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Peter Lorentzen

@lorentzen.bsky.social

Social scientist at the University of San Francisco's Economics Department. 纸上谈兵。

827 Followers  |  644 Following  |  37 Posts  |  Joined: 07.02.2024  |  2.425

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Petition Against Visa Restrictions on Chinese Students Introduction

More than 700 people (including me) have signed on to this petition against visa restrictions on Chinese students. It’s worth a read to understand why this Trump-Rubio move is yet another own goal and bad for American interests… medium.com/@lawasia/pet...

07.06.2025 06:09 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe we could invent a system where someone streams music to people who like it, then donates a little bit to the performers for every stream. And if they really like an artist then folx go to concerts and donate a lot of money all at once. We could call music funded in this way “popular” music.

28.05.2025 00:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
line at nintendo store

line at nintendo store

Big line at the new Nintendo store on Union Square!

21.05.2025 22:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Nicholas Borst, "The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025) - New Books Network

How does Xi Jinping think about the Chinese economy and where will he take it? Check out my interview with Nick Borst on his new book "The Bird and the Cage." newbooksnetwork.com/the-bird-and...

20.05.2025 22:42 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Plastics!

09.05.2025 15:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Those other people definitely need to get better at admitting they were wrong. I would, too, if I were ever wrong.

09.05.2025 15:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you, University of San Francisco, for the wonderful opportunity to share insights from my economics book, Hate the Game. We had an amazing turnout of people who came with engaging questions 😀

29.04.2025 16:13 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Sign up this weekend to meet @hatethegamebook.com in San Francisco next week!

19.04.2025 19:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Hate the game? Check out my New Books Network interview with @fairweatherphd.bsky.social, in which we discuss her new book on how game theory can help with getting a job, getting a raise, finding and choosing a place to live, romantic partnerships, and more. newbooksnetwork.com/hate-the-game

14.04.2025 15:25 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar The Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar is thrilled to welcome Daryl Fairweather! Daryl is the chief economist of Redfin, author of Hate the Game (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press) and a contribut...

The Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar is thrilled to welcome Daryl Fairweather!

Join us on Thursday, April 24th, 2025, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the University of San Francisco.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

15.04.2025 17:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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If you are in Los Angeles or the Bay Area next week come see my talk about Hate the Game at USC or USF (RSVP links in replies)

15.04.2025 17:33 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar The Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar is thrilled to welcome Daryl Fairweather! Daryl is the chief economist of Redfin, author of Hate the Game (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press) and a contribut...

If you are in the Bay Area, come join us after work a week from Thursday for her in-person talk at the University of San Francisco. Signups here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

14.04.2025 15:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Hate the game? Check out my New Books Network interview with @fairweatherphd.bsky.social, in which we discuss her new book on how game theory can help with getting a job, getting a raise, finding and choosing a place to live, romantic partnerships, and more. newbooksnetwork.com/hate-the-game

14.04.2025 15:25 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Home The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations promotes understanding and cooperation between the United States and Greater China.

Apply to Cohort IX of the Public Intellectual Program with the National Committee on US-China Relations! Seems like a really pertinent time to get together new voices of public intellectuals on US-China dialogue. DM me with any questions about the program:

www.ncuscr.org

10.04.2025 15:13 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

08.04.2025 00:03 — 👍 31665    🔁 8873    💬 264    📌 477
A cat in a box labeled hegemony

A cat in a box labeled hegemony

A little cat with big plans.

29.03.2025 03:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I may have a stowaway problem.

22.03.2025 00:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Indeed.

21.03.2025 05:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Are progressives allowed to be in favor of trade? Check out my new podcast interview with @kclausing.bsky.social, in which she discusses the progressive case for free trade, immigration, and global capital. And also what's happening now, which is mostly in the opposite direction.

11.03.2025 00:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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brother???

01.03.2025 17:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ports are for boats, right?

31.01.2025 20:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sonoma State is closing its Economics Department and laying off tenured faculty amid wide-ranging cuts. #EconSky

24.01.2025 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar with Jonathan Hall, Uber Reflections of an Economist Who Manages People

Thursday at Stanford, come join USF Economics and Stanford's Causal Science Center for the Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar, featuring Uber's Chief Economist, Jonathan Hall. How does economic theory meet practice at a path-breaking market-making platform business? www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-area-t...

10.01.2025 16:29 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar with Jonathan Hall, Uber Reflections of an Economist Who Manages People

Thursday at Stanford, come join USF Economics and Stanford's Causal Science Center for the Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar, featuring Uber's Chief Economist, Jonathan Hall. How does economic theory meet practice at a path-breaking market-making platform business? www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-area-t...

10.01.2025 16:29 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Sounds like a scarcity problem? People don’t give things away for free if they are expensive to get and in very high demand.

05.01.2025 20:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Latest podcast, From Click to Boom, with @lizhiliu.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/from-click-t...

18.11.2024 03:40 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
Samantha A. Vortherms, "Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China" (Stanford UP, 2024) - New Books Network

Why are Chinese people treated as citizens of a specific locality rather than citizens of the whole country, and how is that changing? @svortherms.bsky.social explains in her new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book on the hukou system, Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship. Interview here.

30.11.2024 20:47 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Ken Wilcox, "The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice" (John Wiley & Sons, 2024) - New Books Network

New podcast: How Silicon Valley Bank CEO Ken Wilcox ended up "wearing a green hat" when he tried to take their business model to China. newbooksnetwork.com/the-china-bu...

02.12.2024 19:07 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023) - New Books Network

What happened to the the world economy and what's next? Former World Bank Chief Economist Penny Goldberg teaches me about inequality and the backlash against globalization in my latest podcast on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

26.12.2024 16:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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