eoinaldo
@eoinaldo
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Prof @HWUEconomics , interested in #econhist, #landreform, #microfinance, #sustainabledevelopment, #health, #nufc & #Seinfeld (not necessarily in that order)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined September 2012
Manuscript done ✅ Off to production at Bloomsbury! The book revisits Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations at 250, rethinking prosperity through inclusive wealth & sustainability More soon… 📖✨
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr
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Two graduate students and myself (both are on market this year — hire them) found a way to test the doughnut model and … very simply … it explains nothing. It yields NONE of its predictions. See here :
Forgive me for saying something that many will find heretical, but I think this work is really just a few powerpoint slides written in academese for activists, and most certainly didn't deserve to be published in the world's top scientific journal
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Days in a work week: 5 Days in a month: 30 Total new submissions to arXiv in September: 26,646 arXiv editorial and user support staff: 7 someone who is good at science please help me with this. our team isn't sleeping. #openaccess #preprints
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I’m the author of the paper @grok describes here. It’s among the most read and cited articles on psychotherapy outcome—required reading in grad programs around the world Grok gets literally everything wrong The paper shows psychodynamic therapy is as or more effective than
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How changes in height show health effects of the Famine. Research by @eoinaldo @HWUEconomics @Researchirel & @ClioChris @QUBelfast shows how the long‑term health impacts of the Great Irish Famine varied by region & socioeconomic conditions
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New research finds that the long‑term health impacts of the Famine varied by region and socioeconomic conditions
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"The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy." - NYT If your neighbor can't find a job, it's a recession. If you can't find a job, it’s a depression. If economists can't find jobs, it’s the end of work as we know it.
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Today I learned that in 1944, the UK had a working population of 24m against a total of 48m, and today has a working population of 28m against a total of 69m. In the 80 intervening years, worker productivity growth has exceeded 2% per year, on average, for a total of over 5x.
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The US has bombed Fordow. It has very likely used enough force to significantly damage, if not destroy, the enrichment facility. We likely won't know for quite some time. It's possible we may never know, as that will be a big part of Iran's response. 1/
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So I went to see Spike Milligan's gravestone recently, to see for myself the "I told you I was ill" epitaph. Bright sunny day, slightly faded inscription, couldn't see it. Walked away somewhat disgruntled, another bloody urban myth I thought. 5 minutes later had a thought, had
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Mixed that with AI slop
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance." However worried you were about the impact of AI on education, you weren't worried
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"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance." However worried you were about the impact of AI on education, you weren't worried
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Can anyone measure colonial drain, the tribute the British Empire extracted from India? There is nothing wrong with the concept of drain (payment without return). But there is no credible measure. There are no numbers to show the drain was large, as some people claim.
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Daniel Almazán (@DaniAlmazan_) has produced a highly informative figure comparing the actual Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Spain with past forecasts, which I am borrowing from him. Even if you are not from Spain, please take a moment to read this. Since the labels are in
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Does environmental damage increase the risk of pandemics? https://t.co/07EQGn4tEZ An early piece from @EconObservatory's launch five years ago to answer questions from policymakers & the public about #COVID19 Full @eoinaldo paper now available here: https://t.co/HXQS8P6Gec
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There are two separate conceptualizations for assessing existential risks: Planetary Boundaries (PBs) and global catastrophic risks (GCRs). While these concepts are similar in principle, their...
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I’m sharing my slide deck on the demographic future of humanity, 🔗 Slides: https://t.co/LelNVSSmK2 prepared for the keynote address I will give tomorrow to the 7th EBRD and CEPR Research Symposium on “The Economics of Demographic Change”: 🔗 Symposium: https://t.co/Tozxyeag87
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Delighted to visit @AdamSmithHouse where Adam Smith wrote ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and other masterpieces!
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How changes in height show health effects of the Great Irish Famine. New research by @eoinaldo @HWUEconomics @Researchirel & @ClioChris @QUBelfast shows how the long‑term health impacts of the Great Irish Famine varied by region & socioeconomic conditions
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