Good one lol

At this point also why not Mr Universe 🤣🤣🤣🤣

What he does with the English language might qualify him for literature

yup

3/3 Nordhaus: "Trump has drawn upon that social capital and is using it like a spendthrift teenager to achieve virtually nothing of value and to destroy many critical parts of the global institutional infrastructure"

Heckman: "He is more deserving than Barack Obama" for a Peace prize; he's not "polished enough;" "the jury is out" in Trump's attempt to restructure global trade

Nobel Prize winners react to idea of Trump winning economics award White House trade adviser Peter Navarro believes President Trump's trade policies have earned him a nomination for the award.

1/3 Peter Navarro suggested that Trump should win an econ Nobel prize for his tariffs. Here's the reaction of econ Nobel winners:

Maskin, Myerson: he has not played the academic game (aka published work in academic journals. Nobels are not awarded for policies

www.newsweek.com/nobel-prize-...

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged,’ Fires Labor Official

"Economy Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner"

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

Meaning US may stop publishing reliable statistics on its current economic situation

Is there any game-theoretic framework showing some short or long-term benefit to EU in the Von der Leyen-Trump deal?

"El fantasma de la inflacion": a title that is very neutral

'Our journalists might die of hunger': AFP press agency warns Gaza team risk starvation

'Our journalists might die of hunger': AFP press agency warns Gaza team risk starvationhttps://www.france24.com/en/video/20250722-our-journalists-might-die-from-hunger-afp-press-agency-warns-gaza-team-risk-starvation?

Quantification: History, Philosophy, Sociology, and Practice [Online Webinar] Quantification: History, Philosophy, Sociology, and Practice Online Webinar organised by the Society for the Study of Measurement Time: 9th August 2025: 9:00AM to 1:00PM (ET), 14:00 to 18:00 BST/WEST...

I'll be speaking at this online webinar on 9th August about "coproducing quantitative measures of value laden concepts: case studies from wellbeing" drawing on my research with @annaalexandrova.bsky.social among other things. The other speakers are great!

Register!
docs.google.com/forms/d/1IH9...

Article: Economists and economics in policymaking: historical episodes and methodological perspectives (introduction to a special issue), by Ivan Boldyrev & Esther-Mirjam Sent
doi.org/10.1080/1350...

WP: Identifying economic narratives in large text corpora -- An integrated approach using Large Language Models, by Tobias Schmidt, Kai-Robin Lange, Matthias Reccius, Henrik Müller, Michael Roos & Carsten Jentsch
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15041

Economists and economics in policymaking: historical episodes and methodological perspectives (Introduction to the special issue) Published in Journal of Economic Methodology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

The new paper co-authored with
@emsent.bsky.social
just dropped! Check it out, it’s the intro to the forthcoming special issue of the JEM, all of the papers are already available, I’ll post sth more about it when it officially appears.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

2025 Annual Conference The 55th Annual Meeting of The History of Economic Thought Society (THETS) will be held at the University of Warwick in Coventry on 3-5 September 2025. The conference, jointly hosted by the School …

The list of talks at this year's THETS conference is available, looks awesome! And I hope that other Warwick people who are interested in the topic -- like @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social , @yuvalmillo.bsky.social , and Matthew Watson -- will be there as well
thets.org.uk/2025-annual-...

we're so fucked

je suis désolée pour elle et pour toi.

From a presentation by Dan Hammermesh that I'm currently attending:

Up to 2018, guess who's the economist who published the most papers in top-5 journals

(spoiler: no it wasn't Acemoglu)

4/4 "Aggregating labor & land is in fact very much more like aggregating capital than you admit.... Once you notice that there are many kinds of 'labor' and as many kinds of 'land', then exactly the same problem in aggregation" (Solow)

3/n "your surely know that the only justification for the ubiquity of Cobb-Douglas is empirical...." (Solow)

2/n " in this field, Kaldor, Sraffa, et al are just the opposite of Keynesian...my interpretation of the failure of Sraffian econ with all the fus about reswitchnig, Joan's large book, etc, to gain any ground in the discipline is that it has proven to be fundamentally useless.... (Solow)

[FROM THE ARCHIVES] 1/n

(Very) old arguments never die.

Solow in 2000 - guess who he is writing to

"first, I reiterate that I see no connection - other than incidental - between the theory of growth and the theory of distribution..

Mankiw

[FROM THE ARCHIVES] Solow reflecting on why disequilibrium macro never caught on in the US (2000):

"I always thought that those models never got fair shake from American macro, probably because their fixed-price assumption was so bald and unsupported..."

"Even if you can by insurance against uncertainties not directly relevant to you, you don't know how they will affect you unless you can solve the entire GE system...This is one place where morality becomes important: productive efficiency requires that the information be transmitted honestly"

[FROM THE ARCHIVES] Arrow reflects on his lifetime research program in the wake of the Great Financial Crisis:

"50 years ago, I thought I explained that general equilibrium theory could handle uncertainty. I now understand why I was wrong: it has to do with the distribution of information...

From the archives: Arrow's rec letter for Maskin (to Peter Diamond): the question is not whether Maskin is suited to MIT, but whether MIT is suited to Maskin

Doing archives next to Virginia Woolf's desk today. Quite intimidating