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“The Trump administration is trying to dismantle all democratic institutions, & like other fascists, they start with universities. Cornell cannot capitulate to this. We must stand firm & refuse to be complicit in these unconstitutional actions.” — Risa Lieberwitz, President, Cornell AAUP

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Tenured friends, please sign.

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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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The $400,000,000 Trump is withholding from Columbia University is no arbitrary amount. It was the amount Donald wanted Columbia to pay him for land he owned. They refused. And Donald was furious. That was 25 years ago. And petty Donald has not forgotten.

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Excellent article by Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber. Columbia could use more support like this.

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NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.

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“Imagine the chief executives of America’s top universities and richest corporations…issued a public statement that spoke clearly and loudly about the dangers…” Those who speak out will at least put themselves on the right side of history. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/w...

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"First They Came for Columbia" "We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us." Me and Levitsky in the Harvard Crimson www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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New from me at Cato: in its demands that Columbia surrender its academic and administrative independence to federal overseers, the Trump administration has violated one law after another. And there's every reason to think it's planning to roll out the same game plan to other universities. /1

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I couldn't agree more with this eloquent statement from my colleagues @vickymurillo.bsky.social @pagefortna.bsky.social @profsaunders.bsky.social Turkuler Isiksel and Allison Carnegie. Columbia happened to be first in Trump et al's sights, but they won't stop here.

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This is a courageous statement. I hope this courage sparks more. The core problem is that the regime is threatening universities with something near elimination unless they betray their core values and mission - which is just another path to elimination.

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Hang together or hang separately.

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Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

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Re-upping this. One might have hoped that its relevance would have faded by now, but the 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are slated to take effect tomorrow. The Trump craziness is not going away.

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Buried lede: The UK is cutting development aid by 40%. "Mr. Starmer said the change would be funded by cutting overseas development aid from 0.5 percent of gross domestic product to 0.3 percent, adding that he regretted the reduction." Ugh.

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BBVA Foundation award to Olivier Blanchard, Jordi Gali, and Michael Woodford. Congratulations! www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/fro...

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At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is.

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The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...

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Dear Donald Trump: We already have tariff reciprocity. And no, value-added taxes aren't protectionist paulkrugman.substack.com/p/more-than-...

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I swear to God I told my daughter this very week that this was coming: some GOP politician was going to propose that. There’s a race to the bottom in showing fealty — and there is no bottom.

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Found on Threads. About right

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In Nigeria toddlers are starving because emergency feeding centers have run out of nutrient-rich paste used to save lives of severely malnourished children Ebola outbreak in Uganda has spread to 3 cities. @nickkristof.bsky.social on consequences of USAID chaos so far www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

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Our practical guide to shift-share IV is now out in the JEP! www.aeaweb.org/issues/793 (Ungated version: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/el9yn...)

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Here's a lesson for all of us that the universities are relearning today: Staying silent in the face of fascism will not protect you.

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Just signed.

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Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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This is the first time @epi.org has issued a statement labeling an administration’s actions as authoritarian. But we all have a moral obligation to name recent actions—including the hacking of the U.S. Treasury payment systems—as the truly authoritarian efforts they are. www.epi.org/press/elon-m...

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A quick take from me on Trump's tariff shenanigans.

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📣 The Firms, Labor Market and Development Workshop is headed to Bari this year on June 20-21! Send your best papers before February 28th, submissions at this link: shorturl.at/YQdPo Please repost 🙏 @micheledimaio.bsky.social @marimendola.bsky.social @marcosanfilip.bsky.social @vitoperagine

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This week's links include an interview with @ericverhoogen.bsky.social, @kopalo.bsky.social on the ambition gap among Africa's ruling elites, how tariff & non-tariff barriers affect green technology take-up in developing countries, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

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Following up on a recent panel at #NEUDC2024 and visit to Cornell Econ, I had a fun conversation with the @econthatmatters.bsky.social team, linked below. A good stimulus for me to think about bigger-picture issues in development. #econsky

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🚨New dataset alert 🚨 In collaboration with a stellar team at Banxico, Harvard, the World Bank, and ITAM, we built a dataset of demographics and labor market variables at the local-labor-market level for Mexico! Download here: www.banxico.org.mx/DataSetsWeb/... #EconSky #Mexico

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No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.

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A baker's dozen. 12 books published in 2023-2024 that I have found especially valuable in understanding positive and normative dimensions of inequality plus the book that had the largest implicit effect on my thinking published in the last decade.

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Former BLS commissioner Erica Groshen on how the policy change to Schedule F that Trump & #Project2025 advocate would destroy the credibility of the federal statistical system. Her comment on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/erica-... ...

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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...

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Blog updated to v2 this morning. Lots of useful developments from ASSA that, for @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & I, show a path to meaningful participation in #ASSA2025 even if there are picket lines. I thank @lkatz42.bsky.social & team for leading to practical solutions.

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But will that starter pack include itself? That's the question.

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RIP The Mill

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Imposing this large, new, regressive tax on Americans will destroy jobs across the United States, will raise inflation, and will not affect the availability of fentanyl. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... www.piie.com/publications... @piie.com

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#EconSky

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