Greenland is over 1900km away from the US. Venezuela is quite a bit closer.

@lesechosfr.bsky.social devrait connaitre la différence entre la position d'un éditorialiste et la position d'un journal! Le lien dans le texte est à une chronique de Simon Kuper qui d'autre part demande plus de taxation des très riches, mais ne défend aucune taxe spécifiquement.

A New York Times piece about autocrats and science has enough bad history of astronomy to turn a person into the Hulk!

[TSE REFLECT] 🧠At the crossroads of the world’s key transitions, infrastructure challenges are mounting up. From water shortages and housing costs to power cuts and rail upgrades, this TSE Reflect shows how economists can clear the way forward. 📰Read it here https://bit.pulse.ly/kqhbo45q41

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Yinghua was a great scholar, but it is his smile I am missing the most.

This is unbelievable! I know nothing at all about programming. I downloaded Cursor. I gave it instructions in plain English; it asked for details and within five minutes (I swear) it had built a simple web app. I did no coding whatsoever.

@proffionasm.bsky.social has just published a compilation of her recent writing on Digital Platform Regulation, much of which is focused on European Regulation. I am very honored to be a co-author on a few of the chapters. You can get you free copy at som.yale.edu/centers/thur...

I somehow missed this open letter from Lech Walesa when it first came out, following the Trump-Zelensky meeting in the White House... It's worth a read. www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/co...

Do I understand correctly. Harvard corrupts the minds of its students. The Trump administration wants to protect international students from this corruption, while making it more accessible to American students?

Congratulations to these three fantastic economists, and specially to @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social !

The election of Cardinal Prevost as pope is prophetic. At the time where the US turns to "America First", the pope is an American who dedicated a major part of his life to serving another, poorer, country. A lesson for all rich countries.

It seems that there is a distinct possibility that Musk has lost more through the decrease in Tesla stock than he saved the US government. If they had thought this through, maybe they would have realized there was scope for a mutually beneficial trade.

I am sure there are important lessons here, but I am not sure what they are beyond the totally obvious (and useless) "be smarter and more strategic". www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/b...

How do I inform Bluesky's algorithm that one cute cat picture a week is plenty? And one 10s video a year.

Alissa belongs to our little "Yale" discussion group, and she is great. This is a very lucid explanation of the difference between regulation and lawsuits in the context of social media. @alissacooper.bsky.social

I am so smart 🧠! I have figured out the strategy behind the tariffs. They will indeed cut off the supply of fentanyl to the US: the gangs will turn to more lucrative forms of smuggling, like Chinese plastic bath toys. 💡

I have not seen any discussion of the administrative difficulties of managing the tariffs. I cannot believe that this is going to go well. Setting up all the reporting, collecting and policing mechanisms is a huge endeavor. Imported goods will be more expensive, but also some will never arrive.

I know that the Trump administration cares only about trades in goods, but still, the US has a huge trade surplus in educational services, and they are killing it. 🤷‍♂️

It is an unfair trade practice for Chinese to produce American flags!?!?

On top of the many other idiocies involved, it never seems to occur to these people that the workers who will make the iPhones, or the steel, or... will have to be taken away from some other activity. What is it that they will not be producing?

As economist, I am flabbergasted by the self-harm inflicted on the US. As a strong Americanophile, I am devastated by what MAGA ideology does to (and reveals about? ) the soul of America. David Brooks is must reading on this last point. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

The US must have the greatest proportion of university students who take some economics. It is the world leading power in economic research. And inane voodoo economics are used to justify shattering the world economy? 🤨😡

I got a prize! (Well I had help from 8 fantastic co-authors! A Fletcher, P Heidhues, G Kimmelman, @giorgiomonti.bsky.social, @podszun.bsky.social, @monika-schnitzer.com, A de Streel, @proffionasm.bsky.social. awards.concurrences.com/en/awards/20...

The tariffs will not last: politics or the courts will stop them. The tax cuts they provide a cover for will last. Can anything go wrong?

You should NEVER rely on one new fancy study to understand an issue or to choose a policy. You should integrate it in your stock of empirical, theoretical and descriptive knowledge. It is a problem that such integration is not valued in academia.

@british-airways.bsky.social invests millions in new first class seats, but cannot fix their customer service, even for gold card customers. I am witnessing someone who has already spent more than eight hours on the phone trying to redeem vouchers, so far unsuccessfully. on.ft.com/4j7eD0w

Don't forget to follow Economists for Ukraine on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/econ...

This blog post by @pietergaricano.bsky.social while ostensibly about education makes crucial points about the limits of European policies, which are specially relevant as we think of industrial policy. www.siliconcontinent.com/p/policies-w...

Can someone enlighten me? In American discussions, "national interest" always signifies material gains for the US ($, power, safety). The government is the agent of the citizens. Many Americans have less selfish goals; why are those not integrated in the definition of national interest?

If you do not know French yet, time to learn it so that you can listen to Claude Malhuret, the best speaker of the French parliament on Ukraine and the current political situation. youtu.be/tiRAgvqPr4w?...

Listen to me, @jcremer.bsky.social and Paul Seabright on the Europe-US technology gap, on our @bennettinstitute.bsky.social and IAST podcast Crossing Channels podfollow.com/crossing-cha...

So, the @washingtonpost.com wants to be like the @wsj.com, a great newspaper with a close to unreadable opinion pages.

The more I read about the constitutional crisis in the US, the more I believe that the American Constitution is defective. Good faith experts can disagree fundamentally on what is or is not constitutional. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

@lugaricano.bsky.social and @guyverhofstadt.bsky.social call a) for Ukrainian EU membership on the day an armistice is signed and b) for an immédiate and very large increase in Europe's spending on arms. www.siliconcontinent.com/p/what-would...

Some day, the fable that private firms are necessarily short sighted and subject to a stock market which only rewards quarterly profits will be put to rest. www.wired.com/story/micros...

Strange fact: electronic goods are often cheaper on amazon.de than on amazon.fr and delivered just as fast (if not faster). Questions: * why? * how many French residents take advantage of this?

Worthwhile thinking about: How to provide evidence in turbulent times by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/bf6e... via @financialtimes.com The title is a bit misleading. Diane actually speaks more about "To whom should we provide evidence in turbulent times".

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A most extraordinary article in @wired.com about the extent of location data sharing through the advertising industry. I am the less paranoid person I know, but this scares me. Congratulations @josephcox.bsky.social! www.wired.com/story/gravy-...

Congratulations to my friend and colleague from a long time ago, at Virginia Tech, Yannis Ioannides, who has just been elected Fellow of Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory! saet.uiowa.edu

Congratulations to my TSE colleague Stéphane Villeneuve who has just been elected Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory! saet.uiowa.edu

I wonder whether the same argument could be made about Twitter. Free speech should be protected in Europe, but control of an influential media by a hostile foreign citizen is not!

If you are not in Toulouse right now listening to Paul Seabright, Jean Tirole, Diane Coyle, Olivier Coste and Monika Schwitzer discussing European innovation, you have the wrong priorities.

Is Facebook dying as "social media" ? I just went through the list of my friends and very few of them post anything. Using it seems to be a perpetual struggle to see the posts of the two or three "influencers" I am interested in, among the junk that FB is peddling.

Shameless self-promotion: as you admire the mass migration to Bluesky, you might want to see how G. Biglaiser, A. Veiga and I modelled the transition from an incumbent platform to a superior entrant. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

I would like to propose a term to designate the ideology of these two gentlemen: plutocratic populism. (Somebody has probably already thought of this.) bsky.app/profile/jcre...

Next Tuesday, 14h CET, Yaron Yehezkel (Tel-Aviv Un.) will present "Competing for Cookies: Platforms’ Business Models in Data Markets with Network Effects" (with S. Markovich) Discussant: Tat-How Teh (Nanyang Technological Un.) at the TSE Economics of Platforms seminar. www.tse-fr.eu/online-semin...

Claude d'Aspremont and I have posted "Bayesian Implementation, Efficiency, and Independence Classes". New results and new interpretations of old ones on "d'Aspremont-Gérard-Varet" mechanisms. Applications to Economics and Computer Science. www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...

The interview of @mclem.org by @soumayakeynes.bsky.social on the (past and future) Trump immigration policy is first rate. Lots of facts; strong opinions, clearly articulated. Really worth listening to. pca.st/episode/2c39...