🚨 I'm looking to hire a Research Assistant based in the UK for a project on the “Political economy of AI.” If you know someone interested, please let them know that they can fill this form to apply: forms.gle/wjhiJQ2hz8oa... Feel free to share this with your students or those interested. Thanks!

🚨A new version of my paper on automation, redistributive conflict and inequality can be found here: cfbalcazar.github.io/files/pdf/re...

I have a become a big fan of using tikz in latex for doing Directed Acyclic Graphs and plot functions in Latex. While it has its learning curve, the figures are so pretty that I feel it has been worth it. Whenever I run into a problem, tikz.dev has been an invaluable resource.

Some happy news: I have joined the Institute for the Future of Work in London as an Affiliate Research Fellow!

Excellent book I devoured recently - the title is self-explanatory :) : cloudempires.org

Nice review on digital economics: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Technological change has had important consequences for labour markets in recent decades. What about its electoral consequences? In this new article in EJPR, we use administrative data to follow nearly a million workers over 16 years to study this. 🧵 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Studies of persistence of early institutions may be making conclusions that might be false - "it's all about spatial intra-cluster correlation my friend" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On why the DAGs are so useful: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... and academic.oup.com/edited-volum... For me they also present alternatives for connecting theory with empirics; e.g., I find them useful when explaining students how to think about testable hypotheses when they don't know formal models

🚨New working paper alert 🚨: In a model, I show that automation can increase political mobilization from workers and distributive conflict, but that this may not necessarily lead to lower levels of inequality unless the labor share is high. cfbalcazar.github.io/files/pdf/re...

Practical guide to shift share instruments: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

Follow up on recent debate on non-linearities in full interaction effects arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05717

My book, Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance, is out today! You can order it from @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social for 20% off with the discount code CLARK24. The purchase link and a short thread on the book follow 🧵

🚨Looking for an RA🚨I'm looking to hire a Research Assistant based in the UK for a project on the “Political economy of AI.” Please find the relevant information in the dropbox link. Please feel free to share this with your students or those you think may be interested. Thank you!

Six days left to apply! 👇Come join us in Oslo.

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

In the context of a emerging "new gilded age," I think this is perhaps one of the most relevant books I have read in the past few years - recommended to everyone: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Hi folks, a good day to join BlueSky! Here is my causal inference starter pack for you. go.bsky.app/Fa2XSDH

Are you estimating a first-difference (FD) regression, assuming that treatment changes randomly assigned? Happy to share new paper with two simple pieces of advice. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Advice 1: start by regressing treatment change Delta D on baseline treatment D1.

The time of starter packs has almost faded, but as more and more European Think Tanks are arriving with their official accounts, I put together a starter pack of them: go.bsky.app/8Ra8RjU Likely missed a few - especially from CEE and Northern Europe - so further suggestions welcome!

Are you an early-career social scientist exploring the impacts of conflict, insecurity, or war? Apply to the WarEffects Global Fellows Network: ✨ Research grants ✨ Workshop opportunities ✨ Publication support 📅 Deadline: 7 Feb 25 🔗 Apply now: www.wareffects.eu/get-involved...

A cool theoretical mechanism explaining how individuals choose what information they are interested in learning from; in a world with too much information and the existence of misinformation, the answer lies in how costly acquiring accurate information is www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

I start teaching my class on Global Environmental Politics next week. Starting this class after we surpassed the 1.5C target, and seeing the terrible news coming from California, is sobering 😕

A popular tool in political science for dealing with nonlinearities in invalidated by... ...nonlinearities. datacolada.org/121

International Political Economy starter pack, No 2: go.bsky.app/B9TNiaP If you wanted to be added, or have suggestions on who to add, please reply to this post.

Following the example of @rickyclark.bsky.social and @lisadellmuth.bsky.social I have put together an International Political Economy starter pack. Please answer this post if you want to be included in a second starter pack! (I exhausted all 150 slots for this pack 😅) go.bsky.app/JQeggfC

Here's my International Relations starter pack - just answer this post if you want to be included! go.bsky.app/GHjHQu3 #polisky #internationalrelations #econsky #internationalpolitics

I've seen so many great starter packs, but I've yet to encounter one on int'l organizations and cooperation. So, I made one. It is no doubt incomplete, but I hope you find it helpful nonetheless. Feel free to circulate and, if you have suggestions on who to add, send them my way! go.bsky.app/RbHqH38

5 days left to apply to the conference on the IPE of Automation, AI and Digital Trade, taking place on February 16th, 2024, at Yale University❗

🚨Updated paper🚨polisky ! We have a new version of our paper with Amanda Kennard on climate change and political mobilization - it's looking way better than the previous version 😁: cfbalcazar.github.io/files/pdf/re...

🚨Call for papers🚨 The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies will hold a conference on the IPE of Automation, AI and Digital Trade, on February 16th, 2024, at Yale University. More information here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kkimf... submission form here:  forms.gle/qdsPcLrwkwpU...

CfP: Supporting Women in International Political Economy Conference When: April 12 Where: UPenn What: Mentorship, feedback, solidarity! Who: Junior women & non-binary scholars (post-PhD) Submit full drafts by December 15: forms.gle/Waj2dejPtf3d... Register to attend: forms.gle/oLddU2Jgdxnc...

Back from a trip to DC for IPES and to present our research agenda with Amanda Kennard on climate change, legitimacy and political mobilization at the World Bank. More importantly, I was able to take my students to the World Bank so that they could experience the dialog between policy and academia!😀

Automation and climate change are very important topics for IPE today. This semester I'm teaching a class on these topics, focused on trying to get the foundations right, to make second image (reversed) arguments. This is the syllabus in case it is useful: cfbalcazar.github.io/files/pdf/te...

Still testing if it works but there’s now an IPE/CPE feed for folks who are in polisky already! It’s ipesky or cpesky or cipesky. First time I do any of this so I’m very open to suggestions (starting from the feed’s avatar!). Please help advertising it!

Some recent additions to this list of science-related feeds: 1. #AddictionSci bsky.app/profile/did:... 2. #AgriEcon bsky.app/profile/did:... 3. #CogSci bsky.app/profile/did:... 4. Compneurosky 🧠🤖 bsky.app/profile/did:... 5. #DevSci bsky.app/profile/did:... 6. #Geography bsky.app/profile/did:... 🧵👉

Fixed the broken link: I've been working on a sample syllabus for some time. It's a quant methods syllabus for IR/IPE scholars - somewhat technical tbh. (I did put in some of my own work as examples 🤭.）I want to share in case some find it useful: cfbalcazar.github.io/files/pdf/te... Polisky

I've started a list of PoliSky Sub-feeds. If you know of one (or started one) that should be added, please re-skeet the feed announcement and @profruback.bsky.social when you do. I'll add it ASAP. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... (@maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social, @profmusgrave.bsky.social )