David Foster

Judge Lopez said that the bankruptcy auction failed to maximize the amount of money that the sale of Infowars should provide to Mr. Jones’s creditors, including the Sandy Hook families, in part because the bids were submitted in secret. “It seemed doomed almost from the moment they decided to go to a sealed bid,” Judge Lopez said. “Nobody knows what anybody else is bidding,” he added.

Learn some auction theory! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...

⚖️Using a formal model, @davidfoster.bsky.social shows unilateralism can alter the landscape of group power through policy feedback effects, and survive a purportedly opposed new president www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView #OpenAccess

Politics, Not Expertise, Drove the Origins of the Administrative State - The JOP´s Political Science Blog Two upcoming decisions by the Supreme Court, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, may significantly diminish the power of administrative agencies. Th...

📢Politics, not expertise, drove the origins of the administrative state: @davidfoster.bsky.social & Joseph Warren use a formal model to show how potential policy feedback effects made an antibusiness coalition between liberals & populists unachievable.➡️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/politics-not...

Thanks, David!

Thanks, Elizabeth!

Thanks, Michael!

I am excited to announce that I am joining Florida State University as an Assistant Professor of Political Science in Fall 2024. Looking forward to working with so many great colleagues also using formal theory and quantitative methods. Let me know if you are ever in Tallahassee!

But Nickelson voters have a profitable deviation.

The proper way of pre-registering your annoyance with the NYT is to write something up NYT Pitchbot-style.

My Thanksgiving Day plans: go to the dentist.

How did this get published in The Washington Post? See if you notice the obvious question left totally unaddressed.

Did he not have a comb handy?

There is the whole behavioral economics literature on hyperbolic discounting. Relatedly, you should check out that on commitment devices.

Not sure why you are interested in this though. Don't you have a constant discount factor and complete and transitive preferences across all time and space?

Your organization probably set up special exemptions to their users' mail filters for certain specific sets of addresses. So someone deemed Shasta to be critically important.

"State capacity" is quite hard to define. Sounds like Louisiana could clean up litter if it wanted to. But maybe the preferences of bureaucrats are part of capacity. Vaguely reminiscent of the concept of X-inefficiency from economics, which was similarly squishy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ineff...

Sometimes it's better to forget.