Jack Meyer 🏛️
@Jackbmeyer
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Economist. Researching Institutions, Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Inequality. @SPC_Oxford🔰MPhil Student @OxfordEconDept, MSc @LseEcHist (RT!=E)
Vermont/Oxford
Joined March 2015
RT @jdcmedlock: Conservatives when government successfully solves a massive collective action problem
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While moving away from an inclusive vs extractive framework of institutions and development, I think the literature on the “exceptions” broadly expands on a theory of uncertainty-reducing constraints on the exercise of arbitrary power, which is ultimately not all that dissimilar.
Here are three books that challenge the work by last year's winners of the Nobel prize in economics. In different ways, all these books highlight the shortcomings of the West's model of 'good governance'.
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Protects but does not bind, binds but does not protect, etc etc.
Almost 1 year after making it illegal to wear masks in Nassau County, Bruce Blakeman signs executive order allowing police and ICE to wear masks while enforcing immigration violations. via @JohnAsbury
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A feat achieved through the power of applied auction theory.
“Buy it now” eliminates the early mover advantage, so the optimal strategy was to wait until minute 59 and just treat it as a one-off simultaneous auction, where I just bid my true value
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I am pleased to announce that I have graduated to the next stage of my menswear journey, I am now the proud owner of a double-breasted jacket.
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RT @JosephPolitano: Trump has now sent new tariff threats to 23 countries, including some of America's closest allies like Canada, Japan, &….
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RT @FT: Have you found it harder to stay focused recently? You're not alone — office workers' productivity peaks at around 21C and rapidly….
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RT @brian_callaci: Centrists wonks seem allergic to grubby trade union concepts like "solidarity," but perhaps they would come to appreciat….
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Most fail to consider that children are, in a certain sense, inferior goods.
Wages going up would not cause a baby boom. It would increase the opportunity cost of having kids.
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I had the opportunity to see a preview of this research at a recent seminar, and it’s truly an incredible example of how economists can leverage novel empirical tools, innovative methods, and creative use of data to answer major geopolitical questions.
🚢🌍 Oil sanctions aren’t working the way you think. Russia, Iran, and Venezuela are all under sanctions. But oil keeps flowing. Why? Because of dark shipping — a vast, hidden network that sidesteps sanctions with precision and scale. On Thursday, I’ll be presenting at the NBER
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Dismissing unions and collective bargaining as purely rent-seeking neglects the structural bias of labor markets in favor of employers. When it comes to organizing and wage-setting power, this much has been clear for over 250 years:
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I did a more complete paper replication and found that the original results still (largely) stand, but it's wild that Gemini 2.5 does a better job at OCR/transcription and cleaning output than an RA.
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I've been using an LLM to reconstruct an existing dataset and its been fairly accurate with only a few minor discrepancies. I went back to review the source documents, and it looks like most of the errors are with the original transcription and not my LLM output.
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RT @CtheLala: One of VT’s most successful commercial + residential growth stories is Williston. And it was full of farms a mere 20 years ba….
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