very useful these days, with several insights on Iran’s politics.

very useful these days, on Iran’s politics.

Up to 3 postdoc positions starting on Jan. 2027 on Land Economics (in a broad sense), hosted in the Econ group of NYUAD, Social Science Division, and associated to the center Cities. Candidates can now apply to the vacancy via this link: apply.interfolio.com/181408 @nyuad-oaa.bsky.social

From Tanguy :) @tanguylefur.bsky.social

Top CEPR Discussion Paper of 2025 - DP19955 Fighting for Resources: A Unified Growth Model of the Great Divergence Tanguy Le Fur & Etienne Wasmer https://ow.ly/4lzu50XLr9E #CEPR_EH #CEPR_MG #CEPR_PoE #EconSky #2025inReview

and a short summary/thread on X x.com/etiennewasme...

Les Français font des phrases trop longues, les Allemands ont des mots trop longs, c’est pour cela que les Anglais ont imposé leur langue. Die Franzosen machen zu lange Sätze, die Deutschen haben zu lange Wörter, im Grunde ist das der Grund, warum die Engländer ihre Sprache durchgesetzt haben.

Page enfin mise à jour sites.google.com/site/etienne... échanges bienvenus.

I will not leave X because it’s important that the voice of academics be heard by a larger audience, and to avoid the ‘echo chamber effect / syndrom’. However, I miss some of the respected great minds leaving X and will come here to follow them. Passive here, more (though not much) active there.