@maxkasy.bsky.social
Econ prof at Oxford. Machine learning, politics, econometrics, inequality, random reading recs. maxkasy.github.io/home/
My colleagues are organizing a workshop on
*AI for economic research*
next March.
Paper submission is open now!
icms.ac.uk/activities/w...
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library. They are: Substantive minority representation in parliament by Lea Ewe Bönisch The US Constitution and political instability by Alan Ware The political psychology of populism by François Bafoil Inflation is about more than money by Brian Griffiths The means of prediction by Maximilian Kasy Understanding gender violence by Jenn Freitag Couples at work by Emily Christopher Culture based development by Annie Tubadji The climate diplomat by Peter Betts The application of political science methods in Europe edited by Luca Verzichelli and Claudius Wagemann
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
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Tomorrow at LSE Economics:
sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/...
@sticerd_lse
🕸️ 🔢 Presenting tomorrow at UCL: 🔢 🕸️
"Causal inference on endogenous social network formation"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
@ucleconomics.bsky.social
Wird Künstliche Intelligenz die Weltherrschaft übernehmen? Darüber müssen wir uns keine Sorgen machen, schreibt der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Oxford-Professor Maximilian Kasy in seinem Buch “The Means of Prediction”. Wohl aber darüber, wer Künstliche Intelligenz für seine Zwecke einsetzen kann:
17.11.2025 08:45 — 👍 100 🔁 21 💬 7 📌 1
Künstliche Intelligenz: Wie kann KI den Vielen nutzen?
www.moment.at/story/kuenst...
(mein Interview im heutigen @moment.at)
🏛️ And now in Greek! 🏛️
jacobin.gr/i-anthropoti...
A simplified, stylized periodic table of elements where large groups of elements are color-coded. Hydrogen (H) is isolated. Group 1 (alkali metals) is labeled "BOOM!". Group 2 (alkaline earth metals) is "rocks & sand & glass & stuff". The transition metals are split into sections: "the foundations of human civilization," "catalysts & superalloys," "ooh, shiny!," "expensive," and "heavy metal poisoning." Technetium (Tc) is boxed separately. The p-block is also grouped: "chips (not tasty kind)," "organic chemistry," and "useful for poisoning your husband." The noble gases are labeled "n o p e." The heaviest elements in the s-block and p-block are labeled "cancer 2" and "cancer alley," with the exception of Bismuth. The transactinides are labeled "more physics than chemistry." The bottom f-block (lanthanides and actinides) is also labeled. The lanthanides are "except for Pm these are all basically the same element," with Promethium (Pm) boxed. The actinides are labeled "rxtors & bombs" and "you probably work at Los Alamos."
please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state"
⚗️🧪 #chemsky
Extract from the introduction of "The Means of Prediction" published on Literary Hub:
lithub.com/why-big-tech...
Just out in the New York Times:
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Happy pub day to Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @maxkasy.bsky.social! In this interview, he discusses his new book, The Means of Prediction, which offers a convincing argument for democratic control over AI’s objectives.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/whos-afraid-...
“We might hope that keeping our own data private could protect each of us from unwanted outcomes. But A.I. doesn’t need to know what you have been doing; it only needs to know what people like you have done before,” Maximilian Kasy writes.
02.11.2025 23:25 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Just out in the New York Times:
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
⏰ We are hiring on the junior market! ⏰
Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics:
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ.
cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...
(@harvardkennedy.bsky.social, @harvardrte.bsky.social)
4/n
jacobin.com/2025/11/ai-i...
(by @ggalanis.bsky.social)
2/n
Some lovely first reviews of "The Means of Prediction" are out:
www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p...
(by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social)
1/n
⏰ We are hiring on the junior market! ⏰
Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics:
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ.
cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
🚨Public service announcement:🚨
Only 2 weeks until the official launch event for "The means of prediction" on Nov 3,
incl discussion with Noam Yuchtman, music, and bar.
Get your free tickets here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/reference-...
& your copy of the book here:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
🚨Public service announcement:🚨
Only 2 weeks until the official launch event for "The means of prediction" on Nov 3,
incl discussion with Noam Yuchtman, music, and bar.
Get your free tickets here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/reference-...
& your copy of the book here:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Reading rec:
📖✊🏼The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution ✊🏽📖
by David Runciman
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
Insightful yet very readable discussion of political thinkers from Rousseau and Bentham to Luxemburg and Beauvoir.
Reading rec:
📖🧳 A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes 🧳📖
by Anthony Bale (@realmandeville.bsky.social)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
Entertaining exploration of how medieval European travelers made sense of foreign lands and the world.
Reading rec:
Britains made up migrant crisis
by Daniel Finn (@DanFinn95)
jacobin.com/2025/10/brit...
Thoughtful discussion of the paradoxes of British attitudes, which became more racially inclusive and yet more xenophobic over time.
Reading rec:
📖✊🏼The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution ✊🏽📖
by David Runciman
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
Insightful yet very readable discussion of political thinkers from Rousseau and Bentham to Luxemburg and Beauvoir.
Presenting today: overview and comparison of our findings in the #basicincome and #jobguarantee pilots
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s...
Takeaway: We need both policies!
🪅 congrats, chad!🪅
07.10.2025 11:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks, Yuriy!
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