Tim Bresnahan
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Economist, old guy. Interested in competition and innovation econs.
https://tbres.su.domains/
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Severin Borenstein
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Disheartening to see anyone taken seriously who says US (or California) oil production protects consumers from Iran war impact. Producers argue world market sets the price. Correct! Oil price reflects value, not proximity, as recent gasoline price jumps show.
www.foxnews.com/video/639043...
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Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ policy shields consumers from Iran-driven oil shocks, economist says | Fox News Video
Unleash Prosperity co-founder Stephen Moore says record U.S. oil and gas production will help counter Middle East turmoil and prevent a spike in gas prices in the wake of recent Iran strikes.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6390433018112
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A very interesting essay by Dean Ball, alas on the other site, about the end of the US Republic and the Hegseth/Anthropic dispute. @deanwb.bluesky.social
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Aaron Sojourner
4 days ago
If you haven't yet, check out Friends of @usbls.bsky.social lovely, new website design. Thanks so much to @markgsheppard.com for applying his skills, efforts, & professional service to this! While you're there, read about recent updates & join.
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This website is so cool it may induce another wave of data ferret nostalgia, but good
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Thank you. Fabulous initiative.
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Al Roth
4 days ago
The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is once again planning its long-running summer school in Economic Theory (which was skipped last year, amidst war with Iran...)
#econsky
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Summer school in Economic Theory in Jerusalem (28 June- 7 July 2026)
https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/summer-school-in-economic-theory-in.html?m=1
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Christian Zimmermann
4 days ago
About now is a great time to make sure your RePEc author profile is up to date for the February statistics.
authors.repec.org
#RePEc
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RePEc Author Service
https://authors.repec.org/
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Al Roth
5 days ago
“We commend her fearlessness, leadership, and commitment to understanding what is lost and what is gained for everyone when opportunities for women contract or expand.”
#econsky
#academicsky
#history
#economichistory
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Claudia Goldin to Receive Talcott Parsons Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/claudia-goldin-to-receive-talcott.html?m=1
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Al Roth
6 days ago
Anti-fascism should have broad support across the American political spectrum. Elections need to be defended. Here's an open letter from retired professors at HBS in which we call for business leaders to address that need.
#econsky
#academicsky
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An anti-facist open letter from 23 retired Harvard Business School professors
https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-anti-facist-open-letter-from-23.html?m=1
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Takeshi Amemiya, my colleague and friend for many decades, has died at age 90. He made fundamental contributions to econometrics, having, as an empirical scholar, some gripes with the available toolkit. In retirement, he taught a course on the Economics of Ancient Greece. /1
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Terrific award! Congratulations 🎊.
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Michael Clemens
11 days ago
Deep breath. I'm honored and excited to join the faculty of America's oldest research university, Johns Hopkins. I'll start this summer as a full professor, one of the founding faculty at the brand-new School of Government and Policy. We're building something unique & important, even historic.
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Home - JHU School of Government and Policy
Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy advances governance with research, data-driven analysis, and innovative solutions to today’s challenges.
https://sgp.jhu.edu/
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Al Roth
11 days ago
“at the intersection of algorithm design, economics, machine learning, and operations research. “
#econsky
#academicsky
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Market Design in the Age of AI, this Friday at Stanford
https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/02/market-design-in-age-of-ai-this-friday.html?m=1
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I watched the Miracle on Ice live in '82, in which amateurs from a liberal democracy beat paid "army officers" from an authoritarian state, with great national pride. Seeing Kash Patel, US authoritarian, in the locker room today was not the same experience. 1/2
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Justin Wolfers
23 days ago
My menchies show a lotta distrust about the official jobs numbers right now. Lemme be clear: I don't believe there's *any* political meddling in these numbers. While the President has tried to mess with the BLS, he failed. I explain in a lot more detail, here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kncV...
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The BLS, Jobs Data, And Trust: Justin Wolfers On What Really Happened
Is it possible for democracy to win a quiet battle—and nobody notices? This clip tells a three-act story about the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the agency that produces the jobs report and…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kncVLVUXYbs
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Erika McEntarfer
23 days ago
Person who was fired here - you should still trust BLS data. The agency is being run by the same dedicated career staff who were running it while I was awaiting confirmation from the Senate. And the staff have made it clear that they are blowing a loud whistle if there is interference.
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Florian Ederer
24 days ago
My co-author Charles Hodgson (Yale) is hiring a full-time pre-doc to work on projects focusing on the role of information externalities. The hired researcher will meet regularly with faculty and receive dedicated research training & career development skills. Application👇
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Lars Vilhuber
24 days ago
Eleanor Wilkin and I are jointly searching for a
#predoc
(start: July 2026). This is the successor to my current fantastic pre-doc assisting the
@aeadata.bsky.social
but also working on Eleanor's work between econ and law! More information at
www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/post/ld...
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LDI Seeks Next Replication Lab Coordinator and Research Assistant
The School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Law School at Cornell University is seeking a Replication Lab Coordinator & Research Assistant (Research Aide IV). This full-time, benefits-eligibl...
https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/post/ldi-seeks-next-replication-lab-coordinator-and-research-assistant
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Football, pretty insipid. Best part was the flicker of competition from NE in the second half. Ads, mostly murky attempting quirky. Redfin selling neighborhoods an exception. Half time music terrific, blend of history, culture and energy.
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Completely agree.
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Al Roth
25 days ago
Last chance to present a paper at this Econ-CS conference
#econsky
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Deadline tomorrow morning for Econometric Society conference on Economics and AI+ML
https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/02/deadline-tomorrow-morning-for.html
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Darth Mit. As a kid, Darth Omit
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Susan Athey
27 days ago
I'm still processing the recent loss of my thesis advisor, colleague, and friend, John Roberts. We put together an In Memoriam to honor his life and career.
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Erica Groshen
29 days ago
Bad news today. The administration finalized a plan to remove civil service protections from about 50,000 federal workers, with no exemption for statistical or scientific agency personnel. This erodes protection of those agencies from political influence.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
#econsky
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Trump admin moves to finalize return of Schedule F
Officials estimate that around 50,000 federal workers will be stripped of their civil service protections beginning in around a month, as unions, employee associations and good government groups decry...
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/02/trump-admin-moves-finalize-return-schedule-f/411239/?oref=govexec_news_alert_nl
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Trevon Logan
about 1 month ago
One fact of Black History that bears repeating: Black people loved this country, even as it did not love them back. Learning Black history requires understanding how Black people navigated an environment designed to dehumanize them:
greenbookproject.osu.edu
#GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap
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Arpit Gupta
about 1 month ago
I'm teaching a new course at Stern on AI in Finance and opening it up! Syllabus/slides on Github:
github.com/arpitrage/ai...
Weekly summaries on Substack
arpitrage.substack.com/p/1-three-ru...
First post is on Amdahl's Law, Jevons' Paradox, and why finance was slow to learn the bitter lesson
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It's Langston Hughes' birthday. Poem-of-the-day two places:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/...
poets.org/poem/sun-song
Enjoy!
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These fibbies are really mad, that's why they talked to the NYT. They remind me a lot of the people who worked for me at DOJ, i.e. smart, dedicated to the mission, facts first, and proud of it. Listen to them, please.
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Trevon Logan
about 1 month ago
As of now, four Black people have been arrested, two journalists - Don Lemon and Georgia Fort - and two activists - Trahern Jeen Crew and Jamael Lvdell Lundy. It would be unwise to overlook the racial motivation to focus only on the political one. In fact, they are related to one another.
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Christian Zimmermann
about 1 month ago
Where can you find economists on BlueSky? RePEc has a list https;//
ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.h...
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RePEc-registered Economists on Bluesky
https://ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.html
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Super useful post from
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suggesting his substack will be a must read.
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John Roberts, one of the first adult Economists at Stanford to mentor me, has died at 80. Happy, pro-research, acerbic and sharp as a tack. Had a huge influence on the modern theory of the firm. Ace puff-piece (2010) from the GSB and thoughtful obit from Luis Garicano in the next skeets.1/3
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Trevon Logan
about 1 month ago
Folks are skeptical of the current moment because some people now “shocked, saddened, and calling for investigation” are only feeling these feelings after their attempts to label Alex Pretti as an evil anti-American man have failed. It’s CYA due to video evidence, message failure, and room reading.
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Aaron Sojourner
about 1 month ago
Bovino is Trump & Miller's Hatchet Man. He's pulled out and replaced with Homan, playing the White Knight. I feel relief over a boundary tentatively established but progress will still require lots of pushing.
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Nicole Bedera
about 1 month ago
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Excellent presentist history, Trevon.
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Dominique Baker
about 1 month ago
I also just want to let y'all know she's a dope human who does dope stuff and we should be so lucky as to have her guidance at the Fed
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Joshua Goodman
about 1 month ago
The annual call for
@nber.org
nominations has been released, so if you're a researcher hoping to become affiliated, reach out to existing affiliates to get nominated. If you're an existing affiliate, advocate for talented researchers, particularly those with networks not already full of NBER folks.
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Past participants have raved about this Boot Camp.
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Submission deadline pushed back to 2/10. The Econometric Society Interdisciplinary Frontiers (ESIF) conference on Economics and AI+ML will be hosted by Cornell University, in Ithaca NY, on June 16-17, 2026. Econs and CS work it all out!
mailing.econometricsociety.org/t/r-e-tkhifj...
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Econometric Society: Submission deadline extended to February 10, 2026, ESIF Economics & AI+ML Meeting
https://mailing.econometricsociety.org/t/r-e-tkhifjd-nddvdtddy-r/
about 2 months ago
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Joshua Goodman
about 2 months ago
The
@nber.org
Summer Institute call for papers is now live:
www.nber.org/calls-papers...
[Note that typical meeting dates have been pushed back by a week due to Boston hosting FIFA World Cup events ending on July 9.]
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Poetry Foundation's "poem of the day" notes that it is Martin Luther King Day. "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall will break your heart and build your resolve.
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Poem of the Day
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/poem-of-the-day
about 2 months ago
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"Reinforcements of goodwill " is from Yes, Prime Minister
@joshgans.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺
about 2 months ago
Whenever a Democratic POTUS comes to office in America (should that ever be possible again), prime recipients for the US Presidential Medal of Freedom are:
@aaronsojourner.org
@justinwolfers.bsky.social
@mclem.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preside...
H I G H E S T R E S P E C T
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Presidential Medal of Freedom - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom
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Lisa Cook is not a politician. That makes this list worse.
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I'm with Ben Edelman here. The lawsuit documents appear to focus on what was odd in HBS' review of his candidacy. Not sure you can learn about your own tenure process from reading this. (And always better to write something or teach someone than to worry about the process.)
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Econ and CS collaboration conference on AI (etc.) Just a few days left to submit a paper.
mailing.econometricsociety.org/t/r-e-tkdhid...
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Econometric Society: Call for Papers Now Open, 2026 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting
https://mailing.econometricsociety.org/t/r-e-tkdhidtk-nddvdtddy-r/
about 2 months ago
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CSWEP
about 2 months ago
@aeacswep.bsky.social
enjoyed hosting the reception to honor the inaugural Janet L. Yellen Award for Excellence in Public Service at
#ASSA2026
! A full house toasted her achievements in economics in public service and many were able to meet Janet Yellen!
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Trevon Logan
about 2 months ago
My mother grew up in Birmingham, AL. Upon seeing this at her local Target, she said something that stopped me in my tracks: “Not even Bull Connor did this kind of foolishness.”
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