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If video were available back then, this is how disappearances during right-wing Latin American dictatorships would look.

Seeing citizens kidnapped by government forces should drive people to take to the streets, but apparently, it is not enough.

Etched in Marble: Dani Rodrik on Writing as Thinking and the Courage to Say It Out Loud Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

Few economists write like Dani Rodrik.

He combines clarity, precision with the courage to say what others only think.

Read my full conversation with him here: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

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I just received an email informing us about safety measures to take when traveling. Five years ago, I would not have imagined seeing these countries named together:

"Countries classified as high risk in terms of knowledge security are: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and the United States."

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Where are you, @alvarolaparra.bsky.social ? Welcome to La Terreta

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📆 Tomorrow (28th), 2 pm German time on Zoom

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Very good article by @martinsandbu.ft.com. I am still debating whether pragmatism now to prepare for a future confrontation might make sense. But when I hear European leaders praise Trump I do feel like the title of this article: they are selling our soul.

Unbelievable!!!

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Same experience here with a couple or recent tests. Perplexity Pro always failed when I tested it, no matter the LLM engine chosen, @carlbergstrom.com

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

Until mother says “I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do it” or “I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do”… :-(

Come hang with me at the Advances with Field Experiments (AFE) in Chicago Sept 18/19! ALSO pls submit a paper for the prizes (I’m helping judge and I’d like to see variety in the submissions!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

As densely populated apartments significantly outperform detached houses across virtually every environmental metric, Spain should be considered an environmental paradise, @kikollan.llaneras.es ??

Es una pregunta genuina, que conste.

Trust in science/scientific expertise is an essential ingredient of successful public policies. Great thread by @carlbergstrom.com below. A few years ago I wrote with Cristina Bicchieri on this topic:

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Cronyism, I’d call it

Thanks for sharing, @alvarolaparra.bsky.social :-)

Me estoy perdiendo algo, @jl-ferr.bsky.social ? Yo siempre me he definido como migrant (y nunca como ex-pat).

En inglés sí que hay esa distinción: migrant (as a person who moves regularly in order to find work especially in harvesting crops, Webster), versus immigrant (a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence) 2/n

Pregunta genuina: la RAE define a migrante como el que migra, o sea el que se traslada desde el lugar en que se habita a otro diferente. 1/n

Part of a strategy to hide reality as it is and prevent people from seeing the King as it is: Naked

A miserable WPost headline, btw

Damn… truly getting to PhD-level sentience

To state the obvious, the US economy has slowed down in 2025. Growth rates by semester (to remove the noise associated to imports/inventories dynamics in first two quarters)

The EU has validated Trump’s bullying trade agenda The US president’s deals are not a win-win for the global economy

Yes, but let's be clear about the narrative: this was not a trade deal. The US can always impose 15% tariffs on the EU, no need for Europe to agree. What was agreed is that the EU will not retaliate after that imposition (plus some other details that no one yet understands).

And bad news for democracy everywhere

“Biggest trade deal ever”???? Hard to believe that European politicians do not understand the damage they are causing to democratic values in Europe when they are willing to play Trump’s game.

Like Great-Grandparent, Like Great-Grandchild? Multigenerational Mobility in American History 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...

The past really sticks.

Even after 4 generations, your great-grandfather’s economic status still largely shapes your own.

👉 33% persistence across time for whites
👉 But racial inequality is the key driver

The American Dream? More inherited than we thought.
www.nber.org/papers/w33923

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