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bengolub.bsky.social
economics and computer science professor at Northwestern bengolub.net social and economic networks originally from Ukraine
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Congratulations, @s-stantcheva.bsky.social !!!

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Star Wars As A Service

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

In September 2021, Texas banned nearly all abortions. A JAMA Pediatrics study found that, between 2021 and 2022, infant deaths in Texas surged 12.9%, compared with a much smaller increase in the rest of the US of 1.8%. Infant mortality rates rose 8.3%. www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/h...

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

Really enjoying the Network Science in Economics Conference at Stanford. Spoke about network experiments, including regarding manipulating social contagion and social connection. Hanging with @jacksonmatthewo.bsky.social and Mark Granovetter. :-)

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

"She's a supermodel but she lives in Canada."

submitted 13 days ago • 427 comments

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

submitted 13 days ago • 393 comments

I don't think people realize that in important respects tariffs are now higher & more inflationary than what was announced on last Wednesday. Since then we've gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.

submitted 13 days ago • 98 comments

Doob in distress

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Macroeconomics is the natural predator of foolish regimes.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

supply network volatility (caused by Trump tariff) tipping into sharp increases in US costs of borrowing more signs pointing to a broad crisis

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The zero-sum mindset seems more and more relevant in the current environment. Thank you @harvardmagazine.bsky.social for the video where I explain our research on why zero-sum thinking is so important and where it comes from. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e16o...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

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.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Google searches for "filing for unemployment": 1/ This thread is inspired by the great @aaronsojourner.org , who is a pioneer (along with @paulgp.com and Elizabeth Pancotti) in nowcasting unemployment insurance claims using Google Trends data.

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

This is a cry of help to Congress "Save us, because he won't reverse course"

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

If you'd like to teach about the new economics of supply networks and their fragility this spring (see thread below for an application), here's a short list of broadly accessible resources you might find useful.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

interesting bug @support.bsky.team - i keep trying to delete this post, but am unable bsky.app/profile/beng...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

The main effect of tariff insanity: Uncertainty poisoning supply networks, degrading a lot of relationships at once. That scar tissue will linger for a long time. 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Good question - what focal point, out of many many candidates, ignites coordination? 👇 Altogether different from building the movement slowly, and using the movement itself as coordination device. (With reciprocal preferences: you join when you see that others join.)

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

This enormous market crash can be a focal point (also known as a Schelling point) for opposition Trump's chaos and lawlessness broadly. Would be great not to waste it.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

was just thinking that it's weird that the undergrads I teach have no memory of the most recent financial crisis. No longer a problem.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

to save the Republic, a path - what do we think? Democrats nominate 2026 House candidates in red and purple districts as center-right as they can realistically run (with zero ties to unpopular D cultural issues) make it is easy to have a purple wave on a single-issue election: end Trump chaos

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

This is what happens when you ask me to indulge your false equivalencies about the Trump tariffs.

submitted 17 days ago • 61 comments