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Yep. I think this is a time to live your values.

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There's a document circulating that is tracking PhD admissions paused/reduced and faculty hiring freezes in America right now. Dozens of the former, fewer of the latter so far. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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We'll be seeing a wave of this in America. If NIH stays frozen American universities will slump into collapse. The impact will be felt in science communities around the world. I know we've all been trained to be studiously neutral, but the role of science in society is being rewritten right now &

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I've been a bit quiet recently, because I used to live in a world where it was feasible to keep your politics distinct from your academic work, but that is no longer the world we live in. The role of science & knowledge more broadly has itself become heavily politicized

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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

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Note to self to download this

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Brave new world? What do people think about this line of thought: 1) we have been in an SBTC world for 110 years. New tech required new skills. This drove skills premiums & led to the rise of middle class incomes. It drove a huge higher education industry. The economy 1/3

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Roses are red Violets are blue You should finish your current papers Before starting something new

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I am meant to be writing a policy chapter. The thing has taken on a life of its own & is thrashing around, inhaling everything I know, trying to grow into a book. Today I say no. I get out the shears. I feel so sad. Maybe it can be a book later.

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Vive le Canada ❤️🇨🇦

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Paper is: invention of modern innovation. Neffke et al They are going to ask how human societies learn as the sum of knowledge expands ideas.repec.org/p/egu/wpaper/2… 1/?

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The CFP deadline for the 2025 meeting of the Economic History Association in Philadelphia, 5-7 September is 31 January! Get your proposals in soon! Here’s the link: eh.net/eha-meeting-...

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Look, I don't want to be one of these "everything the New York Times does is awful" people...but this headline is awful. The most important thing here is not that it is a "fight," it is that the President is claiming vast new powers that are explicitly allocated to Congress in the Constitution.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

It's such a weird thing to hear the news and think "that's bad, but also I have a paper about (an aspect) of that" Funding delays are really not great for people who work in science. Funding delays of > 30 days lead to: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force - 20% decrease in wages

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CSH has just agreed with no stress to get me a bookcase for my books. I don't think they realize how happy this makes me 😍 Also, we've just moved in to one of the (many) old Palaces in Vienna. It's utterly gorgeous. Is inspiring me to organize an #econhist conference

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Still writing all my grants and papers by hand, and that's how it's going to continue. For two reasons. Firstly, I think by writing, this is for me. Secondly, the cadence of an LLM is entirely anodyne, white noise: my value is in my difference.

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Reflecting rather cheerfully on the long and sometimes noble history of human beings & communities thinking on and working on how to make life better for all people. The prayer for human flourishing, our deepest and most dedicated work. There is no part of me that believes we have given up on that.

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Pretty impressed with the Vienna Ball of Sciences. Quite a few people from CSH went & were glorious in their formal wear. Looking forward to renting an appropriately 19th c ball gown and going next year!

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Fantastic to see this!!

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Economic History is emerging as a new social science People have always tried to learn from the past - data scarcity made it challenging 19th c gives us rich data. Marks the first time humans can start to see the path dependencies via which our past evolves into the present. 1/2

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Writing my first opinion piece. It's a bit disorienting. I'd rather have papers out first, but I am starting to have some views, so I might as well share them. I anticipate people will let me know if they have major objections. Which is after all very useful

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🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @essobecker.bsky.social @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in🧵(1/n)

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Yeah but can you predict structural breaks in history?

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When I started studying inequalities one of the things I heard about freedom in America: "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." Louis Brandeis Guess we get to investigate this claim a little

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<<The question then becomes, what is hope? And the conclusion I’d have ti venture is that hope involves working and struggling along with people who are important to you. In fact, I’ve gotten to the point where I think this is what it means to be alive.>> -Hayao Miyazaki

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