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Leonardo Monasterio

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Brazilian Economist at @ipeaonline; professor at @SejaIDP; @CNPq_Oficial Opinions are solely mine (or stolen from others) https://sites.google.com/view/lmonasterio #econsky

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Que sorte que a Anthropic tem o melhor produto e não é dirigida por sociopatas.
Dá para ser ético sem custo!

01.03.2026 13:35 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Some examples of settings, groups, and eras where purity spirals have occurred:[1][2]

Khmer Rouge
Cultural Revolution, Red Guards and mass denunciations
French Revolution
Instagram knitting circles[4]
Moscow trials[6]

Notable examples Some examples of settings, groups, and eras where purity spirals have occurred:[1][2] Khmer Rouge Cultural Revolution, Red Guards and mass denunciations French Revolution Instagram knitting circles[4] Moscow trials[6]

28.02.2026 22:22 — 👍 1920    🔁 416    💬 27    📌 39

The Urban Mobility and Climate Change Conference is just around the corner (March 5 and 6). You can either attend the conference in person, or watch it live online. See registration info and full program here www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/...

28.02.2026 17:32 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
tidychain

new package alert! {tidychain} is a #rstats packaged inspired by the below authors experience in showing how an excel file was changed / manipulated by looking at the underlying xml files to prove fraud in research

datacolada.org/109package

usrbinr.codeberg.page/tidychain/

01.03.2026 04:35 — 👍 51    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 1
Oil spills from tankers have fallen by more than 90% since the 1970s.

Stacked bar chart showing annual counts of tanker oil spills from 1970 to 2024, with the vertical axis labeled 0 to 120 spills and the horizontal axis by year. Bars are stacked to show two categories: medium oil spills (7 to 700 tonnes) and large oil spills (greater than 700 tonnes). Only medium and large spills are included; smaller spills are excluded.

Key annotations: a callout at 1974 notes 117 oil spills occurred that year, 27 of them large; a callout at 2024 notes 10 oil spills occurred that year, 5 of them large. Overall the chart shows a sharp peak in the early to mid-1970s, followed by a long-term decline in annual spill counts, with much lower and relatively stable numbers from the 2000s onward and a slight uptick toward 2024.

Data source in the footer: ITOPF (2025); website OurWorldInData.org/oil-spills. License: CC BY.

Oil spills from tankers have fallen by more than 90% since the 1970s. Stacked bar chart showing annual counts of tanker oil spills from 1970 to 2024, with the vertical axis labeled 0 to 120 spills and the horizontal axis by year. Bars are stacked to show two categories: medium oil spills (7 to 700 tonnes) and large oil spills (greater than 700 tonnes). Only medium and large spills are included; smaller spills are excluded. Key annotations: a callout at 1974 notes 117 oil spills occurred that year, 27 of them large; a callout at 2024 notes 10 oil spills occurred that year, 5 of them large. Overall the chart shows a sharp peak in the early to mid-1970s, followed by a long-term decline in annual spill counts, with much lower and relatively stable numbers from the 2000s onward and a slight uptick toward 2024. Data source in the footer: ITOPF (2025); website OurWorldInData.org/oil-spills. License: CC BY.

Oil spills from tankers have fallen by more than 90% since the 1970s—

In the 1970s, oil spills from tankers — container ships transporting oil — were common. Between 70 and 100 spills occurred per year. That’s one or two spills every week.

28.02.2026 20:08 — 👍 88    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 1

On a day like this, not even the For You feed can save you from the hot takes

28.02.2026 18:59 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Is my phone listening to me? - BBC Bitesize

Is my phone listening to me? - BBC Bitesize share.google/wv6JgQQxfTLW...

28.02.2026 20:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Não havia fake news e, mesmo depois do recuo, a medida segue sendo um erro econômico e político de proporções luciano_coutinhescas

28.02.2026 11:36 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Excelente o texto do Bacha

28.02.2026 11:34 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Até que o erro na percepção nem foi tão grande. Pornografia deve ter feito os pesquisados menos iludidos
(Uma pergunta como " você dirige melhor do que a média?" Tem percentuais bem maiores)

28.02.2026 11:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This new QJE paper concludes that the macroeconomic costs of climate change are far greater than earlier estimates suggested. It finds that a 1°C rise in global temperatures reduces world GDP by over 20%.

28.02.2026 08:05 — 👍 50    🔁 30    💬 3    📌 4
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Cool little experiment: if you subject AI to harsh labor conditions (rejecting work often with no explanation, etc), it slightly, but significantly, changes their “views” on economics - making them more “left”. Whether this is real or roleplaying doesn’t change that agents have alignment drift.

27.02.2026 17:41 — 👍 74    🔁 14    💬 8    📌 6
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time traveler from 12 months from now just sent me this

27.02.2026 21:25 — 👍 1612    🔁 205    💬 64    📌 33

The problem with adopting the terminology "late stage capitalism" is that it becomes progressively more and more funny to cite your work as time goes by, like "as has been shown, late stage capitalism is hurtling us towards rapid collapse (Smith, 1974)".

27.02.2026 08:58 — 👍 345    🔁 37    💬 34    📌 3

Eduardo Angeli, meu amigo e craque de HPE ,me contou que foi o professor Jorge Miglioli (Unicamp). Ele fez doutorado na Polônia nos anos 60, voltou e difundiu as ideias do Kalecki no Br

27.02.2026 11:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
(Chart 1: “Sugar Prices at Amsterdam, 1609–1763”): Line chart of annual average sugar prices in Amsterdam (y-axis: groten per pound; x-axis: years 1609–1763) for multiple origins and grades: Brazil White (highest series), São Tomé, Barbados, Caribbean & Surinamese aggregate, Martinique, Saint-Domingue, and dashed “powder/refined” series (Martinique Powder, Saint-Domingue Powder, East Indian Powder). Brazil White is very high and volatile in the 1620s–1650s (peaks above 30 groten), then reappears lower (roughly 9–13) in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; raw Caribbean series cluster mostly around 4–9 groten when present, while powder/refined series sit above the raw lines and rise sharply in the 1750s–1760s. Shaded background bands mark major conflict periods (Dutch Brazil 1630–54; Nine Years’ War 1689–97; War of Spanish Succession 1702–13; War of Austrian Succession 1744–48; Seven Years’ War 1756–63), and line breaks indicate years with no surviving quotations.

(Chart 1: “Sugar Prices at Amsterdam, 1609–1763”): Line chart of annual average sugar prices in Amsterdam (y-axis: groten per pound; x-axis: years 1609–1763) for multiple origins and grades: Brazil White (highest series), São Tomé, Barbados, Caribbean & Surinamese aggregate, Martinique, Saint-Domingue, and dashed “powder/refined” series (Martinique Powder, Saint-Domingue Powder, East Indian Powder). Brazil White is very high and volatile in the 1620s–1650s (peaks above 30 groten), then reappears lower (roughly 9–13) in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; raw Caribbean series cluster mostly around 4–9 groten when present, while powder/refined series sit above the raw lines and rise sharply in the 1750s–1760s. Shaded background bands mark major conflict periods (Dutch Brazil 1630–54; Nine Years’ War 1689–97; War of Spanish Succession 1702–13; War of Austrian Succession 1744–48; Seven Years’ War 1756–63), and line breaks indicate years with no surviving quotations.

(Chart: “Sugar Prices at Amsterdam, 1664–1763”): Line chart of annual average sugar prices in Amsterdam (y-axis: groten per pound, roughly 2–20; x-axis: 1664–1763) with separate series for Brazil White (highest line), São Tomé, Caribbean & Surinamese (aggregate), Barbados, Martinique, Saint-Domingue, and dashed refined/powder grades (Martinique Powder, Saint-Domingue Powder, East Indian Powder). Brazil White is very high in the mid-1660s (around 16–19 groten), then mostly around 10–13 when quoted (with long gaps), and rises again in the 1750s. Barbados and the Caribbean/Surinamese aggregate sit lower (generally about 5–9), with a clear dip in the early 1720s. Martinique and Saint-Domingue begin only in 1719 and cluster around 4–6 through the 1720s–1730s, then rise in the 1740s and especially the 1750s. Powder/refined series appear mainly after 1750 and run above the raw Martinique and Saint-Domingue lines, reaching the mid-teens by the early 1760s. Shaded background bands mark major wars (Franco-Dutch War 1672–78, Nine Years’ War 1689–97, War of Spanish Succession 1702–13, War of Austrian Succession 1744–48, Seven Years’ War 1756–63); vertical dashed markers label key moments (Rampjaar, Methuen, Law/SSB, Aix-la-Chapelle). Line breaks indicate years with no surviving quotations.

(Chart: “Sugar Prices at Amsterdam, 1664–1763”): Line chart of annual average sugar prices in Amsterdam (y-axis: groten per pound, roughly 2–20; x-axis: 1664–1763) with separate series for Brazil White (highest line), São Tomé, Caribbean & Surinamese (aggregate), Barbados, Martinique, Saint-Domingue, and dashed refined/powder grades (Martinique Powder, Saint-Domingue Powder, East Indian Powder). Brazil White is very high in the mid-1660s (around 16–19 groten), then mostly around 10–13 when quoted (with long gaps), and rises again in the 1750s. Barbados and the Caribbean/Surinamese aggregate sit lower (generally about 5–9), with a clear dip in the early 1720s. Martinique and Saint-Domingue begin only in 1719 and cluster around 4–6 through the 1720s–1730s, then rise in the 1740s and especially the 1750s. Powder/refined series appear mainly after 1750 and run above the raw Martinique and Saint-Domingue lines, reaching the mid-teens by the early 1760s. Shaded background bands mark major wars (Franco-Dutch War 1672–78, Nine Years’ War 1689–97, War of Spanish Succession 1702–13, War of Austrian Succession 1744–48, Seven Years’ War 1756–63); vertical dashed markers label key moments (Rampjaar, Methuen, Law/SSB, Aix-la-Chapelle). Line breaks indicate years with no surviving quotations.

Looking at EM sugar prices across multiple periods is fascinating, even though my series is incomplete. The collapse after Barbados enters the picture makes every other change look like peanuts. I knew that (and the literature has known it for ages), but it is still wild to see it plotted.

26.02.2026 22:32 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
“Well, according to the dictionary, I’m just a large, flightless bird from East Africa. ... But believe me, Doris—once you get to know me, you’ll see I’m much, much more than that.”

“Well, according to the dictionary, I’m just a large, flightless bird from East Africa. ... But believe me, Doris—once you get to know me, you’ll see I’m much, much more than that.”

“Well, according to the dictionary, I’m just a large, flightless bird from East Africa. ... But believe me, Doris—once you get to know me, you’ll see I’m much, much more than that.”

26.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 270    🔁 47    💬 0    📌 0
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New work on school cell phone bans just dropped.

"Bans...led to a[n] ... increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year."

"We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban."

20.10.2025 12:29 — 👍 192    🔁 47    💬 6    📌 8
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www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

#Econsky

26.02.2026 15:50 — 👍 29    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

www.gov.br/mdic/pt-br/a...

26.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Traffic fatalities increase on the days of major music album releases, when online streaming to mobile devices surges, raising the possibility of driver distraction, from Vishal R. Patel, Christopher M. Worsham, Michael Liu, and Anupam B. Jena www.nber.org/papers/w34866

26.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
Identification K9 puts professional ethics over personal attachments

Identification K9 puts professional ethics over personal attachments

Time to repost some causality memes #IdentificationK9

26.02.2026 14:22 — 👍 47    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

Eu me lembrei que a Conceição já o citava nos anos 1970. De onde será que ela o conheceu?

26.02.2026 10:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

A nota técnica que justifica este absurdo é vergonhosa, mas me fez pensar: quem foi que introduziu Kalecki no BR?
Na UFRJ, nos anos 80, ele era ensinado como se estivesse no mesmo nível do que Keynes.
Será que foi via New School ou será os cursos já constava nos cursos da Cepal? Alguém sabe?

26.02.2026 10:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1

Deve ser horrível viver em um país em que o executivo resolve taxar as importações para se financiar (e vender favores)

25.02.2026 19:02 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Desespero completo

25.02.2026 18:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.

Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.

How does he sleep at night?

25.02.2026 09:14 — 👍 3601    🔁 605    💬 98    📌 54
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Why Is Fertility So Low in High-Income Countries? (Forthcoming Article) - We consider why fertility has fallen in recent decades in almost all high-income countries. We begin by documenting declining total fertility and rising childlessness across cohorts, highlighting the need to focus on cohort versus period-specific fertility rates. With this motivation, we propose a conceptual model of fertility determination that augments the standard Becker model with an explicit role for social norms and cohort-specific contextual factors, including broad social and economic influences and an expanded set of consumption and lifestyle options. We posit that these forces have led to “shifting priorities,” reducing the centrality of parenthood. We then review existing empirical evidence –and conclude that the decline in fertility likely reflects a complex mix of changing norms around work, parenting, gender roles, and leisure consistent with our cohort-based conceptual framework. We conclude with suggestions for future research and a brief discussion of policy implications.

Forthcoming in the JEL: "Why Is Fertility So Low in High-Income Countries?" by Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine.

25.02.2026 09:03 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

Pessoal esquece que um não resultado tbm é um resultado. Mas isso vem muito da cultura de publicar tudo o tempo todo

24.02.2026 14:52 — 👍 46    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Torço pela Polilaminina. E é por isso que exijo rigor. Sem rigor científico, a polilaminina pode ser só mais uma cloroquina.

Bom texto:
piccini.substack.com/p/torco-pela...

24.02.2026 20:08 — 👍 25    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0