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. . . we delivered more than 2,000 healthy babies into this world without losing a single mother - including once in the middle of an all staff meeting when a tap-tap came honking into the crowd of us gathered in the office parking-lot with a mom minutes from delivery.

I got to work quite closely with @MSF_USA in Port-au-Prince when overseeing the J/P HRO hospitals. In addition to patching up a whole lot of people up from all of the dangers and tragedies that unfolded over those years . . .

What it's all about. 💜🥹 Prof. Joel Mokyr, winner of the @NobelPrize in Economic Sciences, shares a lovely message from a former student.

A great reminder of why we need more rigorous evidence in public policy! Special shout out to our Emanuele Colonnelli and his findings that corruption is also internally self-defeating and does not actual succeed in greasing the wheels. https://t.co/O82v2SDfkz

In the hope that sharing this here isn't entirely self-defeating, check out this potential tool for overcoming our collective action problem of excessive social media use . . . brought to you by our own Leonardo Bursztyn. https://t.co/BKcYs2CvMV

If you're a government official in a Middle Income country working to overcome the 'Middle Income Trap', join us next summer in Chicago! https://t.co/s4fzwLGKgh

HUGE congrats to Philippe Aghion who shared the Nobel Prize in Economics this morning! Philippe and his work with fellow laureate Peter Howitt on "sustained growth through creative destruction” have been instrumental for the Growth Academy from @BeckerFriedman and @WorldBank

The entire conversation is just fantastic, but jump straight to Joel's remarks here: https://t.co/69CRMh4ieH

They all explored the very topic he was recognized for this morning: “the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” -- or as we called it at the time: "Culture and Markets: The Potent Mix that Fueled Growth from the Industrial Revolution to the Present"

HUGE congratulations to Joel Mokyr who shared the Nobel Prize in economics this morning! We at Becker Friedman Institute for Economics hosted him just last fall along with Nobel laureates James Robinson and James Heckman as well as Deirdre McCloskey.

. . . Bringing nonvoting representatives of red-state perspectives into the congressional Democrats’ deliberations would be a strong signal of Democrats’ commitment to work for people in every part of America." https://t.co/dvbWkiFZOy

"To ensure that views from these Republican-dominated red states are not ignored, the House Democratic Caucus should invite these states’ Democratic parties to designate a recent congressional candidate to serve as a liaison with the House Democrats . . .

I had the opportunity to sit down with Nobel laureate Roger Myerson recently explore some of his ideas like these (our interview will be coming out soon, but in the meantime I wanted to share with you this):

I've already got my copy and am excited to be kicking off this conversation. If you're in Chicago on Oct 29, please join us on campus!

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ_uzh at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

I realize #Chicago is in the news quite a bit these days, but in case it might be for reasons other than this one, I want to make sure you know we're building the global hub for #Quantum #Innovation! #SiliconValleyByTheSweetWaterSeaShore https://t.co/EIYUBMS7bd

-- spoiler: some solid reasons to check out https://t.co/wkNyXVPmQh if you haven't already.

We're all struggling to feel our way through the swamp of AI slop that is flooding the internet. Check out the latest from Alex Imas and Brian Jabarian testing AI detection tools

While we've seen much less reporting during this disaster here in the US, the tragedies unfolding in hundreds of thousands of children's lives are no less unconscionable. https://t.co/TJXAV4jiRB