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When is the last time you sent an email to tell them you enjoyed their work? 🤔 I regularly send a quick email to colleagues to say I enjoyed their article/book or admire their work. You would be surprised to see how much even the most successful people appreciate this! ❤️

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It’s really stupid to attack your own civil servants at the start of your term

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Please join us this summer in Maastricht for the annual Experimental Finance Conference (June 12-14), and Summer School (June 10-11).

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Part of this is infrastructure

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Climate is a commons problem. You can rally individual financiers all you like with events like “Mobilizing private finance for SDGs.” But fixing the climate will always, fundamentally, require global action at the intergovernmental level

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

The death of a field "For the fall of 2024, the [University of Iowa] admitted five [history PhD] students, which is nearly a 90% decline from 1991. Ohio State admitted 25 graduate students in history in the year 2000. The past few years, they admitted 4-6 students." muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

They had a reasonably coherent vision for serious housing policy reform (state intervention). They just chose not to go ahead with it

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Governments need to invest in data at least as much as companies do - data is a key input to services including local

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

In a geopolitical age, it's irresponsible to maintain a taboo on discussing the European Central Bank's potential role in Europe's strategic priorities. on.ft.com/3DiZ3zi

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

It's 1898. Foreign powers are fighting over railroads in Africa. It's 1970. Foreign powers are fighting over railroads in Africa. It's 2024...

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

State intervention is the answer to most of the 21st century’s major problems

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Damn. I knew green policy could impoverish but I did not know it could kill

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

This is an important thread. China’s strategy mirrors U.S. semiconductor controls. But, remember, these are partial equilibrium solutions & the counter moves could be devastating on both sides. Policymakers should resist the 🚨 song of weaponized interdependence & remember the costs in equilibrium.

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Governing is difficult. Sunak parachuted in from high finance. Conpletely ill prepared. No wonder his lot made such a mess of it

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

We should rescue NorthVolt but also like make it reform itself completely. No more arctic shenanigans

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

State intervention is the answer to most of the 21st century’s major problems

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

TIL

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Occasionally, it still blows my mind how good the ChatGPT + R combination is for pulling data and producing graphs. I used the package scholar to get citations data from Google Scholar to compare citation patterns for researchers across different cohorts. Less than 30 minutes!

submitted 94 days ago • 9 comments

Interesting talk today by Sigrid Kaag, senior coordinator with the UN for humanitarian aid to Gaza

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We can discuss how the ICC’s arrest warrants against Netanyahu/Gallant could weaken the court’s legitimacy. But in several key respects, they have also strengthened it, particularly in the global south. Which is not to be glossed over if you believe in the rule of law

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