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Pedestrianize Clark Street. Lefty urbanism out of the American Midwest.

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Eco Gecko@EcoGeck·
In today's video, we're taking a break from urban planning for the inaugural episode of Eco's Journal Club: in-depth analyses of cutting-edge academic literature on a specific, narrow question. Today's topic: are Americans getting richer or poorer? youtu.be/-Nc_THkV9DM
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@jaketropolis Hence the extremely slow recovery after the crash, it took nearly a decade for unemployment to drop to pre-GFC levels even as the most severe, immediate crisis was averted.
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@jaketropolis Adam Tooze's "Crashed" is great on this. In short, the US response to the financial shock was very well conducted and prevented total system collapse, but the response to the recession more broadly was lackluster due to an underwhelming stimulus package.
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How was the government response to the GFC? Did it work?
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@DanielKayHertz The only decently comprehensive English source on Soviet urban planning I've been able to find is a single chapter in an obscure dissertation from the 70s in a non-descript, yellowing tome buried in the "reference only" section in the upper levels of the Harold Washington Library
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Eco Gecko@EcoGeck·
(And yes, the video is slowly coming, I've had to read half a dozen books and 30+ academic articles to get to the point where I feel confident enough to understand the full picture)
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Here's some books in the latter category which I've found especially engaging. They're only peripherally related to housing costs, but I've learned that the crisis is really just downhill from much larger socio-economic trends (I highly recommend them all, obviously).
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Eco Gecko@EcoGeck·
I've been reading a big pile of books to get informed for a video on the causes of the housing crisis. In that time, I've learned that social science books that rely on statistical or microeconomic (and especially behavioral) models for evidence are pretty uniformly bad.
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Eco Gecko@EcoGeck·
@IronEconomist From the latest version of the book--by the author's own "guesstimates", the vast majority of the decline is either completely unexplained or associated with ambiguous "generational change". Near as I can tell, the NYT editorial is just making stuff up.
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Eco Gecko@EcoGeck·
@IronEconomist I have no idea where this guy is getting these quotes from--I read the entire, gargantuan book some time ago and nowhere does Putnam ever suggest that diversity is a cause.
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@vebaccount Do you have any recommended reading for those that would like to look into what actually happened in that period?
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Eco Gecko@EcoGeck·
Past a certain age, you just can't drive anymore--your vision, or reflexes, or motor skills just can't do it anymore. For many people that means becoming a prisoner in your society past a certain age. And that's bad!
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Didn’t Penn demote Karikó, cut her salary and tried to fire her ? Self-adulation over a Nobel prize but no recognition of the way they treated the ‘historic research team’ when it didn’t seem profitable enough. Turning Universities into businesses was a mistake
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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s historic mRNA vaccine research team, win 2023 @NobelPrize in Medicine bit.ly/48BswPR #nobelprize

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Eco Gecko@EcoGeck·
At this point, most social sciences are completely deserving of their crumbling public respectability. I just hope we can resurrect Alan Kay's vision of research before the whole system loses all credibility. (10/10)
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Instead we just get floods of studies like those allegedly recently falsified by a Harvard psychology professor, asking important questions like "does lying make you more creative" or "does arguing against your beliefs make you desire cleaning products". (9/10)
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The thing with research is you never know where a breakthrough might come from--there's no good way to assess how promising a given line of research. Unfortunately most contemporary universities have tried anyways, incidents like this as the result (1/10) fortune.com/2023/10/02/kat…
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