@chadpbown.com 's trade war timeline 2.0 has been updated! New updates include the US-India deal, the US-Bangladesh deal, details on the US-Argentina deal, and more: https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2025/trumps-trade-war-timeline-20-date-guide
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Thrilled to share that my first academic paper is out!
We investigated the impact of privatization on sanitation outcomes in Brazilian municipalities.
Grateful for my co-authors Ana Carolina Zoghbi and José Guilherme!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YI7I9...
Check out #GoodreadsYearinBooks Goodreads to discover the 37 books I read in 2025! www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...
31.12.2025 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Map of Walmart Supercenter locations in North Dakota and neighbouring states. Sunday morning store closures impose significant costs on consumers, but supporters of such ‘blue laws’ argue these rules protect workers, family life, and small retailers. This column uses GPS data to study the effects of lifting North Dakota’s strict Sunday morning retail ban in 2019. After the repeal, Sunday morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel and shifting shopping to preferred times and stores. The consumer welfare loss from the ban was equivalent to an extra 1.4 miles (2.25 km) per shopping trip, highlighting a trade-off between a day of shared rest and consumer flexibility.
After a repeal of North Dakota's Sunday morning retail ban, morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel & shifting shopping to preferred times and stores.
J Donna, @marit.hinnosaar.net @toomas.hinnosaar.net @andre-trindade.bsky.social
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🚨 New research, with @swatidhingra.bsky.social and Danyal Arnold
Brexit promised a “free” and more globally competitive UK. We take a closer look at what Brexit has meant for UK’s services exports using new data on trade barriers.
Five years on, we find the promise has not materialised.
One possibility is that there's nothing really preventing local communities' political leaders from adopting Modern-'Morality' themselves, but if there's hope, he seems to suggest it comes first from local politics.
06.07.2025 16:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Danish fishing industry example is even a very clear case of a national policy V. local politics. I didn't read Dependent Rational Animals, but maybe more context can be provided.
06.07.2025 16:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think the quotation about the "communitarian mistake" is a little odd. In "Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity", MacIntyre praises at least two communitarian -- in the sense the text seems to adopt -- policies (Danish and Brazilian), as well as a Wendell Berry's book, also a "communitarian" persp
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amazing q&a with paul krugman
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"This study estimates the carbon-efficient forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon. A $10/ton carbon tax could preserve 95% of the efficient carbon stock, avoiding 42B tons of CO2 & yielding $1.6T in welfare gains."
From @araujocrrafael.bsky.social , @franciscocosta.bsky.social & Sant'Anna
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🌬️ Just accepted 🇧🇷 in JAERE:
"The Effects of Renewable Energy Projects on Employment: Evidence from Brazil" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes (@hernandezcortes.bsky.social) and Sophie Mathes (@s-mathes.bsky.social)
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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