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shourideh.bsky.social
Economic Theorist at CMU
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Hard to argue with Matthias here. Big loss for us and good for Europe.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Just so it’s clear, the government wanted to oversee hiring and employment at a *private* institution in order to implement a purity test. When the institution refused, they took away money for life saving research (cancer etc). That’s some fascist shit.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Norwooz! Tomorrow is the winter solstice and official start of spring ! Beyond its symbolic significance, it’s a time of cleaning. Let’s hope for this particular cleaning sometime soon (and those in the west who wish to act accordingly)!

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political

submitted 58 days ago • 28 comments

The thunderstorm of terrible U.S. government actions continues. Free speech is only applied selectively! I read the coverage of several outlets and it seems like the only crime here is supporting Hamas. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

To call myself angry these days whenever I open my browser and I am not reading a math theorem is an understatement! I find it extremely difficult to see anything positive. And I was able to in '17 despite being on the receiving end of the muslim ban!

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

I have to admit that while people are quite shocked by the WH events today, to me this is simply just a sign of what this administration is doing. In fact, perhaps it is quite good that Zelensky decided fight back against the bogus claims. To me, we crossed a line when we voted for Russia in the UN!

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Is what we are saying a failure of the equity discourse of the 2010's? Perhaps. As @adamprz.bsky.social put it elegantly, the equity discourse of the 2010's seem to only have been around symbols as opposed to meaningful changes in policies or cultural changes. ESG investing became synonym with ...

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

What is happening is quite painful to watch with the latest bowing of King Trump to Putin being the worst part of it all. For me this is the first time that I am feeling like we are collectively failing ourselves into oblivion. ...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

How can a world where writing is done by machines allow us to keep track of our human experience? It’s a world with “Homo sapiens with full-sized aortic pumps”!

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

My wonderful friend and coauthor. Congrats!

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

All in a single issue!!!

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

0/ A holiday economic theory reading list. Some of my favorite pieces on theory that can be read with minimal sweat, but with the maximal intellectual reward. In no particular order:

submitted 129 days ago • 2 comments

Not having a formal education of microeconomic theory means that I didn’t know Ramsey did this before Savage!!!!

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

If you are interested in engagement and attention specially on places like this (!!) or you just like theory come to our session at the ASSA on Attention and Engagement on Platforms #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...,

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

Since I’ve heard about it, I’ve only used generative AI a handful of time. Do I count as a Luddite?

submitted 144 days ago • 1 comment