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I'm just gonna say it out loud.
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heart trembles with fear admitting that Ill be turning 25 tomorrow. picture flawlessly depicts how it feels turning 25.
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Moreover, I think that economics has suffered enormously from utilitarianism, a shallow doctrine.
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Just heard Econometrica is now accepting "Framework of a paper" submissions
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when Kanye said "i keep it 300 like the romans", it was actually a reference to the roman numeral CCC, which stands for cartesian closed categories, whose internal logic is simply typed lambda calculus. casual listeners largely missed this
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Applied microeconomist on parallel trends: Here are 25 different robustness checks. Applied microeconomist on general equilibrium effect:
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This essay reached far more readers than I ever expected, and was shared and commented on by academics I genuinely respect and admire. Sincerely, I appreciate it. It's the third in a series I've been writing on my Substack: What Do Economists Mean When They Say
Last article of 2025. What would have happened if the Fed hadn't raised rates in 2022? You can't answer this with an RCT, DiD, or RD. That's not a failure, it's the nature of the question. Why macro never had a credibility revolution, and why that's not a bad thing. Link:
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Venezuelan Marxist philosopher, Ludovico Silva, who developed the term ideological surplus value (La Plusvalía Ideológica, 1970) to describe how ideology itself functions as capital—accumulatable, extractable, exploitable. From the Blackwell Companion to Latin American Philosophy
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Mexico to unveil weaponized magical realism device next week
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Academia already did what you’re proposing. Universities are now run like businesses with professional administrators, branding strategies, risk management, consultants, and KPI dashboards. The result hasn’t been better research or teaching. It’s been the transformation of
@LocasaleLab Academic life would improve if universities would dispose the 19th century decorum and be run like a business with clear roles: pure administration, pure research, pure teaching. Administration needs actual MBAs not theoretical physics PhDs
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the mistake so many people make is seeing university professors as intellectuals when they’re actually employees at a combination hedge fund and healthcare conglomerate that operates a small luxury resort/sports franchise where student-customers occasionally take classes
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Update: David claims to have a Lean proof of Navier-stokes, which he is publishing tonight. I have accepted a $10,000 bet that he's mistaken.
@IsaacKing314 @hamish_todd Disclaimer: I'm dropping an end-to-end Lean proof tonight.
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