Alex Taylor

After using fixest to output my regression tables in R for so long, one project is forcing me to figure out Stata's esttab for the first time...

Why is it so hard to output a tabular environment so I can do caption, label, footnotes, and width customization in Latex?

That's like four economics awards in a row with a substantial economic-history component, right? That strikes me as a remarkable shift. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists...

The latest front in the attack on academia:

The coffee shop near campus no longer does faculty discounts because of the tariffs (they mostly use Brazilian beans).

Though I primarily focused on voting in my Monumental Effects paper, some specifications did show this negative effect on lynchings. I always thought it'd be worthwhile for someone to run down that question in a more thorough manner.

Great to see more Confederate monument work!

New APSR sure to spark discussion argues:

Confederate monuments actually reduced violence against Black people historically & that their recent removals have increased anti-Black hate crimes

Monuments "act as a substitute for performative violence in constructing a white supremacist social order"

⚠️ Virtual Workshop in HPE info ⚠️

@adajkanu.bsky.social is presenting a project on "Colonization and the Politics of Belonging in Nigeria" on Thursday! Martha Wilfahrt (UC Berkeley) will discuss. Let me know if you're not on our email list already and would like to be!

Excited to host the All California (formerly All UC) economic history JM conference tomorrow — proud to keep this tradition alive and looking forward to the papers! events.berkeley.edu/events/event...

Good morning!

HPE candidates on the job market Job market season is here.

Looking for rising stars in Historical Political Economy? 🌍📚
Check out this year’s job market candidates: www.broadstreet.blog/p/hpe-candid...

In trying times, may we all strive to find the peace Stanley finds in a simple beam of sunlight

I used copilot in VSCode to switch my github website from jekyll to quarto, and it was almost perfect. Just took an additional prompt to clean things up, but it turned what could've been half a day or more of work into a 10 minute task.

Don't even get me started on how it's sped up my R coding!

Modern life is basically dependent on nerds you will never meet building software & spreadsheets you will never see

What the Trump admin dares to ask is: what if we just shoved as many of those folks as we could find into a locker.

If anyone has hot takes about how to teach principles of macro right now while meeting the following two goals, I'm all ears.

1. Teach my students key principles of macro policy

2. Talk about directly relevant current events without seeming absolutely hysterical

"Capitalism" with Trumpian characteristics.

*Sigh*

He's 8.5 pounds as of last week!

Absolutely! Was just looking at the database, looks like an excellent tool for teaching 😁

Yup, this is Stanley! Four month old mini dachshund, a big fan of his bed and chewing on everything in sight 😆

Classes starting back today got me like

"tariffs, by definition, cannot be inflationary" says the guy Trump just nominated to be in charge of defining and measuring inflation.

(He also also wrong. He's playing with MV=PQ reasoning, and assumes a supply shock won't ↓Q.)
[Source: www.aging.senate.gov/download/05/...

I received a very insistent demand for belly scratches this morning...

Who needs more than 5 years in right wing think tanks to run a major statistical bureau anyway?

Defense leaders to return Confederate memorial to Arlington Cemetery The sculpture honoring Confederate fighters and the separatist movement was removed from the miltiary cemetery in 2023, but will be restored soon.

*Sigh*

🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy? 🚨

At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE)—organized jointly with @dkofanov.bsky.social & @tinepaulsen.bsky.social—we discuss state-of-the-art research on a regular basis.

‼️ We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️

Link & info in post #2.

Positron lives up to the hype, especially if you already use VS Code for other things (for me, LaTeX and Python).

Well done @posit.co. Switching from RStudio immediately!

Being an absolute menace while Dad is trying to write a paper is exhausting work.

In case you were wondering, yes. This is a dachshund puppy page for the foreseeable future.

Well my productivity for the rest of this summer just took a hit. Having a gremlin in the apartment is a little distracting.

Happy to have Stanley join our family!

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Bad on multiple levels.

As the US Army celebrates it 250th birthday, Trump is celebrating the enemy that tried to defeat it.

You should absolutely do your own research, nothing is stopping you from applying for a predoc job, taking your GREs, applying to a PhD program, passing your qualifying exams, passing your dissertation defense, writing a paper you will come to hate and revising it for two years to satisfy strangers.