Aija Leiponen

That didn't take long

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So epstein was a mentor to summers in abusing young women. In 2018.

Who Exactly Ruined the Workplace, Including the Economics Profession?

Wow this is an incredible paper!
Frontier knowledge exposure can narrow socioeconomic disparities.

It actually matters what you teach!

This absolutely nuts.
I'm not sure there is a single scientist in the US who has not advised a Chinese graduate student in the past 5 years.

Whoa! According to Jason Furman the only US industry to grow this year has been data centers & IT

Ok. Do you have a source that explains why it won't happen? I'm not a technical expert but am curious.

Electrify! Electrify! Electrify!

And develop cheap green hydrogen.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

Did The New York Times soil itself? Some people say.

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Cornell's agreement actually explicitly restored academic freedom but it allows gov access to anonymized admission data (but not set the criteria).

Now would be a great time to stop legacy admission practices across the ivies and other top private universities.

It looks bad because it is bad #EconSky

Yes?

Hmmm?

Finland has a goal to be net zero GHG emissions by 2035.

Emissions were declining, the LULUCF removals were strong, the plan was looking good, but then LULUCF collapsed.

Net GHG emissions have actually risen over the last decade!

www.treasuryfinland.fi/investor-rel...

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Unreal

New WP (by me and others) on how disclosure mandates:

(1) increase disclosure (primarily of negative outcomes), and (2) how expectations of increased disclosure by others slows down innovation.

Link and more details in @florianederer.bsky.social's thread...

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

The Economic Geography of American Slavery Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Ending slavery increased GDP by 9.1% as slavery reduced the welfare of the enslaved substantially, while only generating minuscule welfare gains to slave owners. Fascinating topic that once again highlights how coercive instructions are economically detrimental!

www.nber.org/papers/w3435...

An NFT of a stock is not a stock

Growth = minimizing the number of people who are hungry, sick, homeless, or not free, within planetary constraints.

It's not complicated (in principle).

Heehee

Umm... That's not how copyright works

New York Faces Painful History as It Marks the Erie Canal’s Bicentennial

Some of the white pines, symbols of peace, that are around my house located on the traditional land of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ may have been here in the 1820s when Erie canal was built and the Haudenosaunee were cheated out of their lands, displaced, and largely decimated.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

Miki Kuusi: Hallituksen leikkaukset ovat vieneet suomalaisten uskon tulevaisuuteen Suomen kovin veronmaksaja, Woltin toimitusjohtaja Miki Kuusi sanoo, että Suomi on jumiutunut menneisiin menestyksiin ja lamauttavaan leikkauskierteeseen.

Only in Finland: the single biggest taxpayer criticises government for cutting taxes

Far as I can tell, Robert Redford was:
* successful at everything he tried
* genuinely intelligent & insightful
* desired by women
* envied by men
* an absolute mensch to everyone he dealt with
* a tireless, lifelong philanthropist
... and he died peacefully in his sleep.

10/10 life. No notes.

I hope this is accurate

No way

We seem to circling back to this

Global business should be all over climate change, particularly the financial sector. Risk management is their core.

Climate change is very bad for business and their economic analysts see the writing very clearly on the wall.