Marshall Steinbaum

This Wednesday: Join us in NYC for a panel discussion on how to rebuild American higher education from an engine of inequality to a pillar of the public interest.

Featuring @jmargetta.bsky.social, @econmarshall.bsky.social, Jennifer Chernega & @adamhsays.com.

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Event on Dec 3: Why American Higher Education Needs An Overhaul - Jain Family Institute In-person at the Century Foundation in Manhattan at 6pm.

Reminder: this Wednesday Dec. 3rd we (Higher Ed Labor United/JFI/TCF) are hosting a panel discussion about the future of higher education in NYC, where I’m releasing a new paper. Register here:
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Would you say these findings are consistent with statistical discrimination, if it’s so easy to change “type?”

Indeed. Therefore this finding is just a particularly stark example of the larger fact that discrimination refutes human capital theory.

Ah, I should have known. But then why doesn’t everyone change their name to “Elon Musk?”

Well, @dkuehn.bsky.social?

How does human capital theory survive the existence of this paper?

Event on Dec 3: Why American Higher Education Needs An Overhaul - Jain Family Institute In-person at the Century Foundation in Manhattan at 6pm.

On Dec. 3rd, I will be releasing a @higheredlabor.bsky.social/Jain Family Institute paper co-written w/Andrew Elrod:

Rebuilding American Higher Education: from an Engine of Inequality to a Pillar of the Public Interest

In-person panel discussion in NYC:
jainfamilyinstitute.org/event-on-dec...

I'll have more to say about the paper next week when it comes out. But if you're in New York, you won't want to miss the panel discussion

--Julie Morgan, Pres. of TCF
--Jenna Chernega, Pres. of the Independent Faculty Organization & chair of HELU's policy committee
--(me)
--moderated by Adam Harris

Event on Dec 3: Why American Higher Education Needs An Overhaul - Jain Family Institute In-person at the Century Foundation in Manhattan at 6pm.

On Dec. 3rd, I will be releasing a @higheredlabor.bsky.social/Jain Family Institute paper co-written w/Andrew Elrod:

Rebuilding American Higher Education: from an Engine of Inequality to a Pillar of the Public Interest

In-person panel discussion in NYC:
jainfamilyinstitute.org/event-on-dec...

It was such a telling episode in demonstrating how ineffective Dem opposition to trump would be. Their only intuition was to run to embrace the GOP establishment and try to coalesce opposition in the center, which was obviously doomed from the get-go.

Oh I remember this well. It used to be one of my main go-to embarrassing links for the Dem DC establishment.

Very glad to have been on @leftanchor.bsky.social to discuss l’Affaire Summers and the grotesquerie of “progressive” economic policy types covering for him & retaliating against his accusers to forward their own careers/garner his approval. #econsky

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fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus ep, we have @econmarshall.bsky.social on to talk about Larry Summers, his good pal Jeff Epstein, and Summers' noxious influence on the discipline of economics as well as Democratic Party policymaking www.patreon.com/posts/144130...

WOKE IS BACK

Summers is gone.

Now: why did he survive so long? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession

And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?

Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it

As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

Yes his Halloween decoration is a crucifix with a skeleton, and it’s still up.

Fantastic podcast episode. At one point @katewagner.wehwalt.net points out that McMansions come in all sorts of styles, including post-modern, which consists of oddly arranged rectangles. Behold my neighbor, completed ca. 2024. The owner is from Texas.

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We should introduce a new heuristic for judging academic careers: If they pursue the same field than their famous academic relatives, it's likely because of networks not ability.

Special Report: Supplying Accountability and Demanding Change — The Caravel “The goal of my two ‘disgrace’ blog posts is to bring attention to the systemic, cultural problems in the economics profession,” economist Claudia Sahm told the Caravel in an exclusive interview. Sahm...

In that case, it was also a student paper that reported the full story. Everyone else in the mainstream media published something perfunctory at best. Bloomberg & the Washington Post quashed deeper investigations at the Biden transition’s behest. www.thecaravelgu.com/blog/2020/12...

On this point, any regrets from the progressive nonprofit industrial complex for vilifying Claudia Sahm for blowing the whistle on Summers in 2020? Or was it all worth one failed administration’s worth of fancy economic policy appointments?

Damn, almost makes you feel sorry for @americanprogress.bsky.social building their whole economic policy platform around him, until you remember that they put Neera back in charge and so not cleaning house when you have the chance seems to be their MO! The dangers of gerontocracy.

The Harvard Crimson Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name "peril" but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin's emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.

gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

(It’s not just the white men who have horrible personalities….)

😬 👇 😬

A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice,
which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.

I highly recommend everyone to read this article for background on Summers’s entwinement in “progressive” economic policy nonprofits, including how that entwinement seriously undermines & compromises their work: www.thecaravelgu.com/blog/2020/12...