Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

🎄 📕 Looking for a last-minute gift for the AI-curious or AI-worried person in your life? 📕🎄 Consider "The means of prediction"! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

This remains one of the most important articles to understand what is happening to higher ed. Open access! academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

Eye scans, licence plate readers, spyware: technology used to catch criminals and terrorists is being repurposed to fulfil Trump's pledge to deport 1mn undocumented migrants this year. Critics fear it’s the thin end of the authoritarian wedge. An #FTEdit thread on America’s new surveillance state 👇

One more round of booktalks on “The means of prediction:” Dec 2 UC Berkeley (Matrix): matrix.berkeley.edu/events/maxim... Dec 3 Stanford (Silicon Valley archive): events.stanford.edu/event/max-ka... Dec 5 UC Davis (econ). Come by if you are in the Bay Area!

One more round of booktalks on “The means of prediction:” Dec 2 UC Berkeley (Matrix): matrix.berkeley.edu/events/maxim... Dec 3 Stanford (Silicon Valley archive): events.stanford.edu/event/max-ka... Dec 5 UC Davis (econ). Come by if you are in the Bay Area!

My colleagues are organizing a workshop on *AI for economic research* next March. Paper submission is open now! icms.ac.uk/activities/w...

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks

Tomorrow at LSE Economics: sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/... @sticerd_lse

🕸️ 🔢 Presenting tomorrow at UCL: 🔢 🕸️ "Causal inference on endogenous social network formation" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s... @ucleconomics.bsky.social

Wird Künstliche Intelligenz die Weltherrschaft übernehmen? Darüber müssen wir uns keine Sorgen machen, schreibt der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Oxford-Professor Maximilian Kasy in seinem Buch “The Means of Prediction”. Wohl aber darüber, wer Künstliche Intelligenz für seine Zwecke einsetzen kann:

Künstliche Intelligenz: Wie kann KI den Vielen nutzen? www.moment.at/story/kuenst... (mein Interview im heutigen @moment.at)

🏛️ And now in Greek! 🏛️ jacobin.gr/i-anthropoti...

please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state" ⚗️🧪 #chemsky

Extract from the introduction of "The Means of Prediction" published on Literary Hub: lithub.com/why-big-tech...

Just out in the New York Times: My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o... @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Happy pub day to Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @maxkasy.bsky.social! In this interview, he discusses his new book, The Means of Prediction, which offers a convincing argument for democratic control over AI’s objectives. @uchicagopress.bsky.social stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/whos-afraid-...

“We might hope that keeping our own data private could protect each of us from unwanted outcomes. But A.I. doesn’t need to know what you have been doing; it only needs to know what people like you have done before,” Maximilian Kasy writes.

Just out in the New York Times: My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o... @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com

⏰ We are hiring on the junior market! ⏰ Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics: econjobmarket.org/positions?sh... 2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ. cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social

Some lovely first reviews of "The Means of Prediction" are out: www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p... (by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social) 1/n

⏰ We are hiring on the junior market! ⏰ Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics: econjobmarket.org/positions?sh... 2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ. cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

🚨Public service announcement:🚨 Only 2 weeks until the official launch event for "The means of prediction" on Nov 3, incl discussion with Noam Yuchtman, music, and bar. Get your free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/reference-... & your copy of the book here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

🚨Public service announcement:🚨 Only 2 weeks until the official launch event for "The means of prediction" on Nov 3, incl discussion with Noam Yuchtman, music, and bar. Get your free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/reference-... & your copy of the book here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Reading rec: 📖✊🏼The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution ✊🏽📖 by David Runciman www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... Insightful yet very readable discussion of political thinkers from Rousseau and Bentham to Luxemburg and Beauvoir.

Reading rec: 📖🧳 A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes 🧳📖 by Anthony Bale (@realmandeville.bsky.social) www.goodreads.com/book/show/15... Entertaining exploration of how medieval European travelers made sense of foreign lands and the world.

Reading rec: Britains made up migrant crisis by Daniel Finn (@DanFinn95) jacobin.com/2025/10/brit... Thoughtful discussion of the paradoxes of British attitudes, which became more racially inclusive and yet more xenophobic over time.

Reading rec: 📖✊🏼The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution ✊🏽📖 by David Runciman www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... Insightful yet very readable discussion of political thinkers from Rousseau and Bentham to Luxemburg and Beauvoir.

Presenting today: overview and comparison of our findings in the #basicincome and #jobguarantee pilots maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s... Takeaway: We need both policies!

Take my money

🪅📕 The first paper copy has arrived! 📕🪅 #themeansofprediction

Reading rec: "Challenges in Statistics: A Dozen Challenges in Causality and Causal Inference" arxiv.org/abs/2508.17099 Great overview of both the state of the art and open question in causal inference!

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