now the residents of Gorton and Denton know how those Maricopa County folks feel

🎙️ 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

tit 4 2 tats

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

Two rival chefs somehow oddly fond of one another must keep their restaurants going amidst a power outage, using leftovers. Reheated Rivalry

Two game theorists cannot agree on the refinement concept for equilibrium selection but they will always keep playing. Repeated rivalry

please check out this fantastic thread on films that touch upon health economics

i teach Black Girl (1966) in my Economics and Cinema class, and look forward to watching the ones i haven't seen yet

“Demonising migrants and refugees collectively as criminals, threats, or burdens on society—based on their origin, nationality or migration status—is inhuman, wrong…The U.S. has the obligation to comply with international human rights law and international refugee law.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Pittsburgh is the fanciest because we get a philosopher as the interlocutor @kevinzollman.com

this postdoc advertised at philosophy, political science, and economics looks interesting. apply here: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/60762

Many discussions about 🇪🇺 tech sovereignty. 👇🏻 A fascinating aspect, sometimes overlooked, is the public's behavioral reaction to MAGA: e.g., how many people and institutions will drop PayPal and use Wero? (A coordination problem where every user attracts others.) werotracker.eu

Anyone who is thinking about controversial markets/repugnance should read this short, expert dissection of some central tensions through the lens of blood plasma.

would there be interest in a bsky film club where we take turns picking a film to watch and discuss? @economeager.bsky.social @sanpages.bsky.social @valeriaburdea.bsky.social @antoinevernet.com @dandekadt.bsky.social @blmckean.bsky.social

you say that like it’s a bad thing: Nina Hoss and Sandra Hüller in every film directed by Ade and Akin and Petzhold; Murnau, Lang, Fassbinder, von Trotta, Herzog, Wenders, et al. retrospectives every weekend, Die Toten Hosen blasting at every (real) football game, Kraftwerk at the clubs …

when @economeager.bsky.social tells me to read a post, i read it. when they tell me to watch a film, i watch it. when they tell me to watch a hockey show, i wait for the ensuing droll comments.

i used to take ~1hr NJ Transit into NYC just to watch films in grad school and it was glorious

Quick question for social science friends (esp. political science and economics): what would you say are "competitors" to game theory? I.e. what are theoretical frameworks that are different from game theory but trying to attack the same problems? Note: they don't have to be good, just competitors.

i know @dandekadt.bsky.social has lots of important and helpful things to say on this topic. his resource page www.ddekadt.com/graduate-stu... (aimed at poli sci) is also good.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Slightly diminish a game: Terraforming Earth

Folks, make sure to subscribe to The Taboo Trades podcast for the type of racy content that has been banned from X & Meta. And you thought it was just a bunch of boring academics talking about their papers 🤦‍♀️

The meeting of the Procrastination Society of America has been postponed.

Anticipation #econsky #philosophy marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/01/what...

the meeting of the Society for Inexact Philosophy will be held some time in 2026 at an university

Pitt three-year postdoc: primary responsibilities will be managing PEEL lab; postdoc will be an integral member of Econ dept. and join a large team of behavioral/experimental economists, attending/presenting in seminars, and pushing forward own research agenda #econsky www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

For decades, John was the best experimental economist in the world. #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/01/john...

NEW we are hiring 2-3 Postdocs in Social & Decision Neuroscience (SDN) at Caltech. The posting is here www.hss.caltech.edu/about/job-op... Applications are due 15 February 2026. Our core group in SDN is RAdolphs, me, DMobbs, JO'Doherty, and ARangel. Our track record of postdoc success is strong

www.legacy.com/us/obituarie... John Kagel cultivated the experimental lab and culture at Pitt that we still enjoy. we all know his auction expts, but he also had a long-standing interest in animal behavior, e.g. Demand Curves for Animal Consumers, Commodity-Choice Behavior with Pigeons as Subjects

if only there was a field that studied optimal allocation of resources under constraints and uncertainty. did anyone maybe even get a fancy award for working that out? (if i recall correctly, this is not the first time it's happened to NEA sessions. ASSA, please sort it out.)

which other Bayesian econometrician is going to tell you about the appearance of “self help” in an earlier Beowulf translation?

help: in this Spiegel interview, Werner Herzog mentions giving an opening address at the most important math congress in the US in the Spring. what is he referring to? any leads would be appreciated www.spiegel.de/kultur/werne...

NEW Handbook of Experimental [Economics] Methodology (Eds Erik Snowberg, Leatt Yariv) is out. shop.elsevier.com/books/handbo... chapter w Isabelle Brocas, Juan Carrillo label-laboratory.org + Ian Krajbich krajbichlab.psych.ucla.edu/people/ is about many ways to measure and cause choice processes

while he was known for broad and deep work on many topics, i, along with other behavioral economists, am especially thankful for "Psychological Expected Utility Theory and Anticipatory Feelings" www.jstor.org/stable/2696443 let me also mention a nice short method piece www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

another benefit: being in one of the best cities in the world

Check out the rest of Pitt JM candidate @jiaweilyu.bsky.social 's exciting research too: sites.google.com/view/jiaweil...

"Surely it doesn't need to be said that Paul Dano is one of our greatest actors. Anyone who doesn't get that doesn't know what acting is. He's also a brilliant director and writer, a very snappy dresser, and a gigantic mensch." --Tony Kushner

She also has a nice paper with Yiming Liu (former Pitt PhD), Cappelen, and Tungodden, R+R at MS, that finds underestimation of the role of unequal opportunities in people's mental models of inequality. drive.google.com/file/d/1i1m1...

Reminder: last day to submit to the JEBO issue in honor of @cfcamerer.bsky.social We are excited about all the great submissions we have gotten thus far.