Sean O'Connor

Hate the English

AL Northeast

I made the same mistake once and wildly underestimated how expensive tolls are in rural France

Photo of an empty lot with overgrown shrubs in the background and a Josh Kraft for Mayor sign in the foreground.

Empty lots for Josh Kraft, pretty good summary of his campaign @wutrain.bsky.social

Beating the heat How much are people willing to pay to avoid uncomfortable temperatures?

Not about the players' comfort, but here's an economics paper about the fans' experience!

www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

President stupid is an undefeated heuristic

Consultants FC

Even in the famously radical econ department, just about everyone in my undergrad cohort ended up as solid left-liberals rather than Marxists despite the some of the faculty and our inclinations to contrarianism

Diaz with flashes of Firmino with some of his efforts running back on defense, you love to see it

I'm not familiar with the methodology, but I have a hard time with metrics that argue America was more democratic in 1835 than 2024

Beating the heat How much are people willing to pay to avoid uncomfortable temperatures?

By the end of this century, the extra discomfort from hotter temperatures could cost Americans billions of dollars per year, say researchers at UT Austin, Montana State, and the FHFA. Their findings come from an unexpected place: America’s favorite pastime. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

I know nothing else is going on, so I'm thrilled to see that my paper on baseball and the unexpected costs of climate change got a write-up and front page treatment at the AEA!

Pentiment mug with critters in the style of the game’s art

Cheers to the goat

Don’t doubt that the games are more intense, but Denver didn’t make it to the knockout stage so I have a hard time believing 4 games in November against the Rockets, Pelicans, Clippers, and Mavs meaningfully contributed to them not repeating

The endangered New England Republican