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Why haven’t working hours decreased more? Keynes predicted substantial economic growth to lead to a 15-hour work week by 2030. He was right about growth, but way off the mark on labor/leisure hours. Why?

@benconomics Maybe the rare civics schools (which seem to be unfortunately corrupt)

@benconomics No

Are there any actual politically conservative intellectual disciplines in the academy?

@NailYourShoes TA told me to go to an event organized by him. His retelling of the events:

@AlecStapp @wilhelmscreamin EconTalk?

@wilhelmscreamin think it's like 6: - dwarkesh pod - statecraft by santi - conversations with tyler - cheeky pint with john collison - interesting times with ross douthat - 80k

i don't understand why people think there are too many podcasts. there are like 3-4 good podcasts in the world. i would love there to be more good podcasts

@thedavidpowell sign ambiguous

Correlation = 0.84 x Causation

@NailYourShoes haven't they solved this in your city?

I love it when the uber I’m in *almost* crashes. like yeah keep me on my toes let’s have some fun

@ensrealissimums U got this

@zagrebbi @lionel_trolling “Yes Professor Kotkin, I do find you funny”

@lionel_trolling Maybe this is why I can never take him seriously

I love listening to Stephen Kotkin because it's like Joe Pesci is teaching you history

@_AashishReddy @fstflofscholars Excited to read this

@fstflofscholars Hence my forthcoming

A pretty good measure of society is how it treats its elders and its middles and its children

@Apoorva__Lal I agree, but what should Stata do? Just go OS?

This is what you get when a company embraces becoming the "Werther's Original" of statistics computing. No hope of keeping up or winning back any users, so they tailor to the geriatrics who think Stata™️ is the right way to interact with AI.

@aniketapanjwani 5% is too low. People are incredibly stubborn. Obviously tenure weakens any incentives which run against this

How long until <5% of applied microeconomists use Stata?

@gov1ndg Where is the contradiction

economists will talk scores about Pareto-improvement and efficiency optimisation and then use Claude code to write Stata do files

@jack_ceroni (It goes without saying that ‘so bad at math’ for a current Chicago Math PhD is still well into the 99th percentile)

@jack_ceroni This is encouraging to hear

Reading over my final project paper thing from undergrad makes me sick, I was so bad at math literally less than a year ago, may have to start doing some AG again to fix this abomination

@NailYourShoes Lmao my bad. I’ll blame my poor reading comp on the fact that I’m sick

@quant_____ also re: call I meant more along the lines of could yap on the phone for half an hour in the manner and topics I’m accustomed to. But yeah sure pull up to dinner as well if you’d like lmao

I love my family a lot but I don’t think I like cancelling my Friday night plans to go to P.F. Chang’s with them and talk about male pattern baldness

@NailYourShoes Yea I’m lucky I don’t usually have to cancel plans for family stuff if I had those plans first. That is a kind offer. Will do if I’m in the area lol

Look broadly it’s a great time tbh but tonight specifically I had other plans I was looking forward to, feel like it’s all a tad bit mean spirited, and anyway am in a kinda sullen mood That said, if this is really your speed then call me any time and I can give you a taste of Jewish family dinner table talk

@follynomics Framemogs everyone tho

Ts gotta be a hate crime 😭

@NailYourShoes See that sounds great actually

@quant_____ we usually hit interesting new topics every time. this time it was shit talking people who haven’t rsvp’d y/n for The Wedding™ yet, talking about various family friends having too high standards, and male/female relationship dynamics as it relates to career and income

@NailYourShoes Goodness I sound like a resentful teenager. But really, I just wish I felt more connected to all of my relatives.

Always a riveting discussion at family dinner. Topics are often: 1) people I’ve never met and my parents haven’t seen in 15 years. 2) some event/phenomena someone heard in passing on the radio (they know nothing about it) 3) small talk simulator (even though everyone knows eachother very very well)