Constantine Sorokin

This is infuriating. Of the many tested and working policies to achieve equality of opportunity, they have chosen the one that will put millions of learners, unable to know what info is right or wrong, in the hands of hallucinating machines.

We are pleased to announce that the Makris Symposium in Economic Theory will take place in Bristol on Monday-Tuesday, 23-24 March 2026. MSET2026 is an in-person event organised by the same team as VSET.

If there a typo? U(y|x) instead?

We have just advertised a one-year postdoc in Oxford for anyone interested in economic theory and especially market design: econjobmarket.org/positions/11.... Feel free to reach out for more info! Applications from folks on the current job market and those planning to go next year are welcome!

I've closed my browser window. Good luck to anyone studying causality in economics, may the Lord be with you...
As I'm writing this post, I've decided that it's one of the best stand-up comedy lines I'd ever seen...

Yesterday I've decided to pay heed to the historic moment and watch Trump speech on a rally right before inauguration. Just clicked on a random moment of the YouTube video:
"Crime rates across the world are falling. And you know why!? Because they are sending all their criminals to the US!"

Sunset over the Isle of Man.

I did, it's totally fine.

Well, with all the news around Syria, there is something that might be of interest to this community. About a week ago, Bashar Assad's son Hazef got a PhD in mathematics from Moscow State University with the following topic "Arithmetic Issues in of Polynomials in Algebraic Number Fields."

Anton Kolotilin, Hongyi Li, Andriy Zepechelnyuk
On Monotone Persuasion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14400

Super exciting result, solving a century-old puzzle problem

🟥 ↔️ 🔺️

Maybe it'll help him in the future, and, honestly, his father should have stayed a medical doctor and not turn into a bloody tyrant.

Well, with all the news around Syria, there is something that might be of interest to this community. About a week ago, Bashar Assad's son Hazef got a PhD in mathematics from Moscow State University with the following topic "Arithmetic Issues in of Polynomials in Algebraic Number Fields."

In turn, i would be very interesting if the guys like him start welcoming negotiations... It's like deviations in mechanism design, you only believe them if they go against their own interest.

When there is no good fish to catch, you start taking bad one... Malofeev's own interest (both business and personal) is aligned with continuing the war much longer, so it's not very interesting if he denounces peace negotiations.

Malofeev is know for his extreme positions and lack of influence when it comes to real decision-making. Just ignore what he says as you would a white noise.

Should I post more photos from it here?

Our department's Christmas / New Year celebration! :)

Btw, when GDP per capita started growing rapidly, the population growth rate startred declining.

I understand that. What I'm thinking is the Maltusian dynamic (well-applicable to rural russia at that time) - you have periods of lower population and high GDP per capita, followed by periods of greater population and lower GDP per capita, so is it more about denominator than the numerator?

How much of that is due to changes in population? Like, was there a significant population boom during that time?

This should be used as an excersize in logical reasoning. can you spot a mistake?

Умри уже?
(с третьей попытки понял)

It depends on what projects I find interesting and relevant to discuss. Situational.

And one more thing. Hi everyone #econsky! Likely will be posting more science related stuff, conference pictures, etc. But for now - one small photo taken near Lancaster University!

Sunset over Glasgow