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Assistant Professor, Accounting and Information Systems, Rutgers Business School, Newark, NJ
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The defining tract of modern Conservatism, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, was written to warn against the danger of believing that we can cure the ills of our country by breaking our whole system of government and rebuilding it according to modern principles.

The immigration–crime link: Nearly two centuries of data show that immigrants commit fewer crimes than US-born citizens. www.aeaweb.org/research/cha... via @aeajournals.bsky.social

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

Seth Godin effectively IYKYK's... seths.blog/2025/02/noti...

There are literally hundreds of research projects here at UIUC being destroyed by the cuts to the NSF, NIH, NIFA, USAID. It’s an incomprehensible waste of scientific progress and human capital.

To me, it's simple. I'm not going to vote for or expedite a single Trump nominee while this constitutional crisis persists and deepens. That's just a component of real opposition, but it has to be the starting point. No complicity. Fierce opposition.

Dear #EconSky community, I want to help I’m not super familiar with US federal data, but my #Rstats coding skills are strong and I know how to easily download data from the Internet If you want me to help you keep copy of US federal data, please DM me or email me Repost appreciated

I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"

My theoretical economics workflow: 1) To provide intuition for a theorem, hand-draw color-coded charts of a function and its inverse under two different parameters and the equilibria that result. (2) Find I just disproved the theorem. (3) Repeat #econsky