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calvin-thrall.bsky.social
Assistant professor @Columbia. Firms, diplomacy, global governance. Bikes, books, guitars, skateboards. Vegan for the planet.
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Dean Karlan, Chief Economist at USAID, has resigned www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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Gordon Hanson, @drodrik.bsky.social, & my chapter for @nber.org's upcoming volume on place-based policy. We discuss the history of innovations in place-based policies in the US & unpack the "supply chains" through which these policies are implemented in different domains | www.nber.org/papers/w33511

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Right on the money, from my esteemed colleague. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

A question to be reckoned with long after Trump leaves office: now that we all know this *can* happen, how will we possibly convince competent people to work for the federal government?

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After witnessing what happened with the J6 insurrectionists, not shocking that Trump apparatchiks aren’t worried about things like “the legality of their actions.”

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Niche question: I used to use an app called Researcher, which gave you an RSS-style feed of newly published articles from whichever journals you wanted. It shut down. Any suggestions for a replacement?

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

It probably goes without saying that the end result of a return to the patronage system would not, in fact, be “efficiency.”

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Global War On Terroir

submitted 53 days ago • 8 comments

Following the example of @rickyclark.bsky.social and @lisadellmuth.bsky.social I have put together an International Political Economy starter pack. Please answer this post if you want to be included in a second starter pack! (I exhausted all 150 slots for this pack 😅) go.bsky.app/JQeggfC

submitted 57 days ago • 21 comments

Apropos of nothing, thinking of Eisenhower’s assessment of conservatives who want to deregulate and cut social services.

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[CONFERENCE ALERT] Political, Social, and Economic Inequality Organizers: A. Alrababah and G. Invernizzi (Bocconi), S. Hirano and C. Prato (Columbia) The conference will be held at Bocconi University on June 19-20, 2024. Submit here before 12/31: shorturl.at/fDyoD

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🚨 New @apsrjournal.bsky.social Paper! 🚨 In “When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands,” I study how empowering undocumented migrants can reduce labor exploitation and even weaken organized crime. Thread : 🧵

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 New working paper with @calvin-thrall.bsky.social + Simran Singh 🚨 Private sector demand for climate expertise is skyrocketing. Firms now compete with the government to hire top climate experts. How does this competition affect the state's capacity for climate governance? doi.org/10.31219/osf...

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

My small part in trying to get people to understand why it seems like running government like a business is a good idea, when in fact it's a terrible one (1/4): www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

submitted 82 days ago • 12 comments

I’ve decided that what I really need is a starter pack of starter packs.

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Pretty striking findings! www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/app/uploads/...

submitted 84 days ago • 20 comments

TIL: Arrow’s impossibility theorem came out of his work on the theory of the firm!

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open.spotify.com/track/3Rgb7Y... It pains me to admit this, but Sting’s Christmas album is one of the greatest of all time.

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on.ft.com/3OBVpCZ If you haven’t been following the exploits of the Adani Group for the past couple years: start today. It has everything: bribery, fraud, geopolitics, political connections, etc.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Just learned about starter packs. Any recs for starter packs in IR/IPE/political economy/etc?

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

This year, I’m giving thanks for the opportunity to post on yet another new website with my friends.

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