James Feigenbaum

being in any way impressed by hanania or seeing him as a voice worth hearing is definitive evidence that your brain is a perfect sphere

@lukestein.com, who did you piss off to land the 545am Sunday morning research post?

Massachusetts, after we re-legalize triple deckers statewide #mapoli

Not sure which way the causality runs, but "can you understand the most obvious satire in media?" is highly predictive of partisanship

Massachusetts, after we re-legalize triple deckers statewide #mapoli

Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined

I posted three main figure from the article below

www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...

A proposal that will quickly divide people who understand the economics of housing from those who don't

NYC considering reviving SROs — a great idea that restores the missing lowest rung on the housing ladder; a new bill would allow ~100 sq ft rooms w/ shared facilities, replacing a stock that’s fallen to 30–40k today from 100k+ in the early 1900s

www.6sqft.com/new-bill-wou...

Once upon a time, Senan was an RA for @danielpgross.bsky.social on our telephone operators papers

I guess we lost a future economic historian to labor+metrics, but this is a very cool jmp

A drag on the ticket? Estimating top‐of‐the‐ticket effects on down‐ballot races by Kevin DeLuca, Daniel J. Moskowitz, and Benjamin Schneer is now available in Early View. @cantstopkevin.bsky.social @danmoskowitz.bsky.social @benschneer.bsky.social ow.ly/8Hun50XAhmq

Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline.

I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:

"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"

> don't let physicists or engineers do economics

so I have bad news and worse news

Intergenerational persistence in occupations

9 favorite history books 2025.

1. Capitalism: A Global History, Sven Beckert

(my ability to find typos only after sending things to the editor apparently extends to skeets...)

The JEH was, is, and continues to be in good hands

Don't spend your Black Friday chasing deals. Read job market papers (and hire my students) instead

@john-fallon-econ.com studies both occupational licensing AND the bizarre world of early 20th century healthcare, w MDs and chiropractors competing over patients to fix (or at least make less worse)

Congestion pricing and triple the tolls on the Pike and let's increase frequency of the Worcester-Framingham commuter rail 10x. Pretty please?

Non contiguous Massachusetts isn't super practical, but I still think it's a good goal for the Commonwealth #mapoli

Beth Israel has poached at least 18 Mass General Brigham primary care clinicians, worth potentially millions in business - The Boston Globe MGB says the latest departures represent "a small number" of its primary care providers, and vows to help patients with the transition.

Utterly deranged framing on this piece about labor mobility between two massive employers (and health care providers), @bostonglobe.com. Leading with costs to the employer? Poaching?

The MBTA Communities Act penalties were not nearly harsh enough, part 452 #mapoli

An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.

There's so much more troubling stuff in there:

www.wsj.com/economy/aida...

I liked it better when the goal of an econ phd first year was to survive MWG and avoid embarrassing yourself too many times in class

Okay $1.50/mo is savings isn't exactly the jackpot...

But rather than charging MA rate payers, we should recover the delay costs with tolls on I-95 and I-93 at the NH border for cars with NH and ME plates

Mass. will get a jolt of Canadian hydropower soon, following years of controversy A 1,200 megawatt transmission line carrying carbon-free electricity from Quebec to New England is expected to go online soon

Sweet, sweet Canadian hydro power finally on the way #mapoli

www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

Raccoons can open bungee-closed trash barrels and chill inside so quietly that neither a human nor a dog will notice until flipping the lid open to throw in a bag of trash.

Ask me how I know

Why didn't they poll trust in economists?

Higher education is one of our country's most successful export industries.

And the exports (i.e. international students coming here) make it more affordable for domestic students.

No decently run government would interfere with that, but here we are.