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Richard Thaler

@rthaler.bsky.social

Behavioral Economist, sports fan

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So we should follow like sheep?

07.02.2025 21:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is there a term for a post on this site? If not what about "bleet"? Or "bluet"?

07.02.2025 18:24 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 8    📌 0

Interesting controversy brewing. I am friends with all the participants so I hope it can avoid turning into "angry science".

07.02.2025 02:17 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Great event honoring @cfcamerer.bsky.social who has been impressing me for 40 years.

03.02.2025 02:50 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Measurement and Research (Spring 2016) - A large and growing share of retail prices all over the world are posted online on the websites of retailers. This is a massive and (until recently) untapped source of retail price inf...

Time to get this back up and running?

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01.02.2025 01:28 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1

When I learned econometrics in the Stone Age it was called Windsorizing the data. But blatant data mining was pretty common. Considered white lies? And I am not talking about experiments! Standards have improved.

26.11.2024 16:15 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

I think this point by Deborah is key. The data colada team is b-school based and have raised standards for everyone. IMHO this article is well below the standard I expect from the Atlantic.

24.11.2024 17:49 — 👍 47    🔁 11    💬 4    📌 1