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alvarolaparra.bsky.social
Too economist to be a historian. Too historian to be an economist. My expressed ideas here are usually the slaves of some defunct economist, and my employer is alive and not an economist. Missing home, wherever that is.
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If you want an example of the failings of Community Notes, look no further than Musk spreading misinfo in the hours after the Minnesota shooting. The shooter has now been IDed as a Trump supporter. There is no community note on Musk or the original post he quotes.

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It's Time For Mike Lee To Resign. act.betterutah.org/sign/its-tim...

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🎙️ ¡Último episodio de Capital y Trabajo! Grabado en vivo y con público, nos acompañan @garciahdezana.bsky.social‬ y Jorge García Hombrados para hablar de La Bicicleta Verde (Wadja): una película pequeña, con temas enormes: bicicletas, género y aspiraciones. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Proud of my WSU Economics Chair’s op-ed www.standard.net/opinion/gues...

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Thrilled to share the program for the III Yale-UB HPE Workshop — a joint initiative bringing together HPE researchers across continents and disciplines. Huge thanks to our sponsors, presenters, and discussants. Can’t wait for a great conference! cc @cescamat.bsky.social (UB co-host)

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The circumstances of Salt Lake City’s killing during the No Kings march remain too weird. The highlighted passage is something I’ll never understand and will always deeply frighten me.

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Every time I get on this website I have to take 5 minutes to figure out if the world is literally about to end or if it's just Bluesky being Bluesky.

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“he’s both evil and stupid” www.unpopularfront.news/p/whats-left...

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“FIFA has decided not to show any videos, signage or marketing assets in venues hosting the Club World Cup in the United States which explicitly mention challenging racism or discrimination.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

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I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e

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Tonight, I introduced legislation to stop Trump from from leading us into an illegal war with Iran. Another war in the Middle East could cost countless lives, waste trillions more dollars, and lead to even more deaths, more conflict, and more displacement.

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Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics. Academic mothers are much more likely to... ◾temporarily leave the labor force ◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions. scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...

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My working paper on the conference submission deadline

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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

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Abortion restrictions after the overturning of Roe v. Wade have increased intimate partner violence against reproductive-aged women. "These estimates imply ... over $1.24 billion in social costs." www.nber.org/papers/w33916

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I wrote a new piece on how much progress has been made in treating childhood leukemia. The answer is: quite a lot! Before the 1970s, fewer than 10% of children diagnosed survived 5 years after diagnosis. Now most are cured and around 85% survive that long. ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

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The past really sticks. Even after 4 generations, your great-grandfather’s economic status still largely shapes your own. 👉 33% persistence across time for whites 👉 But racial inequality is the key driver The American Dream? More inherited than we thought. www.nber.org/papers/w33923

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Learning takes time (and must take time). The 2 hours are critical for thinking carefully about the problem, considering it from multiple perspectives, finding more interesting works and authors on the topic, and developing a solid understanding that will lead to more ideas and insights later on.

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Happy Father’s Day! We have lots of work ahead

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Salt Lake City No Kings march: 1 'critically injured,' 1 arrested www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

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Im fine. I believe everyone is fine and the shooter is in custody. These fucking racist fascist scumbags want to immediate us and we arent going to let them

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Party and die like it’s the early 1800s

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At midday Eastern Time, we have a crowdsourced, unofficial estimate of just over 32,000 people attending No Kings Day protests around the U.S. so far. Please join us and add more data as more events get going. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Mexico City #NoKings #NoTyrants

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ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

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Striking to see Dem electeds calling on people to join the NoKings protests.

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New piece and Chart of the Week: All the polls on immigration and the LA protests this week: - Where Americans stand on the protesters - How people feel about Trump’s use of federal troops - And Trump's immigration approval just fell to -1.3 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/all-the-po...

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The number of times I'm using the verb "to apostille" lately makes it clear I'm moving from the Anglo-Saxon to the Hispanic world

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It's a bad day to be a Spanish-American who pays attention and cares about politics

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Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

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George Borjas remains a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers www.whitehouse.gov/cea/informat...

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Get yourself to a protest this Saturday. Spread the word. Shit has escalated significantly in just a handful of days and we need to get out there and show big, collective anger about it. Don't break shit or start fights, just show up in numbers. www.nokings.org#map

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Where did it all go wrong? It started wrong. That’s the natural state. What we have to appreciate is how hard people had to work to make it right, in the brief periods when it was.

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What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s? The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly) Why? Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

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There are many evergreen social media posts of the Trump II era, but my personal nomination is this from @brendannyhan.bsky.social captures the multidimensional degeneracy of our times:

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Sunday

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After 10 years of doing research in Historical Political Economy, this fall I’ll finally get a chance to teach a survey course on the field & I’m really looking forward to it! 😊 I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with many essential contributions to this growing field.

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There’s been an assassination attempt on Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe. He’s been shot in the head.

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