Stephan Maurer

High-quality and free pre-tertiary education

Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...

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Top 10 companies by decade:
None from 1995 are in today's Big 10

🌍 Haben oder Nichthaben: Chancengleichheit und sozialer Aufstieg 🔎 Eine aktuelle OECD-Studie wirft einen Blick auf die Frage, inwieweit wirtschaftliche Ungleichheit von Startbedingungen beeinflusst wird, die die Menschen nicht kontrollieren können. (1/3)

YouTube video by Johnny Cash - Topic Highway Patrolman

I was today years old when I learned that Johnny Cash covered Springsteen's Highway Patrolman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FZl...

Gibt ja auch einige Userszenarien, teilweise sehr gut gemacht (Baton Rouge, Prairie Grove, Helena, Langensalza, Nuits...)

Kommt bei mir auch so ungefähr hin, war eines meiner ersten Spiele überhaupt und immer noch eines meiner Lieblinge. Die Kampagnen sind sehr rundimentär und mit wenig Optionen, die Verluste werden schnell unrealistisch hoch, aber das Gameplay ist einfach cool und die OrBats gut recherchiert.

Vorsicht, in Podol sind ein paar Kompanien der Brigade Poschacher verschanzt!

🚨New preprint🚨

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In a sample of ~2 billion comments, social media discourse becomes more negative over time

Archival and experimental findings suggest this is a byproduct of people trying to differentiate themselves

Led by @hongkai1.bsky.social in his 1st year (!) of his PhD

"Political Representation Gaps and Populism", by Laurenz Guenther, is definitely one of my favourite (descriptive) papers of this year! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The updated version of our paper on the historical dynamics of the Great Gatsby Curve is now available as a @excinequality.bsky.social Working Paper:

kops.uni-konstanz.de/entities/pub...

#EconSky

Extra funding to attract US faculty and postdoctoral researchers to Heidelberg and other universities in Germany‘s southwestern state Baden-Württemberg (less cool than Berlin but prettier and, uh, richer).

And even less given that presumably inside the cost for these frigates somewhere is the cost of US-made AEGIS.

The projected 26b for the F127 might contain AEGIS though, no?

Worth noting though this only covers the $83b planned thru Dec 26 — so excludes US orders already placed (F-35s) or rumored for the more distant future (P-8s, more F-35s). So maybe not as big a paradigm shift in procurement as implied by the Politico article.

www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Time for this classic:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BCX...

Until the 18th century, navigation across the open seas was perilous. Sailors could travel long distances but faced an impossible task determining their position.🧭

Martina Miotto offers a new perspective for #Advantage on the way an advanced clock transformed global trade. 📰
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As part of the “America First” program, Pentagon has classified certain weapons types, including Patriot, as “in short supply” and is beginning to block requests for these systems from European partners.

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

Today's a busy day in Civil War history: #otd in 1862, Union forces were victorious at the Battle of Iuka, MS; in 1863, the Battle of Chickamauga (depicted here in an Alfred Waud sketch) opened; and in 1864, Phil Sheridan defeated Jubal Early's Confederates at Third Winchester.

🏠 El mercado de la vivienda de segunda mano marca cifras récord

Una de las socias de KSNET, @elenacostas.bsky.social lo analiza en @eldiario.es solo 1 de cada 10 ventas es de obra nueva, la demanda extranjera crece y los precios superan niveles históricos.

👉 www.eldiario.es/economia/fal...

Dann gibt es vielleicht bald die erste App, die Kaffeebestellungen über verschiedene Länder peer-to-peer austauscht ;) Ist "CoffeeWise" schon als Marke registriert?

Unpopular opinion:
1)What is happening in America is hugely concerning.
2) It is in both Britain‘s and Europe's interest to work closely together.
3) Neither Brits nor Europeans can afford to openly break with the US right now.
4) Making the most of that impossible situation is very hard.

We award the prestigious Hermann Heinrich Gossen Award to a researcher who provided outstanding services to the internationalization of economics. This year’s winner truly makes an impact with her work. Our sincerest congratulations go to Claudia Steinwender 👏.
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social

Join my outstanding research team in Zurich as a #predoc research associate in early 2026! We conduct empirical analyses of labor markets, globalization, technology and politics. More info and link to application: ddorn.net

Happy to share the programme for the 9th edition of the "Political Economy: Theory meets Empirics" workshop, taking place over the next 2 days in Bremen, Germany. #EconSky

Three knives are displayed on a glass surface, each consisting of a curved wooden handle with a chipped stone blade embedded with birch tar along one edge. The wood appears brown and polished, and the handles have a small hole near one end. The knives are shown from above with clear view of their construction and the number 4 is visible in the lower right corner of the image.

For #FindsFriday #Neolithic knives found in the pile dwelling settlement in Niederwil, Switzerland (3900-3500 BC).
The blades are made of flint. They were fastened with birch tar in the handles made of poplar wood.
The knife handles have a small hole near one end,...🧵1/2

📷me

🏺#archaeology

A polite reminder that some of the most fundamental and field-shaping research is UNfunded—or rather core-funded through institutional research leave—precisely because it doesn’t have to abide by the fickle trends and tickboxes that govern UKRI & Co. Frankly, this is an insult to the profession.

What leads to a professorship in German economics? A longitudinal analysis of tenure determinants (1984–2021) This study uses event history analysis to show what promotes tenure in German economics, utilizing a unique and virtually complete national dataset that includes 70,657 publications from 3955 econo...

Ever wondered how to get a professorship in economics? The answer is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The @cep-lse.bsky.social @warwickecon.bsky.social Junior Trade Workshop will take place on Sept 22 @cep-lse.bsky.social. Come meet and provide feedback to six promising JMCs! UK-based trade/urban/spatial aficionados are welcome to register here: cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/...