"So, professor, how do we correct economics?" - I was asked a month or so ago... The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists. proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...

"So, professor, how do we correct economics?" - I was asked a month or so ago... The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists. proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...

"one thing is clear -- #commodities prices will continue in their volatility..." but what of #development? open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

In this latest podcast we touch on complex problems of the state of the field of economics and what it actually means to be an economist… No way that was easy. But hopefully there’s something reasonable for everyone www.hgsss.org/the-henry-ge...

So, what is your strategy to reviewing such a paper for a leading journal in your field?

The big conversation - taking place now at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social - discussing demographics, development, inequality, perceptions in / of #China with @brankomilan.bsky.social @janetgornick.bsky.social & others on the panel.

Is there a link between the type of exports (primary commodities) / the currency they are traded in and macroeconomic development? Read: open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

Inequalities in new capitalism.

Is there a link between the type of exports (primary commodities) / the currency they are traded in and macroeconomic development? Read: open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

"one thing is clear -- commodities prices will continue in their volatility" - new Substack proseontherocks.substack.com/p/commoditie...

HOT OFF THE PRESS! My review of Sebouh Aslanian's "Early Modernity and Mobility" .... with a strong flavor of #diaspora topic: from history to today across #Eurasia! Follow the link below for free access and spread the word! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WN2AF... FYU @yalepress.bsky.social

HOT OFF THE PRESS! My review of Sebouh Aslanian's "Early Modernity and Mobility" .... with a strong flavor of #diaspora topic: from history to today across #Eurasia! Follow the link below for free access and spread the word! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WN2AF... FYU @yalepress.bsky.social

Among economic reasons, Germany’s hyperinflation of the 1920s was a key factor leading to all the horror that would follow in the subsequent two decades… (economics matters & reading JM Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace mattered even more at the time)… [a flea market catch]

Clark, C. M. and A.V. Gevorkyan. 2020. Artificial Intelligence and Human Flourishing. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Vol. 79(4): 1307-1344 doi.org/10.1111/ajes...

With Tarron Khemraj we explain how balancing gold holdings in a central bank reserves is a policy choice, especially in the context of maintaining a competitive exchange rate or currency stability for some emerging markets. Read / cite and share, plz: doi.org/10.1080/1540...

Today's substack is on diaspora bond's (Ireland was first): some history, some econ development, and a lot of caution... READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/on-diaspor...

The lack of attention by fast print academic publishers to details, in this case a map, though minor, almost devalues the entire research effort… Unorthodox spellings aside, Armenia and Georgia swapping places on this map is a new mystic twist in the Caucasus cartography….

"Yes, they were all socialist but they were very different socialist economies,..." new substack proseontherocks.substack.com/p/was-there-...

"Yes, they were all socialist but they were very different socialist economies,..." new substack proseontherocks.substack.com/p/was-there-...

My new substack - reading 'Behind the Iron Curtain' --- "History is annoying in how it uncovers inconvenient realities of the past. " @springernature.com @springer.springernature.com proseontherocks.substack.com/p/was-there-...

My new substack - reading 'Behind the Iron Curtain' --- "History is annoying in how it uncovers inconvenient realities of the past. " @springernature.com @springer.springernature.com proseontherocks.substack.com/p/was-there-...

Someone 'asked' #AI to create a podcast summarizing one of my earlier (co-authored) articles on... AI ))) It actually turned out quite nicely, so take a list here if prefer to avoid reading much text (link to the original article in comments): drive.google.com/file/d/161zT...

NEW! With Samar Issa we construct a Lebanese #diaspora survey to explore the inner motivation on diaspora-homeland engagement. Read it via Review of Dev Econ. Please share and cite! doi.org/10.1111/rode...

Friday challenge: Hegel’s dialectic - a nice read/summary contrasting formal logic with dialectics. open.substack.com/pub/colinbod...

Some relfections (last year’s and yet still hold) on the dialectics of small post-socialist economy; few localized / some general for all… proseontherocks.substack.com/p/indifference

NEW! With Samar Issa we construct a Lebanese #diaspora survey to explore the inner motivation on diaspora-homeland engagement. Read it via Review of Dev Econ. Please share and cite! doi.org/10.1111/rode...

We are back in the #gold market world...gold is doing what gold does in times of uncertainty and volatility, as central banks are adding the metal to their international reserves portfolios. This makes sense beyond some intuitive general reactions... www.ft.com/content/0d17...

A follow up to our June 11th webinar on diaspora bonds in Guyana open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

We are back in the #gold market world...gold is doing what gold does in times of uncertainty and volatility, as central banks are adding the metal to their international reserves portfolios. This makes sense beyond some intuitive general reactions... www.ft.com/content/0d17...

Today's substack is on diaspora bond's (Ireland was first): some history, some econ development, and a lot of caution... READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/on-diaspor...

How History Matters in Post-Socialist Economies, still part 1 "Though it has been suggested that ‘The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin’ it was “Wind of Change” by Scorpions in the early 1991 that captured the minds of the new generation of CEE and the FSU." proseontherocks.substack.com/p/how-histor...

There's a new book out, read it! @brankomilan.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

The program for the 15th annual conference of the Armenian Economic Association is out and it's bigger than before! Please register and we will see you in Armenia! aea.am/annual-meeti...

Here we go: 🕺 give a talk on #diaspora bond, warn of risks/challenges & say Don't Do It --> and Guyana Business Journal does a tour de force summary & applied analysis related to #Guyana! That & the AI sketch ))) [link in comments] guyanabusinessjournal.com/2025/05/dias...

How History Matters in Post-Socialist Economies, still part 1 "Though it has been suggested that ‘The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin’ it was “Wind of Change” by Scorpions in the early 1991 that captured the minds of the new generation of CEE and the FSU." proseontherocks.substack.com/p/how-histor...

Here we go: 🕺 give a talk on #diaspora bond, warn of risks/challenges & say Don't Do It --> and Guyana Business Journal does a tour de force summary & applied analysis related to #Guyana! That & the AI sketch ))) [link in comments] guyanabusinessjournal.com/2025/05/dias...

In the dust of big quarrels, there's a group of economies that is "overlooked"... an attempt to motivate a meaningful discussion on their fate [archives, subscribe to Prose on the Rocks & plz share] proseontherocks.substack.com/p/the-overlo...

We have TWO new chapters in @oxfordunipress.bsky.social Handbook of Post-Socialist Economies! Please start reading and recommend to your libraries to continue to build the knowledge base on small open post-socialist economies! doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Is there a more recent analysis/update to publishing in leading economics journals or maybe other sources? cepr.org/voxeu/column...

AI's takeover of academic publishing... via @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/chat...

“The following day the red table would be out again and city life would resume its cycle. There is no end to history. For now…” open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

The red table - from the archives - some prose on life in a large town in a small country from the post-transition world… open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

A new (and timely) chapter by Gohar Sedrakyan on the complexities of the international trade across post-socialist CEE & FSU in the @oxfordunipress.bsky.social Handbook of Post-Socialist Economies! [please recommend to your libraries!] doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Updated the #TransitionEconomies vs. world chart with @IMFNews World Economic Outlook data

Three+ decades of reforms... are the smallest of the #TransitionEconomies there yet? [data from WDI]

Happy Easter! from the Armenian Church of the Holy Martyrs in Bayside, Queens where #diaspora continues with hope

Of all the business majors, it is Economics that delivers the highest mid-career (but also early career) earning, whether it's in Top 10 or Top 20...etc... says Payscale www.payscale.com/college-sala...

Briefly about REVIEWER - 2 referee report... 🤦‍♂️.... suggestions from experience are welcome

An essential essay by @brankomilan.bsky.social. But the essay calls for more than travel / explore / engage w real world & true subject of one's research. The essay, in its nuance, calls for an open mind of a true scholar, picking up a challenge of learning new & re-learning - and that's hard...

Is #NYC making a comeback in terms of office occupancy? via Kastle Systems www.kastle.com/safety-welln...