Noel Johnson
@ndjohnson.bsky.social
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Professor of Economics at GMU.
https://noeldjohnson.github.io
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Paul Krugman
about 9 hours ago
Something new: A short video responding to the Trump administration saying that economists whose studies arenāt what they want to hear should be ādisciplinedā
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZd...
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Now Trumpists are menacing economists
YouTube video by Paul Krugman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZdxmSmBaM
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Jacob T. Levy
about 11 hours ago
How about if instead of onerous ID requirements on voters we institute constitutional literacy tests for members of Congress?
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Josh Marshall
1 day ago
This is the opposite of what is about as close as you get to an objective fact in economics.
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Lunar new year dumpling making!
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i love technological progress. I just got back into astronomy. Took these using a 50 mm apo triplet from my front yard in a bortle 8 area.
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Things are getting weird guys. This ad just popped up for me while reading The Economist.
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Guggenheim Collection
9 days ago
Black Lines by Vasily Kandinsky, 1913
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137402
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Itās cold outside!
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Christoph Kronenberg
20 days ago
For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by
@caroartc.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
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Did a podcast on my research with
@malikaltaf.bsky.social
on the 1857 Rebellion, British massacres, and smallpox vaccine hesitancy in Colonial India.
open.spotify.com/episode/6Qfw...
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Noel Johnson and Vaccines in Colonial India
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6QfwWChYF1UYjCGghSp5m5?si=tIlVYQ18RgOMzyGDYfFunA
about 1 month ago
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Iām getting strong Simpsons used car salesman vibes off this email I just receivedā¦
www.instagram.com/reel/DRI_k11...
about 2 months ago
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Iāve seen a new thing.
#tentonatesla
about 2 months ago
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Iām about 100 pages in, but so far this book is fantastic!
www.amazon.com/Furious-Mind...
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Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right [Field, Laura K.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
https://www.amazon.com/Furious-Minds-Making-MAGA-Right/dp/0691255261/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2IQTNSS5ROTZ1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.JqUIe-ztaAdu8m7nloECa67E_ENaG4zN0-17WzwrxrRZMtpnxqhEWI4eOLo860jOgKqAaxfvB-BITqsK520R5Q.ECCshvO9-KXmKEwPh9vbDJCdvFyHw78VXEnWj7QeCmU&dib_tag=se&keywords=laura+field+furious+minds&qid=1767298504&sprefix=laura+fur%2Caps%2C187&sr=8-1
about 2 months ago
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Everybody! Iāve found the guiding document adopted by university administratorsā¦
www.cia.gov/static/5c875...
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https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf?ref=thebrowser.com
3 months ago
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Mauricio Drelichman
3 months ago
A
@voxdev.bsky.social
column on the impact of public education through the lens of economic history, by my (former) student Ben Milner
@benjaminlm.bsky.social
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voxdev.org/topic/educat...
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How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
The 1870 Education Act demonstrates how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children.
https://voxdev.org/topic/education/how-public-education-transforms-opportunity-evidence-1870-education-act?brid=qw11iaoh6XVuRrrrlPX2kA
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James Feigenbaum
3 months ago
I liked it better when the goal of an econ phd first year was to survive MWG and avoid embarrassing yourself too many times in class
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Alex Taylor
3 months ago
How did France become one of Europeās biggest printers of vernacular books, and how did it shape its linguistic and political development? My paper w/Jacob Hall, "The Kingās French," shows how a 1539 language mandate changed printing, standardized French, and strengthened national identity. (1/12)
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Jens Notroff
3 months ago
All roads lead to Rome, they say. - And finally you too can find out if that's true! š With "The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads",
#Itiner-e
, a high-resolution dataset and detailed map created in a collaborative ongoing project:
www.newscientist.com/article/2503...
via
@newscientist.com
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Digital map lets you explore the Roman Empire's vast road network
Archaeologists have compiled the most detailed map yet of roads throughout the Roman Empire in AD 150, totalling almost 300,000 kilometres in length
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2503325-digital-map-lets-you-explore-the-roman-empires-vast-road-network/?fbclid=IwY2xjawN-ZmdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETBVbndOWHk5RjMyVlMwWHFxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHiKxMTJm1aeroMdOAe0JrEglsHlKBfkHJRgiyTaNVCU0uhJN6XdlzjghzN16_aem_9Id77IRtKyl1nkRIFHi-8A
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P David Boll
4 months ago
šØ New Version šØ The new and extended version of our paper on dealing with spatial unit roots in regressions, now *forthcoming at the Stata Journal* under a new title! w/
@essobecker.bsky.social
@jvoth.bsky.social
Relevant to anyone who uses spatial data ! Link and more information inš§µ(1/n)
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I love random discoveries. I've been listening to this album a lot recently.
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Bernard Hughes: Music for Mixed Voices
https://open.spotify.com/album/3pfs0bJmaRXb9T3piFI3JC?si=A3XIW3f3S0GEIGtTMMk1NA
4 months ago
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Patrick Schmidt
4 months ago
I've been thinking a lot lately of a quote from Leo Strauss: A theoretical crisis does not necessarily lead to a practical crisis. The Constitution has collapsed as a meaningful organizing framework for American politics, but like the Roman Senate meeting in 603AD, some things keep going.
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Matthew Yglesias
4 months ago
Guy whose concern about the No Kings rally is that thereās a lot of evidence constitutional monarchies do a better job than republics of avoiding personalistic politics.
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Sascha O. Becker
4 months ago
"No way I am going to retire. Even if my students are retiring, not me." ā¤ļø
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Congrats to Joel Mokyr on the Nobel Prize. I'll take this opportunity highlight one of his less mentioned works: "Demand vs Supply in the Industrial Revolution". A great example of how to combine theory with history.
tinyurl.com/yv8ed8mj
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Dropbox
https://tinyurl.com/yv8ed8mj
4 months ago
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Mauricio Drelichman
4 months ago
Elated at Joel Mokyr's Nobel Prize! You can find numerous accounts -now multiplying by the minute- of his scholarly contributions. Today I want to celebrate the man and the mentor.
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Pseudoerasmus
4 months ago
Mokyr's work could not have been done today in most economics departments, but the irony is that his work would not fit in history departments today, either. Methodologically he seems more 'history' than 'economics' to economists, but the content and reasoning are too 'economics' for most historians
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I just checked JOE and I count 3 adds for economic history positions (Iām not counting the āany fieldsā). There seems to be a bit of a gulf between what the Nobel committee is recognizing and what Econ departments think they should be doing.
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4 months ago
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Erik Angner
4 months ago
That's like four economics awards in a row with a substantial economic-history component, right? That strikes me as a remarkable shift.
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists...
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Thanks for the heads up "K9 advantix II large dog". For use on dogs only. Got it.
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James Medlock
4 months ago
āIāll declare war on you if you donāt give me the peace prizeā is an incredible bit
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Patrick Fitzsimmons
5 months ago
Was thrilled to write this for
@broadstreetblog.bsky.social
(which I recommend for anyone interested in historical political economy)
www.broadstreet.blog/p/blood-and-...
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Blood and Iron: Political Fragmentation in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
How new technology reshaped the political equilibrium of the early Iron Age through violence.
https://www.broadstreet.blog/p/blood-and-iron-political-fragmentation?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Science marches on. Also, Iām not eating this.
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5 months ago
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Daniel Bergstresser
5 months ago
questions mount
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Pierre Bourdieu was on to somethingā¦
#theinheritors
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Guido Alfani
5 months ago
The recording of the Tawney Lecture on "Economic Inequality and Social Mobility in Preindustrial Societies", which I had the honour to deliver in Glasgow last spring, is now online! Thanks
@echistsoc.bsky.social
for inviting me.
ehs.org.uk/multimedia/t...
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Tawney Lecture 2025: Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies - Economic History Society
https://ehs.org.uk/multimedia/tawney-lecture-2025-economic-inequality-and-social-mobility-in-preindustrial-societies/
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Melissa Thomasson
5 months ago
Itās always great to see that the world supply of soy (or virtually any other commodity) is indeed perfectly elastic. Gotta say that this tariff brought in a heap of revenue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
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China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, Itās $0.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/business/china-soybean-sales-farmers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.o08.v3t2.OBWWWdBOx3BH&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Jacob T. Levy
5 months ago
This is The Dumb Place.
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Pseudoerasmus
5 months ago
From a new paper by
@mjdcurtis.bsky.social
, David de la Croix, et al. The Little Divergence in 'academic human capital' (kind of publications index) btw northern & southern Europe started ca 1500. Northern Germany diverged from central & southern German areas after the Thirty Years' War.
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Working at the office today and somebody put the following out for free on the break room table. Nice try. Iāve been in this game long enough to know when some phd student in the experimental group is running a behavioral study.
5 months ago
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Pseudoerasmus
5 months ago
I was going to tweet this last year but somehow I was impeded⦠āWhen [economic] growth does, and does not, reduce povertyā
www.bii.co.uk/en/news-insi...
ā A great literature review by a team including
@paddycarter.bsky.social
and
@paulsegal.bsky.social
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When your little cousinās new bed looks more attractive than your old oneā¦
5 months ago
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Sometimes the Devil tempts you and you just have to force yourself to look away.
6 months ago
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Scott Horton
6 months ago
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
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Pseudoerasmus
6 months ago
There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading āEconomic History of the Scientific Revolutionā but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an āepidemiologicalā model of how ideas spread like disease
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The good news is that my Wife need never worry again about me taking my wedding band off. The bad news is that jiu jitsu is still really difficult and my guard passing sucks (which is why I jammed my fingers into the mat really, really, hard).
6 months ago
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I bought these two guys during COVID lockdown. Just transplanted them to bigger pots. Feels like a win for everybody.
6 months ago
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One thought I have when I read various hand wringing commentaries about Professors using AI to grade papers is that theyāre being a little precious regarding the quality of human TA graders (let alone the grading of the professors themselves).
6 months ago
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Stephan Heblich
6 months ago
Thank you for the excellent coverage of our article,
@economist.com
! You can find the full piece here:
nber.org/papers/w33976
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GƔbor BƩkƩs
6 months ago
I believe we can teach data analysis/ econometrics with Python. From OLS to machine learning and event studies. Scripts for 42 case studies.
#pyfixest
for regressions. (With Stata and R to compare) Check out the revised
Github.com/gabors-data-analysis/da_case_studies
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