Marciano Siniscalchi

Except it's not Little Pharma, it's Little "Pharma"

Two books side by side: "What they teach you at Harvard Business School" and "What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School"

Reminds me of this evergreen

This not to discount the relevance of psychology and sociology, to be clear! Just making the point that economics also has a lot to say on the subject.

Market Institutions and Price Discovery ‘Charles R. Plott has a formidable armoury of experience backed up with an inquiring and rigorous intellect: an economist interested in getting clear answers to important questions. Before effectively...

There are plenty of papers in economics (published in refereed journals) dealing with behavioral aspects of risk-taking, as well as market experiments. E.g. Look up Charlie Plott at Caltech, who literally wrote the book on "Market institutions and price discovery" www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/mar...

There is a huge literature on insider trading in economics, not to mention market design (paging @alroth.bsky.social). But, just because a popular website has "market" in its name doesn't mean that serious economists were directly involved in its design.

This is what I fear the most every time I write a decision letter 🙂

...not to mention "Reasoning about Knowledge"

So sad to learn about Joe Halpern's passing. What Tobias describes resonates fully with me.

Andrej Karpathy is at It again

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Best news to start the day

YouTube video by Tymofiy Mylovanov Update from KSE

#EconSky: Tymofiy Mylovanov from the Kyiv School of Economics is a simply a hero.

While Trump is busy allying with Putin, Tymofiy is out in the cold working for his students and his country.

I will match all donations to KSE, up to $1K total (link below).

www.youtube.com/shorts/RgDXI...

Another post I will use soon in my GE course

What could possibly go wrong

Goldman Sachs to tap Anthropic AI model to automate accounting, compliance share.google/SqYnQZ9EV5Jc...

Absolutely - I hope this will be suitably amplified, though I am not so sure it will.

Shocking, I say!

Great resource! Thank you for putting this together. Bookmarked

I just learned about D. John Roberts' passing. One of the giants.

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well played

I'm teaching uncertainty in GE soon and I'm going to steal this thread

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Please help keep Peet's open. A long shot, but worth trying!

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I understand there is a lot going on in the world these days, but I would have expected the uprising in #iran to get more coverage/reactions on Bluesky

Every once in a while, football can actually be riveting, even for Italians

LLMs as lossy compressione

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Oh boy

I had missed this news. Really sad to learn about John's passing.

Frank Gehry, the most celebrated architect of his time, dies at 96 The lauded architect designed such striking buildings as the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Frank Gehry, the most celebrated architect of his time, dies at 96

So basically there is (essentially) no compensation for the option value, at least if workers are paid the minimum wage for hours actually on the job. I wonder if things are different in other countries (e.g. EU).

I just want to say kudos for a fantastic story (where by "fantastic" I really mean "terrifying")

Regulation Threatens the Progress of Personalized Medicine A new class of treatments calls for a new regulatory framework.

Research indicates that traditional drug testing and approval processes threaten to prevent many promising personalized medicines from ever reaching the market.

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/regul... #econsky