An intellectual giant and a wonderful, warm person in an otherwise very cold environment

Streaming films from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social even while on Thanksgiving break tinyurl.com/3h769dcf. Just make sure you authenticate tinyurl.com/yc5527mj. Check it Out! @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social

This was a lot of fun! I presented joint work w/ @luozhaotian.bsky.social & @spantoja.bsky.social asking “How Is a Dictatorship (Not) Like a Firm?” Both dictatorships and firms are hierarchical organizations, but there are some illuminating differences. Slides here 👇

Dick Nelson, pioneer in the economics of technical change, has died at 94. His remarkable book with Sid Winter (1982) An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change spawned many literatures. His edited the first "Rate and Direction" volume and wrote a history-based investigation of 1/2

This 1952 AJS Donald Roy paper was what first excited me about ethnography. I assign it to PhD students w/classic org econ theory. I've always wanted to ask Bob Gibbons, Baker, Holmstrom, Milgrom, Roberts, ect. if they had read this. Ethnography is a wellspring of theory & policy. #orgsky #econsky

Recommend orgs nerd camp highly! It’s a great experience trying to train yourself to speak in other disciplinary languages, and I still talk to members of my cohort regularly.