Looking forward to this week’s booktalks and discussions! Sep 23: MIT Knight Science Journalism program ksj.mit.edu/events/ Sep 24: Harvard Kennedy School (including discussion with Dani Rodrik) www.hks.harvard.edu/events/book-... Sep 25: Yale Law School law.yale.edu/centers-work...

Looking forward to this week’s booktalks and discussions! Sep 23: MIT Knight Science Journalism program ksj.mit.edu/events/ Sep 24: Harvard Kennedy School (including discussion with Dani Rodrik) www.hks.harvard.edu/events/book-... Sep 25: Yale Law School law.yale.edu/centers-work...

🎪 Official book launch party on Nov 3! 🎪 Presentation, discussion, music, and drinks at Reference.point in London. Get your free tickets here, to reserve a slot: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc... cc @UChicagoPress.bsky.social @OxfordEconDept.bsky.social @INETOxford.bsky.social

🎪 Official book launch party on Nov 3! 🎪 Presentation, discussion, music, and drinks at Reference.point in London. Get your free tickets here, to reserve a slot: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc... cc @UChicagoPress.bsky.social @OxfordEconDept.bsky.social @INETOxford.bsky.social

📆 Mark your calendars! 📆 With the publication of "Means of prediction" approaching fast, I'm looking forward to an interesting set of panel discussions and book-talks this fall - I hope to see many of you there! Preliminary schedule of book talks: maxkasy.github.io/home/present...

📆 Mark your calendars! 📆 With the publication of "Means of prediction" approaching fast, I'm looking forward to an interesting set of panel discussions and book-talks this fall - I hope to see many of you there! Preliminary schedule of book talks: maxkasy.github.io/home/present...

Are you on the economics job market this year? Consider applying for the Nuffield postdoc at Oxford: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... It's an excellent opportunity for some extra research time in a great environment! (Econometrics and econ/ML applications particularly encouraged!)

Who controls the means of prediction? The struggle continues:

📢New Working Paper! "Cash Transfers, Mental Health and Agency: Evidence from an RCT in Germany" ✍️ Sandra Bohmann, Susann Fiedler @maxkasy.bsky.social @jpschupp.bsky.social Frederik Schwerte For further information, read the full paper: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

thoughtful assessment of the era of discourse about wokeness:

Are you on the economics job market this year? Consider applying for the Nuffield postdoc at Oxford: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... It's an excellent opportunity for some extra research time in a great environment! (Econometrics and econ/ML applications particularly encouraged!)

Check out new empirical paper on impact of basic income on employment outcomes: "Basic Income and Labor Supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany". By Sarah Bernhard, Sandra Bohmann, Susann Fiedler, Maximilian Kasy, Jürgen Schupp, Frederik Schwerter. @maxkasy.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social 👇👇👇

@oxfordecondept.bsky.social's Prof Maximilian Kasy explains why the political focus should be on creating a truly comprehensive safety net for all, rather than undermining the existing system in the name of austerity. Read more ⬇️

🧨 New draft dropped:🧨 "Cash Transfers, Mental Health and Agency: Evidence from an RCT in Germany" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... Companion paper to our paper on basic income and labor supply. Corresponding author Freddie Schwerter (@freddieschwerter.bsky.social). #basicincome #UBI

The exponential growth of solar power - some good news for a change: The Sun Has Its Moment www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

New Op-ed: "Welfare for the 21st century" www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07... I discuss British welfare reform, what we have learned from #basicincome and #jobguarantee experiments, and argue that we should create a truly comprehensive safety net for all. cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @INETOxford

New Op-ed: "Welfare for the 21st century" www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07... I discuss British welfare reform, what we have learned from #basicincome and #jobguarantee experiments, and argue that we should create a truly comprehensive safety net for all. cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @INETOxford

📚Reading rec:Learning Theory from First Principles📚 by @bachfrancis.bsky.social: www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/ltfp_... A rigorous review of state-of-the-art machine learning theory, covering both foundations and recent developments. Self-contained - though at times mathematically daunting.

Reading rec: 📖Empire of AI 📖 by Karen Hao (@karenhao.bsky.social) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569... Great reportage on the AI industry, from relentless pursuit of scaling, shutting down alternative paths, to the brutality of click-work, to the confluence of cult-like beliefs & big money.

What can we learn from the #Marienthal #JobGuarantee pilot for designing effective labor market and social policy? @maxkasy.bsky.social and I have a new @inetoxford.bsky.social policy brief that summarises the results of the #Marienthal #JobGuarantee. oms-inet.files.svdcdn.com/production/f...

Would a basic income reduce tax revenue by decreasing labor supply - or put pressure on wages by increasing labor supply? A field experiment by Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @maxkasy.bsky.social‬ & his coauthors concludes: Neither. stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/research/bas...

New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278 Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/

🔥New #basicincome paper just posted:🔥 "Basic income and labor supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany" (maybe not the wittiest title, but descriptive...) maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... Feedback welcome, this is still subject to revisions!

Reading rec: “How Life Works” press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Fascinating (if dense) survey of modern biology by a former editor of Nature. And a convincing polemic against the genetic reductionism of the “modern synthesis” of Darwinian evolution and Mendelian inheritance, 1/n

🔥New #basicincome paper just posted:🔥 "Basic income and labor supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany" (maybe not the wittiest title, but descriptive...) maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... Feedback welcome, this is still subject to revisions!

Reading rec: “How Life Works” press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Fascinating (if dense) survey of modern biology by a former editor of Nature. And a convincing polemic against the genetic reductionism of the “modern synthesis” of Darwinian evolution and Mendelian inheritance, 1/n

In case somebody missed this yesterday, while watching a political car-crash unfold: "The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)" is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

In case somebody missed this yesterday, while watching a political car-crash unfold: "The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)" is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

💥 📚 Next step on the book journey:📚💥 "The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)" is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!!! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Updated my "computational resources" page: maxkasy.github.io/home/computa... Added resources for Python: - Polars for data wrangling & large data sets - Vega-Altair for data visualization - GreatTables for table formatting and exporting - Scikit-Learn for supervised learning

“Adaptive maximization of social welfare” - out now in the current issue of Econometrica: www.econometricsociety.org/publications... @ecmaeditors.bsky.social

🤖 Software discovery of the week 🤖 I just started using Polars for datawrangling in Python, and am really impressed how fast it is when handling large datasets (orders of magnitude faster than Pandas). Also, the syntax feels very natural, coming from dplyr in R: pola.rs

Austrian Government Announces €50 Million to Progress Guaranteed Job… www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/austria...

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AI maximizes the objectives of those who control the means of prediction. exhibit 674: www.wired.com/story/grok-w...

Interesting interview on manosphere, misogyny, and monetary inequality: jacobin.com/2025/05/mano...

Interesting interview on manosphere, misogyny, and monetary inequality: jacobin.com/2025/05/mano...

How can we design algorithms that maximize social welfare, rather than profits? This paper merges multi-armed bandits and adversarial learning with optimal tax theory and welfare economics. @maxkasy @NicoloCB @Rcolomboni buff.ly/pxPY8nj

🤖 Interested in machine learning, economics, and the state of AI?🤖 In September, I will teach a 1-week intensive version of my course on foundations of ML (maxkasy.github.io/home/ML_Oxfo...) in our summer school. Apply here: ouess.web.ox.ac.uk/september-su... Spread the word!

📽️ Recording of my talk on "Optimal Pre-Analysis Plans: Statistical Decisions Subject to Implementability" at the International Seminar on Selective Inference last week:📽️ drive.google.com/file/d/1kuVs... (Discussion by @jlibdoesecon.bsky.social)

🤖 Interested in machine learning, economics, and the state of AI?🤖 In September, I will teach a 1-week intensive version of my course on foundations of ML (maxkasy.github.io/home/ML_Oxfo...) in our summer school. Apply here: ouess.web.ox.ac.uk/september-su... Spread the word!

This Wednesday (April 16) at 4 pm EDT: My Tax Dollars author @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social joins @ipk.bsky.social for a virtual panel discussion, "Co-Opting AI: Taxes," with Ekkehard Ernst, @maxkasy.bsky.social, and @monasloane.bsky.social. Register for this free event: ipk.nyu.edu/events/co-op...

Further coverage of our basic income study (by @rosarahimi.bsky.social): edition.cnn.com/2025/04/11/h... Our project website: maxkasy.github.io/home/basic_i... - further updates and papers will be posted here in the next couple of months!

Further coverage of our basic income study (by @rosarahimi.bsky.social): edition.cnn.com/2025/04/11/h... Our project website: maxkasy.github.io/home/basic_i... - further updates and papers will be posted here in the next couple of months!

Today, the first results of our 3-year Basic Income Study in Germany were released publicly. Here some initial press coverage by ARD (In German): www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen... More details (and several papers) to come in the coming months - stay tuned!

Today, the first results of our 3-year Basic Income Study in Germany were released publicly. Here some initial press coverage by ARD (In German): www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen... More details (and several papers) to come in the coming months - stay tuned!

The publisher just sent the draft cover design for my forthcoming book. I’d be curious to hear what associations people have with the figure in the background (in light of the title)!

The publisher just sent the draft cover design for my forthcoming book. I’d be curious to hear what associations people have with the figure in the background (in light of the title)!

🎉Just accepted at Econometrica:🎉 "Adaptive maximization of social welfare" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... (cc @ecmaeditors.bsky.social)

🎉Just accepted at Econometrica:🎉 "Adaptive maximization of social welfare" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... (cc @ecmaeditors.bsky.social)