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a substantial part of Middlemarch is about Dorothea's realization that the man she has married in the belief that he is a genius through his 'Key to All Mythologies' has wasted his life on a futile quest because he doesn't read German and is entirely unaware of modern scholarly work.

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If you live near Arlington, VA, come out and hear about my new experiment on Friday May 2 ices.gmu.edu/events/16497

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The April 2025 JEEA issue is very special: it contains the first papers that have gone through our Data Replication Policy. @jeeanews.bsky.social

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@theatlantic.com’s writers and editors are on Bluesky. Follow us for ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y

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A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...

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Maybe that would have kept them from going bankrupt.

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I've been posting about shutdowns and rippling "severe" supply chain effects theoretically -- here's a more practical view which is in line with that.

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Today is evidence that the principles are simple and sound. It took me about a year of studying economics seriously to realize that we already know what makes countries rich. At first, I thought if I learned more math I could discover a secret.

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People LOVED their factory jobs back in the 60s / 70s. That's why there were so many songs about how they wanted to stay on the production line for all time and never, ever leave their hometown.

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arxiv.org/abs/2503.23229 "Citegeist" is a great title.

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Please consider answering the ESA Survey regarding IRB practices. We are interested in gathering a Comprehensive view of practices on this important issue: uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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One way to think about the current moment is an ideological struggle over whether there are such things as public goods

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Special Issue of JEBO in honor of Gary Charness. Deadline submission. April 1st. More Info: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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Coming up with software that ensures students do their own work (at least within that computer) shouldn’t be impossible.

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Is the free version of Perplexity working? Anyone else tried to use it today?

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Reading an NBER Working Paper online appendix be like

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I love #econsky. They bring facts that tell us what we should be paying attention to Going to be some upset companies it it continues

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Auction theorists take note

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more polls should have "the glory of winning" and "other people were doing it" as response options, IMO (via apnorc.org/projects/bra...)

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Tomorrow the US Administration imposes the heaviest taxes since the 1930s on Americans who buy imports. In this new brief from @ucsandiego.bsky.social, leading economists Evenett & Muendler estimate the harm to US workers in all 50 states—> econweb.ucsd.edu/muendler/dow... | cc @piie.com

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If you're interested in posts about teaching economics, please use the #TeachEcon hashtag and follow the feed below. I've removed certain symbols (👨‍🏫👩‍🏫 no longer work) to reduce irrelevant posts in the feed. #EconSky

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#EconSky

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It's a very sad day. Just notified that @iza.org is closing its doors as of 31 December 2025. At a time when labor is under attack and technological change moves at an ever-faster pace, I can't help but think that this is a short-sighted decision. My heart goes out to those folks who work there.

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Very cool opportunity in my opinion!

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My son called me over to ask the definition of “jettison.” I was able to explain that it means “to yeet.” He got that right away.

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Judging by the display in H&M at the Birmingham, AL mall, aspirational locations are Venice Beach, Paris, and UCLA.

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How would you really know if they didn’t use AI assistance?

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From a source: 2 weeks Tired: Prices rose Wired: Rose prices

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In class I auctioned off an $8 gift card. I was just trying to illustrate a standard demand curve. When I got a bid for $7.99, I assumed we were done. Then a boy in the back held up a $10. I asked him why he wanted to spend $10 for $8 and he answered right away, “I want to win.”

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Breakfast table in 2025 America: 9yo asks question to Apple Watch. Siri quotes Reddit. Kid mutters that you can’t believe everything on Reddit.

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Merry Christmas

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With the H5N1 genotype D1.1 now appearing to cause severe illness in humans, a significant risk faced by North America is the real possibility of a reassortment event occurring between it and seasonal influenza. This could easily occur via a human co-infection, or in an animal.

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Teach millennials about file paths and directory structures? In this economy?

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Big news on inequality: - wage inequality fell in 2023 as real earnings grew for the bottom 90% and declined for the top 1% - over the long run, 1979-2023, wages for the top 1% skyrocketed (+182%) while wages for the bottom 90% was slow (44%) www.epi.org/blog/wage-in... #EconSky #NumbersDay

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Hey #Econsky, I just discovered this great starter pack: go.bsky.app/Hsdczbc Follow the Lisas! 👩‍🎓 @lisakramer.com , I think we should also add Vasilisa @vasilisawerner.bsky.social, who is on the job market with an #EconJMP on "Destructive Communication" ➡️ bsky.app/profile/vasi...

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