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sorry all caps because i love tove jansson’s writing so much She Gets It

If you live to be 100 and read two books every week from the age of 8 onward, you will have read 9,568 books over your lifetime.

In 2013 (most recent data I can find), the average public library had a collection of 116,481.6 items.

!! Trump demands BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer (20 year veteran govt employee) be fired after BLS data show deteriorating job market.

Micro evidence on firms' opting out of rigid collective bargaining in Italy finds that opting out reduces wages but increases workers' employment and retention within firms, from Dustmann, Giannetto, Incoronato, Lacava, Pezone, Saggio, and Schoefer https://www.nber.org/papers/w34076

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

Minst 18 500 barn har dödats i Gaza sedan Israel inledde sitt försök att utrota den palestinska befolkningen. Washington Post har samlat och publicerat deras namn: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

I'm so excited to see this paper coming out in RESTUD.

Fun facts about this paper:
1) My amazing co-author Bruno and I had never met in person until after we completed the first draft.
2) It's my first and only paper that was never rejected by a journal.
3) I can now claim to understand macro.

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Vad bra den här var! En berättelse om oppositionsrörelsen mot den sydkoreanska militärdiktaturen, berättad i sju sektioner eller skikt: 1980, 1980, 1985, 1990, 2002, 2010 och 2013. Brutalt och blodigt, om militärens massaker på oppositionella i Kwangju 1980 och om tortyren och våldet i fängelserna

Yesterday at NBER SI Jason Sockin presented our work with Elliott Ash and me showing how your interview process shapes how job seekers form perceptions of you as an employer. These impressions can impact everything from offer acceptance to employee retention!

Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.

This research, from @kostoel.bsky.social and others, is available as an Upjohn Institute working paper, supported by our Early Career Research Awards program. research.upjohn.org/up_workingpa... #ECRA #Econsky

Per Gessle: Jag vill inte bli störd av folk som är i vägen Christopher Garplind intervjuar Per Gessle om att vara obekväm i sin kropp, sorgen efter Marie Fredriksson och Roxette med Lena PH.

Bra drag att låta Christopher Garplind intervjua Per Gessle: www.dn.se/kultur/per-g...

State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Been waiting for this to come out for a while now: www.nber.org/papers/w3397.... That's such a cool paper!!!

En gång i tiden byggde vi ett samhälle. Nu bygger vi egoism

Otrolig text av @bruksdod.bsky.social , en ilska jag kan skriva under på varje dag

this is one of the greatest videos I’ve ever seen

AGRI ISMAÏL: Detta chockade mig när jag flyttade till Sverige I veckan listade Expressens kultursida 2000-talets 25 bästa svenska böcker, men många går inte att köpa. Agri Ismaïl menar att det är ett demokratiproblem att det inte går att skaffa sig ett kulturell...

Läs Agri Ismail, en underskattat avgörande kulturpolitisk fråga som faktiskt vore lätt att lösa, eftersom alla – vänster, höger, grodor – rimligen tycker exakt samma sak, nämligen att han har helt rätt

www.expressen.se/kultur/bocke...

One dog? Just one dog?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Doctoral student in Economics - Örebro University We are currently inviting applications to the doctoral programme in Economics, which leads to a doctoral degree and includes participation in the national

Also consider applying to the twin position within the same cluster, placed at Örebro University www.oru.se/english/care...

PhD-student in Economics for our interdisciplinary project with WASP-HS The Department of Economics is one of the largest departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences with approximately 100 employees from a dozen countries. Each year about 1,000 students participate

PhD position in Labor Economics on AI, Structural change & the Future of Work. A very exciting research group: Uppsala's excellent Labor Econ Environment--integrated with other schools, fields, practitioners, and leading international scholars. Apply now--call is short! uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Sms visar: UD avfärdade Sida-förslag om stöd till Unrwa Sida ville betala ut stöd till Unrwa och tänkte informera utrikesdepartementet om förslaget. Men UD sa nej. Nu visar loggar som SVT:s 30 Minuter tagit del av att regeringens statssekreterare Diana Jan...

Man kan nog inte sitta kvar som om inget hänt efter att den här SMS-kedjan avslöjas. Antingen blir det Dousa eller Janse, men nån lär få bära detta, gissar jag. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

Marknadens misslyckanden måste tämjas | Dagens Arena Människan för en ständig kamp mot monopol- och monopsonikrafterna. Fördelarna med regleringar är uppenbara. Det skriver Vilgot Österlund.

LEDARE | Människan för en ständig kamp mot monopol- och monopsonikrafterna. www.dagensarena.se/opinion/mark...

over the last ~20 years the applied theorist corps in econ has been hollowed out. now ~everyone is doing causal inference. good thing big policy changes with general equilibrium effects rarely happen and academic econ can stay "policy relevant"

Starstruck av att se Per Molander irl

Allan Manning on a big screen behind the panel at the conference Modern Labor Markets in Stockholm

It’s a big presence for someone who is not the messiah @alanmanning4.bsky.social

Collusion through Common Leadership Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Common leadership (two firms sharing executives or board directors) contributes to collusion.

Collusion probability between two firms increases by 12 percentage points after the onset of common leadership, compared to only 1.2 percent in the absence of common leaders.
www.nber.org/papers/w33866

My paper with Martin Olsson is now available as open-access early view at the Journal of Finance. We find that privatization lifted productivity while trimming headcount. The productivity gains exceeded worker losses by two-to-six times.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Volvo suspends production at SC plant citing parts shortages • SC Daily Gazette Volvo Cars has halted production at its Lowcountry plant because of a parts shortage. It's unclear which parts are involved.

Volvo suspends production at SC plant citing parts shortages scdailygazette.com/2025/05/30/v...

The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.

Whole Foods Union Certified by US in First for Amazon’s Grocer A union has been certified at a Whole Foods Market store in Philadelphia, marking a US first for the Amazon.com Inc. grocery chain.

U.S. recognizes first union of Whole Foods workers.

The broligarch coalition will move hard against these workers & the federal agency that enforces U.S. workers' right to organize to bargain collectively (@nlrbgov.bsky.social).
@josheidelson.bsky.social
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