more beef! more beef! more beef!

Okay scientists...if you're so smart... invent a new type of cat...

Following traffic law is boring! Ignoring it is fun!

Give it a few years, and mainstream eco will rehash the cambridge capital controversy

Holding my breath so hard I quit being gay

Gender and the Dismal Science | Columbia University Press The economics profession is belatedly confronting glaring gender inequality. Women are systematically underrepresented throughout the discipline, and those w... | CUP

Here is a book about women in the early history of econ (in the US): cup.columbia.edu/book/gender-...

CSWEP has a list of journal articles/books: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

I can't remember the name, but there was a good recent article on CSWEP's founding. I'll share if I find it.

The history of women in economics is very interesting--I would be glad to offer some book recs if you want.

Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars 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...

Here is an Older version, it seems: www.nber.org/papers/w28494

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Very good price per pound :)

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US? It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why do people do gig economy work? Are the few businesses they "start" worth valorizing, or are they also a sign of the precarity of labor markets?

Grouping "gig economy" work into "entrepreneurship" points to the conceptual weakness of both frameworks. Thanks to the authors for making this clear.

Is there a higher res source for the chart? Would be useful when teaching.

Fwiw, the convertabilty of the psychological wages of whiteness to, say, USD is inconsistent at best. It can buy you, though, first boarding on many domestic flights and 20% off your movie ticket at select theatres

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A stacked bar graph showing the evolution of income for bottom 50% households over the course of the last economic expansion (2009-2019). It shows that these households saw their income growth by a bit less than 30%, compared to about 41% for top 10% households. The stacked bars show what components of income made up this growth. About half was from wages, with most of the rest from increased transfer payments.

This coming Monday, October 6th, I'm doing a 1 hour event talking about @equitablegrowth.bsky.social's inequality tracker and new gov data on inequality. Anyone can join, come check it out! (registration link in the next skeet)

I'm in the pocket of Big cafeteria

Municipal enterprises are a way for a community to make a democratic decision to redistribute monopoly rents typically accruing to some petty capitalist towards some collective end. And the democratic descision here? it should be easier to get consistent, cheap, good-enough food

I'm honestly in favor of municipal enterprises operating in many contexts, especially in markets with inevitable market power (example: city of Brookings, SD, successfully runs a liquor store, with a legal monopoly).

imo Mamdani shouldn't just campaign for municipal grocery stores, he should add "they also have affordable cafeterias"

fun biking in (place i live) because I'm developing new bad words to yell at drivers who drive like an asshole

How did you hear about this?

*annoying guy at party* okay, now here's "Marx biased technical change"

Fwiw, decisions like this (and other nativist labor mkt policies) both undercut real wages but also big pushes to increase capital intensity in formerly labor intensive sectors. Who stands to benefit from the second? Mostly big tech

Well, congrats. I'll give it a read :)

Wasn't this the subject of your job market talk at CSU back in 2019?

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