Making abundance work for workers requires that we pay as much attention to those who build as to how much we build. My latest www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Seminars in Amsterdam (bike from Tinbergen Institute to restaurant with suitcase) and Utrecht 🇳🇱

Timeless wisdom. Applies to everyone, regardless of knowledge, ideology, and preferences.

Control of Syria, Arab Spring revolts (2011)—present: RED: Assad Regime, GREEN: Opponents, BLACK: ISIS, YELLOW: Kurds. x.com/profatak/sta...

Thinking today of Elizabeth Tsurkov, whom I never met personally but who wrote for us on several occasions. She was for years a must-read analyst on Syria's civil war and the armed groups fighting it until Kataib Hezbollah took her hostage in Baghdad ~2 yrs ago. I hope her captivity also ends soon.

The vast scale of brutal human sacrifice among the Aztecs, excising beating hearts from victims, is increasingly coming to light. The conquistador accounts may have been right after all. www.science.org/content/arti... via @science.org (2018)

Jay Bhattacharya is a great choice for leading NIH, which lost its way through wokeness. In 2020-22, he was censored and demonized for views that turned out to be right. As he predicted, lockdowns produced grave mental health and educational effects on children and young adults. (Photo: Stanford U)

The Economic Journal virtual issue 'Religion and Economics' out now. Featuring a foreword by Joint Managing Editor Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social. Last chance to view until early December 2024. 👉http://bit.ly/3yP3EXP #EconSky #Freetoview

Thrilled to announce the release of Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe with Cambridge UP 🎉🎉 The book argues that accommodating the displaced population can strengthen states and benefit local economies in the long run. 📚 [Amazon: tinyurl.com/24m2mbkf] See thread below:

In Turkey, male homicides have fallen but female homicides have increased. Why might this be? @gunesasik.bsky.social & Mocan suggest that withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention (which stands against GBV) signalled impunity… www.nber.org/papers/w33169

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