yeah your favorite economist has a substack, but @econchrisclarke.bsky.social got to destroy a commercial jetliner

@dylanmatt.bsky.social I know you're not here very often, but I just saw a very active tax prep group at a public library, which made me wonder if you're still doing it and if you had any observations this year (the financial version of Friedman's cab driver interviews?)

I did not know this history, good thread

Good story about Claudia Goldin and Economics: www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Of course when @socio-steve.bsky.social isn't here @besttrousers.bsky.social

One indicator of @ourworldindata.org 's influence and usefulness to the field, Dartmouth economist Doug Irwin surveying global development at a packed named lecture at Yale econ using their graphics

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Good

picture, thousan words, etc etc

Evidence that gun lobbying is more predictive of policy change (when one party is in control of a state) than constituent sentiment

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

Signs of spring in my feed @lisakramer.com (I don’t think I follow either of these folks, it’s just the algorithm guessing my age correctly)

Hansi has been doing amazing public service reporting since (probably before but I first noticed) the first Trunp administration

The left wing Senate challenger from the left wing party had a Nazi tattoo which he only just now covered up after he was caught. American politics is fucking batshit bro.

Hi team! I’m giving a talk on USAID withdrawal — send me your best work! Already including stuff from @ryanjablonski.bsky.social Bridgetet Seim Alex Yeandle @guygrossman.bsky.social @shelbycarvalho.bsky.social @yangyangzhou.bsky.social @fromagehomme.bsky.social @haleyswedlund.bsky.social

Another recent @socio-steve.bsky.social follower

Attention education researchers @arnoldventures.bsky.social RFP on causal effects of school cell phone bans (cc @alexeble.bsky.social @joshua-goodman.com @andydebarros.bsky.social ) www.arnoldventures.org/evidence-eva...

Man, if I wanted to spend my day blocking antisemites I wouldn't have left Twitter

Yale library Me wandering up to stage after show 🤝

A friend went round to his neighbours’ for Eid last night and apparently the wife slightly panicked about hosting white people because she disappeared for a couple of minutes and came back with half a pint of whisky for him. This, to me, is multiculturalism

i just talked w my mom for 30 minutes and before i could hang up she said to my dad “hadas wants to know how an oil refinery works” and passed him the phone

“All great world-historic facts ... appear, so to speak, twice ... the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce” So, er... ‘happy’ 12th anniversary of this, I suppose

It’s the 119th anniversary of ‘Typhoid Mary’ being arrested in New York – and not without some difficulty... 🧵

Resizing Microsoft Word a joke I have about an image

Most of us are sending mundane photos to folks and posting it online for the world to see with private Location data embedded. That’s the power of defaults.

Important new work on how to increase foundational skills at scale in LMICs by @andydebarros.bsky.social. Teaching at the Right Level implemented by govt at scale in Zambia improved academic outcomes in medium run (7th grade). Great to see longer-run evidence start to accumulate on these programs.

If you're looking for some wholesome, mildly educational low-stakes entertainment: I really enjoy the Map Men playing Geoguessr. The loser has to travel to the place that he got most wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tO2...

Are you a married woman who enjoys exercising your constitutional right to vote? This afternoon, Senate Republicans and Trump hope to make it much harder for you. Call your senator and tell them to vote NO on the "SAVE" Act. act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-go...

I have a joke about a grant but you probably won’t get it

For a better model, see the work of Amartya Sen who asked why democratic India avoided mass famine while authoritarian China did not: bsky.app/profile/owas...

I have a joke about Latex but it won’t compile

This counter tracks estimated war spending and what we could have had instead ( cc: @donmoyn.bsky.social ) fundliterallyanythingbutthis.netlify.app

I have a joke about economics that explores for the first time to our knowledge why the chicken crossed the road

I have a joke about economics that explores for the first time to our knowledge why the chicken crossed the road

ACES is pleased to accept applications for its 2026 ACES Summer School in Political Economy, August 12-14 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Details and application instructions available here: conta.cc/4l2ox5I Application deadline April 15.

CONAN: “For the first time since 2012 no British people are nominated for Best actor or best Actress… a British spokesperson commented, ‘Yeah, well, at least we arrest our pedophiles.’" #Oscars

I always wondered this after I crossed off a school I visited on a dreary day and it struck me as dull and gloomy

Economists Security bots 🤝 👇

Meanwhile in my mentions and all over the internet people are calling this a false flag, saying it was fake, saying it never happened, saying that these CHILDREN deserved it because of what “Jews have done”. And a lot of this is coming from “allies” on the left.

What if there’s one place the Laffer Curve works

UK preparing to release episodes from the strategic Doctor Who episode reserve

This is the stupid and violent equiavalent of organizing an APSA panel so you can hang out with academics you admire

I remind my kids to always keep them together so you don’t lose one, so if they ever do this, they’ll have to eat the second one also

This is in fact the normal way that we identifiable Jews live

Synagogues pay for their own security. Building bollards and gates, installing cameras, etc., require capital campaigns or added membership dues. A police presence is not free. Plus synagogues train their members to volunteer as security guards. We do this because safety is not a choice.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

Solid title, I respect it @joshua-goodman.com (also cc @raulpachecovega.bsky.social )

I like how typos in manuscripts are no longer considered evidence of sloppiness, and have turned instead into luxury signals of hand-crafted writing by a human master wordsmith who keeps to the traditional ways