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CALL FOR PAPERS! @quartino.bsky.social and I are organising a Workshop on Persistence and Cultural Transmission. Date and place: 18–19 June, Belfast, UK. Keynote speakers: Siwan Anderson (VSE) and Patrick Francois (VSE). Deadline: 31 March. More information here: hhdi.co.uk/hhdi-nide-jo...

🆕 Everything you need to know about a PhD in economics In this blog post, @AbdouNdiayeNYU provides a set of answers to many of the most common questions about economics PhDs: voxdev.org/topic/everyt...

Happy to share the VoxDev article on my recent joint JDE publication exploring how Indigenous communities in Mexico resisted nation-building policies.

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

My joint paper “Public good or public bad? Nation-building and indigenous institutions” is in press at the Journal of Development Economics! We show how Indigenous institutions, capturing Indigenous mobilisation, shaped nation-building efforts in post-revolutionary Mexico. doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

My joint paper “Public good or public bad? Nation-building and indigenous institutions” is in press at the Journal of Development Economics! We show how Indigenous institutions, capturing Indigenous mobilisation, shaped nation-building efforts in post-revolutionary Mexico. doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

Economic genius Donald Trump explains how he comes up with tariff rates

Looking forward to the RIDGE workshop on historical development in Lima, Peru on May 12–13, where I’ll be presenting joint work with Eduardo Hidalgo and Sotiris Kampanelis on violence and ethnic identity. Excited to join such a brilliant lineup of speakers. Program here: ridge.org.uy/wp-content/u...

Justin Wolfers explains the REAL reason why Trump & Bessent said today that their first deal will likely be with South Korea - because that country has had zero tariffs on virtually everything from the US for 20 years already.

What Can an Economist Learn from a Political Scientist? open.substack.com/pub/mejiaj/p...

New post from me about Trump's tariffs and why Harold Macmillan was right - we Brits are truly Greece to America's Rome - because our Brexit-era compulsion to think everything was 'simple' has a Trumpian heir. A short thread. 1/n benansell.substack.com/p/simple

Nobel Prizes by country and year. The dominance of Germany is striking every time. Before 1933, that is. And the utter dominance of America (and the UK) after 1945.

New post on Broadstreet by yours truly! Check it out. #econhistory #peru #laborcoercion open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

New Broadstreet post! By @larroyoabad.bsky.social and Noel Maurer www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-arm-of...

Scott's Mixtape podcast is like no other: it’s 100% focused on the backstory behind the research. Neat idea and super fun for his guests!

As @cpsjournal.bsky.social editor I read about 100 peer-reviews per month. A 🧵 on what makes a great review: 1.) Succinct summary of the contribution (puzzle, argument, data, evidence) 2.) State clearly in your first paragraph whether the evidence supports the argument.

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

Dear US colleagues, In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France. There are several M$ in the budget. www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

BREAKING: Canada is imposing 25% tariffs on C$30 billion worth of US imports with immediate effect, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said hours after US President Donald Trump slapped 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada reut.rs/4i2GMFT

Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.

Our article on the origins of Latin American inequality with Francisco Eslava is now out at Oxford Open Economics academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

Call for papers. Second Workshop on Cultural Transmission and Persistence at Queen's University Belfast on 12 and 13 of June 2025. Keynote Speakers: @ingelaalger.bsky.social and @saralowes.bsky.social. Info and submission👇 hhdi.co.uk/nide-qub-joi... #econsky, #econtwitter, #EconConf

I have been studying bureaucracy my entire career. Here are some insights from my research about the ongoing efforts to transform the US federal bureaucracy newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/is-the-u-s-c...

The piece I've been waiting for: How Musk personally benefits from gutting the federal government. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

Happy to announce that my paper with Noel Maurer on labor coercion in colonial Peru has finally been upgraded to "published" by the Journal of Economic Growth. Share it please with your family, friends, colleagues, and enemies! #econhistory link.springer.com/article/10.1...

1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Wish I could share this with my economics students in managerial economics—one, because it highlights key factors for strong organisational performance; two, because my brilliant entrepreneur sister is one of the speakers! For those who understand, it’s worth a watch: youtu.be/HokIm5K1HMM?...

📢We are hiring 📢 We look to fill a Postdoc position in Economic History! 5-year position funded by ERC project „Entrenched: Elite Capture and Social Mobility“ jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/1964 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025 Please spread widely! @econtribute.bsky.social #EconSky

If you're attending ASSA, don't miss the session on Spatial Economics: Methods and Applications! My coauthor, Yannis M. Ioannides, will present our Songlines paper today from 8-10am!

#ASSA2025 livestream sessions available to everyone at

For those who are interested, here are the Nobel prize lectures in economics. Thank you. www.youtube.com/live/YcuxbYU...

I highly recommend watching these Nobel lectures (h/t @albertobisin.bsky.social), especially inspiring for those of us who do political economy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycux...

Please submit your great papers to this EJ special issue, edited by the wonderful @albertobisin.bsky.social

🚨Job Market Paper Here! NOW ON BLUESKY!! Are we fully examining every aspect of contemporary agrarian reforms to understand their true impacts? In my JMP I analyze the effects of public land transfers (PLT) versus expropriations, the primary land allocation methods used in Latin America reforms

Oh well, at least we tried! Tickets sold out in less than 40 minutes. I tried making feel better my 9-year-old by explaining it was all down to idiosyncratic factors and random noise. Her confused look said it all: even she knew I was just making excuses!

SIOE is now on bsky! The next cool SIOE conference is in Sydney, Paris 2026, @warwickecon.bsky.social in 2027

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All 16 articles in the EJ virtual issue "Religion and Economics" will be Free-to View until early December 2024 👇

We are hiring at @warwickecon.bsky.social. Join the department where Oliver Hart and James Robinson studied, and teach the next generation of Nobel Laureates 😎 Apply here 👉 econjobmarket.org/positions/11... The deadline is Tuesday, November 18th. #EconJobMarket #EconSky