Tim Bresnahan

Possibly. Pretty high overlap. At least we get to choose!

Following feed or Popular With Friends cut it down some.

Anti-fascism should have broad support across the American political spectrum. Elections need to be defended. Here's an open letter from retired professors at HBS in which we call for business leaders to address that need.
#econsky #academicsky
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Okay, that's amazing.

There is a wonderful interview of Takeshi by Jim Powell at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... He talks about all the serious stuff, but also about doing graduate admissions for a department that didn't admit him. Interesting person and great scholar. 2/2

Takeshi Amemiya, my colleague and friend for many decades, has died at age 90. He made fundamental contributions to econometrics, having, as an empirical scholar, some gripes with the available toolkit. In retirement, he taught a course on the Economics of Ancient Greece. /1

Terrific award! Congratulations 🎊.

Oystercatcher is a bird.

Congratulations and good luck!

Home - JHU School of Government and Policy Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy advances governance with research, data-driven analysis, and innovative solutions to today’s challenges.

Deep breath.

I'm honored and excited to join the faculty of America's oldest research university, Johns Hopkins.

I'll start this summer as a full professor, one of the founding faculty at the brand-new School of Government and Policy.

We're building something unique & important, even historic.

“at the intersection of algorithm design, economics, machine learning, and operations research. “
#econsky #academicsky
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Yes, I am an old guy. To be clear, I am not nostalgic for the amateurism. I liked USA-underdogs today and in '82. USA liberal democracy changing to authoritarian state, that I mourn. Gotta get that one back. 2/2

I watched the Miracle on Ice live in '82, in which amateurs from a liberal democracy beat paid "army officers" from an authoritarian state, with great national pride. Seeing Kash Patel, US authoritarian, in the locker room today was not the same experience. 1/2

Mildly against. Name labels students carry to their seats are better. For large classes, picture day holding up your name. Many benefits to Prof knowing who you are, however achieved.

Is it possible for democracy to win a quiet battle—and nobody notices? This clip tells a three-act story about the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the agency that produces the jobs report and… The BLS, Jobs Data, And Trust: Justin Wolfers On What Really Happened

My menchies show a lotta distrust about the official jobs numbers right now.

Lemme be clear: I don't believe there's *any* political meddling in these numbers.

While the President has tried to mess with the BLS, he failed. I explain in a lot more detail, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kncV...

Person who was fired here - you should still trust BLS data. The agency is being run by the same dedicated career staff who were running it while I was awaiting confirmation from the Senate. And the staff have made it clear that they are blowing a loud whistle if there is interference.

My co-author Charles Hodgson (Yale) is hiring a full-time pre-doc to work on projects focusing on the role of information externalities.

The hired researcher will meet regularly with faculty and receive dedicated research training & career development skills.

Application👇

LDI Seeks Next Replication Lab Coordinator and Research Assistant The School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Law School at Cornell University is seeking a Replication Lab Coordinator & Research Assistant (Research Aide IV). This full-time, benefits-eligibl...

Eleanor Wilkin and I are jointly searching for a #predoc (start: July 2026). This is the successor to my current fantastic pre-doc assisting the @aeadata.bsky.social but also working on Eleanor's work between econ and law! More information at www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/post/ld...

Football, pretty insipid. Best part was the flicker of competition from NE in the second half.
Ads, mostly murky attempting quirky. Redfin selling neighborhoods an exception.
Half time music terrific, blend of history, culture and energy.

Completely agree.

Last chance to present a paper at this Econ-CS conference
#econsky
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Darth Mit.

As a kid, Darth Omit

I'm still processing the recent loss of my thesis advisor, colleague, and friend, John Roberts. We put together an In Memoriam to honor his life and career. saet.uiowa.edu/wp-content/u...

Trump admin moves to finalize return of Schedule F Officials estimate that around 50,000 federal workers will be stripped of their civil service protections beginning in around a month, as unions, employee associations and good government groups decry...

Bad news today.
The administration finalized a plan to remove civil service protections from about 50,000 federal workers, with no exemption for statistical or scientific agency personnel. This erodes protection of those agencies from political influence.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20... #econsky

One fact of Black History that bears repeating: Black people loved this country, even as it did not love them back. Learning Black history requires understanding how Black people navigated an environment designed to dehumanize them: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky

I'm teaching a new course at Stern on AI in Finance and opening it up!

Syllabus/slides on Github: github.com/arpitrage/ai...

Weekly summaries on Substack
arpitrage.substack.com/p/1-three-ru...

First post is on Amdahl's Law, Jevons' Paradox, and why finance was slow to learn the bitter lesson

Hey Richard, not all of those are narrowly labor economics topics. Great agenda.

It's Langston Hughes' birthday. Poem-of-the-day two places:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/...
poets.org/poem/sun-song
Enjoy!

These fibbies are really mad, that's why they talked to the NYT. They remind me a lot of the people who worked for me at DOJ, i.e. smart, dedicated to the mission, facts first, and proud of it. Listen to them, please.