NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

My colleague Eswar Prasad visiting with Prof G

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

📣 Come join a top-5 strategy department in Europe and work with me on an exciting topic at the intersection of causal AI and strategy 🤖📈 I'm recruiting a PhD student as part of my Sapere Aude Research Leader Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. (1/3)

What could go wrong?

Hats off to Zoe Ziani

Despite the reported skepticism of higher education, Americans “still recognize the value of a degree for themselves and their children. And they’re correct to do so,” @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes.

The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!

Inflection point!

This online, PhD-level course in the economics of innovation is a huge opportunity. Taught by some of the world's top scholars on this: @heidiwilliams.bsky.social, Chad Jones, Azoulay, van Reenen, many others! Co-sponsor @ifp.bsky.social If you're admitted, it's free. Applications due January 9th!

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Humanity emitted more Greenhouse Gases in 2025 than any year ever

Amazing opportunity for young scholars to move from US to Europe

Wow this is a shockingly poor driving performance. We're not very close to autonomous driving, friends

This is massive

That didn't take long

What he said

So epstein was a mentor to summers in abusing young women. In 2018.

Who Exactly Ruined the Workplace, Including the Economics Profession?

Wow this is an incredible paper! Frontier knowledge exposure can narrow socioeconomic disparities. It actually matters what you teach!

This absolutely nuts. I'm not sure there is a single scientist in the US who has not advised a Chinese graduate student in the past 5 years.

Whoa! According to Jason Furman the only US industry to grow this year has been data centers & IT

Electrify! Electrify! Electrify! And develop cheap green hydrogen.

Did The New York Times soil itself? Some people say. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Cornell's agreement actually explicitly restored academic freedom but it allows gov access to anonymized admission data (but not set the criteria). Now would be a great time to stop legacy admission practices across the ivies and other top private universities.

It looks bad because it is bad #EconSky

Hmmm?

Finland has a goal to be net zero GHG emissions by 2035. Emissions were declining, the LULUCF removals were strong, the plan was looking good, but then LULUCF collapsed. Net GHG emissions have actually risen over the last decade! www.treasuryfinland.fi/investor-rel... 1/

Unreal

New WP (by me and others) on how disclosure mandates: (1) increase disclosure (primarily of negative outcomes), and (2) how expectations of increased disclosure by others slows down innovation. Link and more details in @florianederer.bsky.social's thread...

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces. This is truly terrifying.

Ending slavery increased GDP by 9.1% as slavery reduced the welfare of the enslaved substantially, while only generating minuscule welfare gains to slave owners. Fascinating topic that once again highlights how coercive instructions are economically detrimental! www.nber.org/papers/w3435...

An NFT of a stock is not a stock

Growth = minimizing the number of people who are hungry, sick, homeless, or not free, within planetary constraints. It's not complicated (in principle).

Heehee

Umm... That's not how copyright works

Some of the white pines, symbols of peace, that are around my house located on the traditional land of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ may have been here in the 1820s when Erie canal was built and the Haudenosaunee were cheated out of their lands, displaced, and largely decimated. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

Only in Finland: the single biggest taxpayer criticises government for cutting taxes

Far as I can tell, Robert Redford was: * successful at everything he tried * genuinely intelligent & insightful * desired by women * envied by men * an absolute mensch to everyone he dealt with * a tireless, lifelong philanthropist ... and he died peacefully in his sleep. 10/10 life. No notes.

I hope this is accurate

No way

We seem to circling back to this

Global business should be all over climate change, particularly the financial sector. Risk management is their core. Climate change is very bad for business and their economic analysts see the writing very clearly on the wall.

Why are the Nordics happier and healthier than most countries? Lower inequality. It's costly but generates huge benefits for all.

A keeper

Research agents are here!

Awesome!

Small government, eh?

JFC. Chatbots don't "lie" or "roleplay", they predict what sequence of words you want to hear/read.