Jim Campbell
@jamesdcamp
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Lecturer at @berkeleyecon | Teaching: Intro, Micro, Behavioral, Pedagogy | he/his | 🏴🇺🇸 immigrant
Providence, RI
Joined August 2014
Ethics and morality in Econ 101: a great article by @erikacpage for @csmonitor, featuring me! (And a bunch of smarter and more famous people, including the invaluable @coreeconteam!) https://t.co/TGvE5WD9AU
csmonitor.com
Professors have often presented economics as the realm of rational people making efficient choices. Now many highlight underlying ethical debates.
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Terrific review essay from @sanjuktampaul laying out the promise and limits of antitrust law as a means of addressing labor market inequality.
michiganlawreview.org
Inequality and the Labor Market: The Case for Greater Competition. Edited by Sharon Block and Benjamin H. Harris. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. 2021. Pp. xix, 241. $37.99. Introduc...
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Don't get me wrong, the paper is very interesting, but words matter
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We're out here ranting about social welfare functions, tradeoffs, and value judgments, come on NBER
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We're out here in the pedagogical trenches frantically tapping the "utility maximization ≠ financial self-interest" sign, come on NBER
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By what possible reasoning are undistorted competition, profit and utility maximization "econ 101 mechanisms", and why does NBER think they are?
Support for econ 101 mechanisms (undistorted competition, profit and utility maximization) is stronger among people who hold "individualistic" moral values, from Augustin Landier and @dthesmar
https://t.co/9ZycUW7r7g
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My favorite albums of 2021
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Back again for 2021 after last year’s ridiculously strong list. Let’s do this, in no particular order:
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This book by @epopppp is going to be so good that it's making me upset that I don't have it in my hands yet. There are about a dozen different things in chapter 1 that should go straight into #econ1. https://t.co/1DyhtvhrYC
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The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s—and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions today
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🚨BREAKING: UC-AFT’s Executive Board served notice to UC management that lecturers will strike on Nov. 17 and 18 against unfair labor practices committed by the @UofCalifornia. #UCUnfair #WeTeachUC (1/4)
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We know that economics has a gender and racial diversity problem. Socioeconomic background is less often discussed. @SchultzzyRun and I use the Survey of Earned Doctorates - a census of all PhDs from US institutions - to study the socioeconomic background of econ PhDs (1/N)
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Hi #econ1! 👋 Remember Prof. @DarrickHamilton from our notes and reading list, on wealth and race in the U.S.? Don't just listen to me, hear it from him directly:
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The U.S. is the only wealthy nation without paid leave. Just 23% of private-sector workers have access to paid family leave, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 77% have access to paid sick leave. In both instances, they are disproportionately higher-paid workers
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But the billionaires will *stop* working if we take any of their "savings"? Am I getting this right?
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(Hi #econ1! You might recognize the table from our class notes...)
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