Just finished. Fantastic book. What a cool woman. I hadn’t realized she was so personally close to the Roosevelts or that she was involved in HUAC stuff.

There are literally parents who learned what a blowjob is because of Bill Clinton news in the 90s who are parenting kids right now who will learn what a blowjob is because of Bill Clinton news in the 2020s. 🤦

I have a paper on James M. Buchanan’s work on urban public finance (bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...) and a big concern at the time was what suburbanization and a fleeing tax base did to budgets. He applied club theory and worried about the rich fleeing.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

When people say the Phillips Curve doesn’t exist they typically mean either: 1. The long run Phillips Curve is not the same shape as the short run Phillips Curve. 2. The Phillips Curve’s parameters are not a fixed law (it can shift). 3. Sometimes we’re on a flat portion of the Phillips Curve.

Scientific collaboration between the US and China is tremendous boon to both countries, to science, and to humanity. Who could possibly benefit from disrupting it?

I know Kirk said this particular thing but on the broader point it’s so weird that the right is so sharply juxtaposing Kirk with Carlson/Fuentes. TPUSA was notorious for being open to antisemites and racists that was like one of the spaces where this stuff first started getting mainstreamed.

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

I think the events of the last twenty four hours makes this an obviously ridiculous thing to say. Might you have to do some additional investigation around those emails? Sure, of course. But the idea that the content isn’t important is crazy talk.

What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation

TSA is in a very, very good mood this morning 😁

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of New Keynesian economics until we figure out what's going on.

OK real talk: I get criticism in my history of economics work for being interested in the whole person and thinking some of the less savory stuff can be relevant to understanding economics as a real human endeavor. So: how do we think about Larry Summers and the history of New Keynesian economics?

🎵God bless the USA 🎶

I always figured some version of Russiagate was real and I always figured being compromised with respect to Epstein was real, but I have to admit I didn't really expect those two overlapped.

New Yorkers can do what they want obviously, but are we not all collectively a little sick of Kennedys at this point? www.bbc.com/news/article...

And maybe “data” is too much… even just a good discussion of it, whether it was common, etc

Is there good data on how many assistant professors in the 1960s were hired while they were ABD?

This Veterans Day I want to acknowledge the Black veterans of WWII who fought fascism and nazism and came home to fight for civil rights and democracy here. New research shows Black veterans were critical in securing the voting rights currently under attack. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I desperately want this to end. It’s stupid, it hurts people, it’s a gigantic waste, and yes it affects me personally. I have a lot of sympathy for Senate Dems in that sense. But the timing is weird. A week ago I would not expect them to be the ones caving.

Arlington, VA, 1995. A Macbeth performance for the ages.

PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown

I’m not sure that this is a bad idea but if you passed a law guaranteeing back pay you don’t need a new law to “ensure” that back pay.

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

My man is veering dangerously close to Kavanaugh stop territory

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Googling suggests 3% of men in a community are sexual predators so if "over a dozen" out of 1,500 are sexual predators that's probably (depending on what "over a dozen" means) lower than national rates, and certainly not significantly higher.

My paper on W.E.B. Du Bois and marginalist wage theory is out at the Journal of Economic Perspectives! This was a fun and fascinating paper to write. I’ll try to do a thread on it soon. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Article: W. E. B. Du Bois, Harvard Economics, and Marginalist Wage Theory, by Daniel Kuehn www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

After the Unite the Right rally my mentor - a Jewish man who lost family in the Holocaust - referenced Obama’s penchant for quoting MLK and said bluntly “I don’t know what they’re talking about, there’s no fucking arc of history and it certainly doesn’t always bend towards justice.”

It seems good that Musk is such a dweeb, imagine if he were actually impressive or commendable as a person. You’d have a lot more people justifying obscene inequality if he were a decent guy.

There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

New paper on W.H. Hutt's analysis of Nazi economic policy in two unpublished lectures. Hutt provides a nice case study for thinking about the diversity of neoliberal thinking on "liberal dictators." His analysis is idiosyncratic, which I think makes it interesting! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This stuff cascades too. Once the dam breaks, there's no going back. Hard to say precisely what that gets us. Perhaps not enough independence to get impeachment votes. But it's definitely better than what we have now.

My paper on W.E.B. Du Bois and marginalist wage theory is out at the Journal of Economic Perspectives! This was a fun and fascinating paper to write. I’ll try to do a thread on it soon. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Achievement unlocked: met Arin Dube in person tonight!

New paper on W.H. Hutt's analysis of Nazi economic policy in two unpublished lectures. Hutt provides a nice case study for thinking about the diversity of neoliberal thinking on "liberal dictators." His analysis is idiosyncratic, which I think makes it interesting! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I love how FFX Now reports Cheney’s death.

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

I said this early on but I’m not a socialist by any stretch and if I were a New Yorker Mamdani would not be my ideal candidate, but we’re in times where it matters if you’re a good person, it matters if you stand up for civil rights and the rule of law…

Join me live as I deliver remarks tonight from Richmond: www.youtube.com/live/Tp_iema...

Byrd Organization numbers… but good!

With those bomb threats earlier today I was worried there’d be active undermining of the results as a prelude to the midterms but that seems impossible at this point. On the other site they seem to be scoffing at the outcome as a mistake but not challenging it. This bodes well for the midterms.

I’m no longer in Arlington but have deep roots there and I’m proud to see it!

Dems in ARRAY

I could kinda see how Democrats close to Cuomo personally might withhold an endorsement of Mamdani. I don’t think parties should be so lockstep that that’s considered out of bounds. But leadership not endorsing is pretty lame. Why lead a party if you don’t want it to win?

[Ashokan Farewell] Dearest mother...