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Re the airport discourse: do whatever makes you happy and comfortable (arrive 5 hours in advance, 30 minutes...), and do not presume your preferences and circumstances constitute valuable lessons for the rest

NEW: This morning, the Trump admin is set to start the process of refunding $166 billion in illegal tariffs. Many questions await this new, hastily assembled system, including how easy it'll be for business -- and whether they'll share refunds with consumers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

Esta foto también nos habla de cómo ha cambiado la cultura del evento. Bowie no llenó el Calderón en su 1ª vez en España. Costaba 3.000 pesetas, un 7% del salario mínimo mensual en 1987, similar al 8% que en 2026 suponen 100€ para uno de los 10 Metropolitanos de Bad Bunny.

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I’m very happy to share that my first paper has been accepted for publication 🎉 Together with my great co-author Nayeon Lim we look at early public childcare in Germany. More details and the paper link below 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Published! "[My work has been] in dialogue with two powerful minds, Quentin Skinner and István Hont... Over those six decades, I have made two discoveries that I still think really matter". Read the autobiographical reflections of John Dunn here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's harder to measure but I feel like RFK Jnr shutting down funding for MRNA research is actually up there with DOGE cuts and this latest Iranian war as a contender for Most Evil Things Trump II has done. Accounted properly, this regime is really wracking up 20th-century-dictator kill counts imo.

It might be my "non-R1 mentality" at play, but I always find it incredibly useful to spend time with tasks that many probably outsource to research assistants. E.g., a deep dive into the data (and cleaning) teaches a lot about the possibilities and issues for the empirical analysis

No quiero enamoraros pero he escrito esto sobre cómo la idea de salud contemporánea es fascista porque busca imponer una higiene moral Está todo: ultraprocesados, azúcar, therians, pantallas, homeschooling, depravación sexual. Me gustaría mucho que lo leyerais 🔥 www.newtral.es/maha-moms-ex...

“Trump and the IRS are in talks to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit” - Oh, crap *reads more* “Trump has said that he would donate any received funds from the IRS lawsuit to charity” - Oh, well… *thinks more* - Oh, crap www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

All who are NOT at the conference: You can scan this QR code and order Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship with the 40% conference discount putting the book's cost at $17.99. Go to that page and then search for my book by title.

The three stages of life: 1. Too young 2. Too busy 3. Too old

It’s all well and good for tech leaders to endorse UBI. But it feels convenient to only focus on a distant political prospect. The GOP, right now, is doing reverse-UBI (work requirements on SNAP). It’d be nice to hear more objections to that.

Utah public schools have already banned 32 books, including one by Toni Morrison www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

I’m afraid I’m getting more involved in this football/soccer cards thing than my 8 year old for whom this theoretically started

J'ai réalisé pour @franceculture.fr un podcast sur l'histoire des méthodes que les économistes ont développé pour donner une valeur, ou un prix, aux "choses de la vie" depuis 100 ans La série de 10 (courts) épisodes est ici: www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

"Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want. So, tell me what you want, what you really really want."

We are proud to announce that @emilianotravieso.bsky.social, a member of the Juan Linz Institute, has recently been awarded the Nicholas Crafts early career award in Econ or Social History, granted by the Economic History Society. ehs.org.uk/award/nichol... Congratulations Emiliano! Well deserved

I think the general drying up of social media might be a healthy thing for me. It has become a constant idle distraction when I really should be focusing on my fantasy football team.

De esto hablamos cuando decimos que nos están robando Madrid. Aquí el informe completo: teestanrobandomadrid.org

Vaya retrato. Brutal.

My guess would have been quoting an AI-hallucinated Bible verse, so in a sense, he exceeded expectations

It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.

PSA: Withdrawal syndrome symptoms

Sneak peek of a project we have been working on for a while 👀 ⏲️More soon! @politiquesupf.bsky.social @pauvallprat.bsky.social @diegomartin-916.bsky.social

Youre not alone thinking this. @redpenblackpen.bsky.social from a while ago, my favorite 🤩

the endless "oooh damn this looks awesome">"darn it there's a fundamental error; kill me now">"fixing that error will ruin the whole paper; woe is me">"fixing the error made the paper even better; yay me">"oooh damn this looks awesome" pipeline 😎😱😫🤩😎

Bayern Munich is me going to an airport: someone should warn them they aren’t late to anything (quite the opposite)

Big Danish study (1.5M+ children) in JAMA Pediatrics finds no association between autism and Tylenol consumption during pregnancy. If anything, the link is the other way: Autism was diagnosed in 1.8% of exposed children and 3% of unexposed children.

It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.

My book (!) How Economics Discovered Women is now available for pre-order from the University of California Press. The book is a survey and critique of how the economics of gender has developed since the mid-1970s. www.ucpress.edu/books/how-ec...

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

Visca el Barça! 💙♥️

Toddlers may say they do not want to brush or buckle up, but adults overrule them because they know best. Why not so with spinach or fish?

I received the new directive from the State of Utah for the US Economic History class that I regularly teach

Cristóbal Martínez Bordiú, yerno de Franco y marqués de Villaverde

Every rich country politician who is subsidizing fossil fuel use (read: cutting fuel taxes) is maximizing the suffering of people in these countries. A spectacularly awful policy on every level.

Getting a bit too nervous/excited/anxious about tonight

Mi mujer (mexicana) a veces me ha preguntado por qué “República Argentina” es un nombre bastante común* en el urbanismo español (avenidas, plazas, transporte público…). Me temo que esta puede ser la razón *no puedo precisar lo común que es, pero también me lo parece desde mi experiencia personal

The real football peace prize

The successful open-heart surgery demonstrates that the condition wasn’t that life threatening

I just paid to the IRS more than Trump did in 2016-17 www.forbes.com/sites/nichol...

Un problema del análisis de alguna izquierda es que a menudo confunde conservadurismo y reaccionarismo, convencida de que "democracia" son unas políticas concretas, cuando en realidad son unas reglas de juego. La democracia solo es formalidad. Como la civilización. El triunfo ha sido histórico.

I need JD Vance to visit Atlético de Madrid before Tuesday’s game

And another leader fell after Trump's and Vance's kiss of death