one of my favorite genres on SM: philosophers responding to everything from the most mundane to the most sublime with philosophers

The populations in East&West Germany were far from being randomly selected groups: 1. the later border is already visible in pre-WWII data 2. WWII & the subsequent occupying forces affected East & West differently 3. a selective fifth fled from East 2 West Germany before the building of the Wall

on the one hand, finally some much-needed change. on the other hand, the line-up at some of these festivals might start to look very different for better or worse …

i am seeing posts from this account pop up on my tl so important FYI

Types of Board Game xkcd.com/3235/

Is this prompted by the latest issue of JEL or just a wild coincidence? www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

give @joshtasoff.bsky.social a follow. how many economists have written papers about millions of League of Legends matches? docs.iza.org/dp16877.pdf

you will never guess why Aumann was initially invoked

here's one for @sweiwang.bsky.social

Hello #EconSky hive mind! Do you have a paper where you compute a welfare measure using an economic experiment and a structural model? I'm looking for examples for my book. Things like certainty equivalents, consumer surplus, and so on.

what i especially appreciate about these lessons is the transparency about not only what goes wrong but also why so that we can better anticipate what might go awry in our own projects.

where’s the shoe? www.instagram.com/p/DWuAQj-jHHp/

Two thoughtful essays about the impact of LLMs on graduate education: ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma... economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul... From personal experience I think the self-control problem mentioned in the first essay is very real.

lots for experimental economists to reflect upon in this piece

when you prompt the LLM to p-hack

economists, if you want to understand how some sociologists may feel about economics, just remember your reaction to econophysics.

has Winston Churchill ever converted stream corridors to persistent carbon sinks? www.nature.com/articles/s43...

new "correlation is not causation" video just dropped

with this fantastic group of organizers, i have no doubt it will be an amazing conference.

📢 Call for Papers: 2026 Workshop on Cognitive Economics 📢 We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for the 2026 Workshop on Cognitive Economics, taking place on 24–25 August 2026 in Herrsching am Ammersee.

So weird: there's more than one scammy memorial site inviting donations or tree-planting in my dad's memory. We are not asking for that, but if people feel moved, donations in lieu of flowers to www.aclu-mn.org, www.aclu.org, or www.eff.org Econ folks, can you help get the word out?

The "25+ years of quantal response equilibrium" special issue of Games and Economic behavior is now officially out! I am delighted to have two publications in this issue. One on applying Bayesian techniques to QRE, and another on how to compute and estimate it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I only knew Chris Sims' work, and I wish I had got to meet him. But to the extent that we know something of each other through what we put out in the world, here is my personal biased favourite of his: Why Econometrics Should Always and Everywhere Be Bayesian sims.princeton.edu/yftp/EmetSoc...

R.I.P. Chris Sims essence of him right here (start at 8:36 if link doesn't work) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVIO...

Chris Sims was the first to introduce some of us to Bayesian econometrics in graduate school, and i always wished that i had known enough and was smart enough to receive his wisdom. we will continue to learn what he was trying to teach us. here he is in his own words: www.princeton.edu/~sims/

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.

in honor of international women's day, the immortal, pathbreaking work of Maryam Mirzakhani (first woman to win the Fields Medal) on hyperbolic surfaces is carried on by Nalini Anantharaman, Laura Monk, and others www.quantamagazine.org/years-after-...

So sad #academicsky #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/big-...

Alysa Liu name drops the anterior midcingulate cortex (aMCC) in this Teen Vogue interview (oversimplications aside, a fun one) www.teenvogue.com/story/alysa-...

what about “Iron Maiden” name: name you would have as a heavy metal rocker?

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE 1996-97 CASBS fellow David Card chats w/2024-25 fellow @dyligent.bsky.social on the innovative empirical work on the labor market effects of immigration, minimum wages & education that earned Card the Nobel Prize in economics in 2021 🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#davi...

Congratulations to Charles Manski on winning the BBVA Frontiers Award for his foundational contributions to partial identification, semiparametric methods, subjective expectations, social interactions and policy decision-making under uncertainty www.premiosfronterasdelconocimiento.es/noticias/xvi...

Just to say the policymakers would be wise to always consider the scholarly level of their advisors. Among colleagues, Ulrike Malmendier is known to be a heavy hitter like very few on this planet.

NEW Summer School in Theory-based Experimental Economics + follow-on conference @Caltech 15-19 June 2026 Please spread the word.

Really honored to be appearing here and to celebrate the great Colin Camerer @sweiwang.bsky.social @cfcamerer.bsky.social

How great! So useful to have the 22yrs later perspective

incredible things are happening at the Winter Olympics

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spoiler alert: this is one of the papers that will be included in the JEBO issue in honor of @cfcamerer.bsky.social stay tuned for more great papers in the issue.

the Winter Games: where dares become Olympic events

just going to pretend that correlation = causation for once dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

I now know what blurbs will be on the back cover of Moral Economics. They are by Peter Singer, Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo, Claudia Goldin, and Paul Milgrom & Bob Wilson, all people whose work I admire more than I can say. #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/02/mora...

i also love research on prediction markets, and that's why we should be listening to @cfcamerer.bsky.social instead of the cheerleaders on equilibrium effects

What a stellar lineup including @economeager.bsky.social and Taisuke Imai for this exciting Summer School on Bayesian Methods for Experimental Economics in Rabat summerschoolbmee.netlify.app