Gina C. Pieters, PhD

Larry Summers’ sexism is jeopardizing his power and privilege, but the entire economics profession hinders progress for women In 2024, only about 1 in 3 newly minted economics Ph.D.s were women.

This piece I wrote for @theconversation.com argues that the Summers/Epstein debacle reflects what the data show: systemic bias in the economics profession’s practices and culture. That bias influences who succeeds and who is sidelined. #EconSky theconversation.com/larry-summer...

The American Economic Association's Committee on the Job Market surveyed Economics Departments in the U.S. regarding their plans to hire assistant professors this cycle (2025-26). 29.7% said that their department was under a hiring freeze.
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#EconSky #EconJobMarket

Chicago's cabs/taxis now have their own app: Curb. That may be whats causing the delay now?

Oh that's a great idea!

#TeachEcon: Not sure if everyone else already knew this, but going through my LinkedIn connections has been an absolutely delightful way to see what my past students have been up to.

Looking to speak with academics/experts specializing in video games studies specifically ideas around conquest, environmentalism, and land for a piece. Please repost this or give recs.

Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

In March 2019, we asked our US Economic Experts Panel about Modern Monetary Theory. The results of the 1st question are below: kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/mode...

Google Maps is a more impressive achievement than any given physical wonder of the world, in my opinion.

Economics Literature Search Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!

This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.

paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Grape Harvest Dates in Beaune/Burgundy, 1659-2018.
Since the early 1980s, the moving 20-year avg of Burgundy grape harvest dates has dropped by 16 days. That is, harvest starts more than half a month earlier than 35 years ago.  #climatechange #globalwarming

A newspaper full page ad with a brightly colored burst of exploding powder, Adobe logo in the corner, copy reading “experience the magic of buying new software every month forever”

Print edition @theonion.com ads don’t miss

Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness

I hear the young 'uns have created a new form of media they're calling a "video podcast".

Whatever will they think of next?

The American Economic Association should select its president through an open election with multiple candidates.

NBER, BREAD, and JPAL should allow self-nominations for membership, rotate the committees that decide, and provide feedback to rejected applicants.

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

A Barbecue Standout Is Expanding to Hyde Park Plus, a New York soup dumpling restaurant will arrive in River North.

Wait what? But what about the new bbq place? chicago.eater.com/chicago-rest...

The webinar overview of the coming #EconJobMarket is now posted to the AEA website. It contains info about trends in the # of jobs, recent # of applications/interviews/flyouts/offers, and placement outcomes, as well as advice. #EconSky
www.aeaweb.org/joe/communic...

Who are the economists most central to the profession? CollEc provides answers from co-authorship network analysis. Bonus: find the shortest path between any two economists.

collec.repec.org

#RePEc #EconSky

This morning, the @chicagofed introduced new labor market indicators that combine private sector data with official labor statistics to provide a real-time view of hiring, layoffs and other job separations, and an early forecast of the unemployment rate. www.chicagofed.org/research/dat....

I am super super thrilled for you! I hope that this time around you can embark on the journey on terms that match you.

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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

#EconSky or #PolicySky: Is there anywhere that lists which tariffs are *actually* being enforced at the moment, and when any that have been announced but are suspended/etc. are slated to take effect?

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Constitutional calvinball

One thing I feel like everyone needs to understand: those social-democratic Scandinavian nations we're all jealous of? Their market economies are *less regulated* than ours. More free. It's just that they collect a lot of taxes on the back end & fund social services & infrastructure.

Lots of reporting on Cook's firing at the Fed overlooks probably the most important part: the presidents of all 12 regional Feds are up for renewal in February 2026!! If Trump replaces Cook by then, he will have appointed a majority on the Board of Governors, who approve regional Fed appointments. 🧵

I love economic history because for instance, you discover that a bicycle bubble happened in Great Britain during the 1890s