@rahul-mehrotra.com.bsky.social
Development Economist. Origins in Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb.
Sobering episode for anyone trying to join the dots to identify macro-risks slowly yet steadily building up over the horizon.
Ideal to suppress the pain of a challenging summer hike/ride.
Light-hearted, instinctive response to yet another thought piece (second of this summer) pondering the state of an entire field of inquiry without acknowledging the power dynamics that shape it 😉
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"Natural experiments, high stakes, ..., observability of strategies, incentives, actions and consequences, large datasets, exogenous rule changes, distinct social effects, and no Hawthorne effects. These and other desirable attributes for empirical work are found in sports settings."
Baller review.
Happy birthday 🇨🇭 - you are often abstruse, equally generous as you are insular, yet always beautiful. Beyond Alpine beauty & market liberalism, you are a shining political exemplar with centuries of distributed executive power, universal education & politically engaged citizenry.
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The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.
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Never expected FT accounts to dominate my news feed like this.. 😀
17.05.2025 21:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you for your measured and balanced reporting throughout the day, it is crucial for this still developing crisis exacerbated by lack of reliable news organizations on either side. Deeply regret the negative messages coming your way on X, take care and all the best.
07.05.2025 13:42 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Evocative essay on the public vs personal legacies of violence.
Can not help but contrast European experience with others who walked into an 'authoritarian trap,' at least in part driven by demand for protection from future violence. But which instead extends both public and private trauma.
Sorry, my mistake. Its one of those 90s movies which remains as a feeling, even when some of the details fade. Cheers
01.05.2025 14:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0May loved pineapples to be fair, but A+ post.
Just in case: there is an ongoing Wong Kar Wai retrospective at Cinema Grütli
Happy Chungking Express day to those who observe
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Deeply insightful podcast with Martin Wolf and @baldwinre.bsky.social, inducing strong feelings of déjà vu for Richard's graduate micro/trade lectures.
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