Florian Oswald

We shall not forget

on.ft.com/445lKl9 Trump’s world view: cynical, self-interested and money-grabbing

Your high-res picture is missing! ;-)

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org

The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

Not sure I follow. They don’t say “interested only in quantitative research”. They seem to post questions and look for answers, no?

let them eat toilets.

Things are not looking great. How on earth is this possible?

Wow really nice! I had no idea about this! Will use

Role of Media and Advocacy Media coverage of climate change has often emphasized catastrophic scenarios and extreme weather attribution, contributing to heightened public alarm. A 2022 study analyzing English-language news media found a significant reporting bias favoring storms and wildfires, with these events receiving disproportionate attention compared to droughts or other impacts, potentially skewing perceptions of risk materiality.[219] This selective focus aligns with broader trends where outlets attribute unusual weather—such as heat waves, floods, and hurricanes—to anthropogenic climate change, even when causal links remain uncertain or unproven.[220] Such framing has fostered a moral panic, as mainstream reporting routinely overlooks empirical inconsistencies in alarmist predictions, including historical forecast failures like exaggerated sea-level rise or Arctic ice loss timelines.[221] Advocacy organizations, including non-governmental groups like Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and Extinction Rebellion, have played a pivotal role in amplifying these narratives through campaigns, protests, and public shaming tactics. These entities mobilize grassroots pressure and influence policy by correlating their activities with shifts in public opinion on global warming, with studies showing moderate positive associations between environmental NGO presence and supportive attitudes.[222] For instance, Extinction Rebellion's 2019 actions, including street blockades in major cities, aimed to disrupt normalcy and demand immediate emissions cuts, drawing global media attention and pressuring governments toward net-zero commitments.[223] International NGOs further exert leverage via reputational costs, using public opinion channels and transnational advocacy to shape national laws, as evidenced in analyses of "climate shaming" campaigns.[224]

And so it begins, Musk's Grokipedia is scraping Wikipedia and re-writing things in Musk's image.

The entry for climate change?

Let's just say the Wikipedia entry has neither an "Economic and Policy Critiques" section, nor one on the "Role of Media and Advocacy" that accuses both of bias.

The @python.org foundation is fundamental in maintaining python. Y'all are waiting for the huge benefits of AI to materialize? Good luck without a working python ecosystem. Trump has cut funding, because they are here for everyone ("diverse and international"). You can chip in, 25$/year. #econsky

Look, I dont care about about your accent or limited vocabulary in English. But the Spanish Erasmus student standing in front of me, punching Spanish sentences into her phone, so that she can “talk” to me is one step too far. You must speak basic English. It’s embarrassing.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump doesn’t like climate change, so he just stops funding climate research. Great explainer by FT what this means. Obviously not smart to fly without any data through the haze in general, but even short term outcomes (weather forecasts, insurance premia etc) are under threat. on.ft.com/4nZI1II

Also @marionasegu.bsky.social is on bsky!

been failing to create a virtualenv for 20 mins now because I wrote matplolib instead of matlplotlib

how's your day going?

Castellano housing the Fellini Museum. Fellini was from Rimini!

Talked in beautiful Rimini about Tourism and Urban Economics to a room full of freshmen corsi.unibo.it/1cycle/clet/...
Slides here floswald.github.io/Tourism-Rimi... with shoutouts to @vlavetyan.bsky.social and @stefanpauly.bsky.social and @milena-almagro.bsky.social and others too

Cities surrounded by expensive farmland are denser and agricultural productivity growth has lowered urban density over time in France. Our multi-region structural change framework can explain it.

New paper by Coeurdacier, Teignier & @floswald.bsky.social

www.restud.com/structural-c...

#econsky

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Yeah I have seen this. It’s 100 dollars probably well spent but I don’t think anyone would pay for it

Civil war is for idiots and losers Your neighbor is not your enemy.

quite the post by Noah. Troubled times.

www.noahpinion.blog/p/civil-war-...

Claude Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic

no, that's Claude.ai (Sonnet 4) apologizing for itself!

If I find someone cheating, it's a straight fail. AI cheats all the time.
Exhibit 1: @claudeai.bsky.social

Real question is: is there a gap? ;-)

that can be good or bad news

And we are live! #econsky @jpolecon.bsky.social

jpedataeditor.github.io

The @jpolecon.bsky.social is the latest addition to the list of top Econ journals adhering to datacodestandard.org . Our data policy implements DCAS (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jpe...)

📣 We're excited to welcome Damian Clarke as the new Data Editor for The Economic Journal & The Econometrics Journal starting 1 July!

Huge thanks to @floswald.bsky.social for his outstanding work.

🔍 More info: shorturl.at/igXCz

#RESJournals #EJ #EctJ #EconSky

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The JPE is happy to announce that Florian Oswald is joining the journal as data editor in July. Details on JPE's updated data policy can be found at www.journals.uchicag....
@floswald.bsky.social
#EconSky

Why should one use this instead of Rcpp?

@resmedia.bsky.social Data Editor beating the #reproducibility drum 🥁 again today at Collegio Carlo Alberto
www.carloalberto.org/event/reprod...