Today’s econ seminar featured Ruben Durante presenting amazing work on the effect of GenAI on demand for news (joint with @filipecampante.bsky.social and @ananyasen.bsky.social)

More Award News from #EEA25 Congrats to Julia Cagé & David Yanagizawa-Drott for their 2025 Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation Award, presented to them today www.eeassoc.org/awards/yrjo-...

George Akerlof is just as sharp as usual! When Trump Fires the Ref, What Game Are We Playing? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

Horrible migrants are killing Europe, says horrible migrant arriving in Europe

That's interesting : in an RCT, giving AI tools to developers actually slowed them down ! And yet, they are convinced they went faster.

Sad but seems right. Do far we still are dwarf Davids claiming to be Goliath

Time to buy pop corn (made in the EU) and watch the show👇🏼

Read more about the role that vaccines have played in reducing child mortality: ourworldindata.org/vaccines-chi...

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

Keep going, @valentimvicente.bsky.social !

The growth of RW's clout is excellent for science, integrity, and general awareness. Kudos for all that @retractionwatch.com ! #science #openscience

open chart, keep scrolling down www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

💡 Mesurer l’évitement fiscal & environnemental: Notre collègue @mathieupar.bsky.social, finaliste du Prix du meilleur jeune économiste 2025, revient sur le pouvoir de marché des multinationales, l’optimisation fiscale et la taxe carbone aux frontières. @lemonde.fr 👇 www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

Just read this one: sound reset on what rankings do. #econsky theconversation.com/from-doing-b...

“Department of Government Efficiency.”

Wow! Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S. The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles. VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.

New chart just dropped.

For the @economist.com, I wrote about the Le Pen verdict. In liberal democracies, the law needs to be applied even if that strengthens the far right. But here, we should not just assume that this will help the RN. On the contrary. It's a good moment for democracy. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Julia Cagé & David Yanagizawa-Drott awarded the 2025 Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics for their important contributions on political economy & the media, based on deep historical research in France, the USA, and Africa. Full info ℹ️https://eeassoc.org/awards/yrjo-jahnsson-award

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

Please take a moment to watch this video. Says it as it is. So refreshing.

We are honored to honor Gérard! Gérard's insights and high standards have strongly influenced my research and what I want to transmit to my own students today. Register promptly ! 👇🏼

A great contribution to the question whether ESG rules prevent investing into defence by @smerler.bsky.social for @bruegel.bsky.social www.bruegel.org/analysis/sus...

Policymaking under Influence is now online (doi.org/10.1093/jleo...) at the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization! 🙂

That's the very definition of open secret 🤣

This is a very interesting experiment. Point 1: it works. Point 2: We have no clue about long-term effects. I knew my way a lot better before GPS. I unlearned that: can there be negative side-effects on human expertise? -- 1/2

📊 Transatlantic clean investment monitor 3: battery manufacturing 🔋 Check out the third installment of Bruegel and Rhodium Group's transatlantic clean investment monitor. 🔗 Analysis here, first published 6th March: buff.ly/UVumpW9 #EconSky

Soviet joke Yuri Gagarin’s daughter answers the phone. ‘No, mummy and daddy are out,’ she says. ‘Daddy’s orbiting the earth, and he’ll be back tonight at 7 o’clock. But mummy’s gone shopping for groceries, so who knows when she’ll be home.’ (Source: Francis Spufford) 🧪

Difficile mais nécessaire à entendre... www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lh...

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Let this sink in.

Investors dare to imagine a world beyond the dollar - If the EU could seize this moment and issue joint debt, it would tap in to a deep well of willing buyers keen to trim US exposure. on.ft.com/4iHtsH1 via @FT

While the #trumpetshow is a looming catastrophe for the USA and much of the world, it (reluctantly) puts the EU at the center of global #safety, #security, and #health policies. Let's hope it's up to the task: www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...