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@Jackbmeyer With a straight face? Then my answer is, absolutely. It's the only of those texts still on my shelf after teaching micro over many years. But it also embodies how little conceptual progress we have had since it was published 30 years ago and what's wrong with the discipline.

If you want to learn Economics, don't enroll in any course. Just read this book. I'm not kidding. It will seriously teach you more than anything else can.

Local news hijack: Liz Jones & Broken Windows and three great local acts live up the valley in Kinlochard village hall tomorrow night, final few tickets and going fast: tickettailor.com/events/kinloch… We're raising funds to help complete a 22 acre community land buyout

@S_Stantcheva @LSEnews Great lecture and contribution to the rapidly behavioral policy field, Coase would have approved of this broader perspective on economic method. Economica though, not so much? Absence of papers built on his work or their celebration(not) of his paper in their outlet. #branding

The recording from the Coase lecture at @LSEnews on "Perceptions, Mindsets and Beliefs Shaping Policy views" is now available for those interested (and slides too!) socialeconomicslab.org/updates-and-ev…

@timricketts_ This is hairraisingly misleading, and the FT article actually points it out, albeit very meekly towards the end. Show me a single junior doctor in training whose take home pay has actually declined 25% over that period. I even grant you free choice of inflation correction.

This would see an F1s pay increase for £14 an hour to £19 an hour, and an ST8 (the most senior junior doctor) go from £28 an hour to 37.8 an hour. We think this is a fair ask, and I think most would agree

There’s a lot of confusion about junior doctors at the moment. Who are they? How much are they paid? Why are they striking? I’m a junior doctor, and thought I’d do a thread on the topic, so that people can link to it when someone spouts misinformation A 🧵

@BloombergUK Crucially for UKs HE sector, @vonderleyen has confirmed this clears way for #horizon association agreement so thhat we can finally get back to business with our EU academic colleagues

BREAKING: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces the "Windsor Framework," a new Brexit deal between the UK and EU on Northern Ireland that he says is a "decisive breakthrough" bloom.bg/3Y71TMe

@BretDevereaux Sorry for coming in sideways with an unrelated question: being new to this but keen to incorporate in my teaching, do any of these games allow for some of the dynamics of forming customs / free trade unions, in gameplay or context?

Got my chance to play Victoria III at PDXCON. It's complex and has a lot of complicated systems and a fearsome seeming learning curve, but for all y'all who have been waiting for it...I think you are going to be very pleased.

@jaredcrubin @jaj7d This will be a most useful reference point for demarcating the North American tradition of political economy in our discipline.

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (co-edited with @jaj7d) will be published in September 2023! Chapters available as they are formatted at: academic.oup.com/edited-volume/… The contributors did an amazing job. A thread on each chapter in the volume… (1/47)

@and_joy_ @jmorenocruz @CleoCZ My favourite along those lines: you really want the basic principal agent model to be linear because tractability and how else could it ever become mainstream. So you cobble together a behemoth of multi-period random walk that in the limit turns out to be, wait for it, linear 😀

@jmorenocruz @CleoCZ Writing the model that fits the story (mechanism) rather than just the data

@LabSapienza @AISPE_2021 @EdithKuiper @manuelamosca60 @rgbetancourt Great to see in print and introduced so splendidly. I fear our field still struggles with the need for historiography to *systematically* include the voices of women.

Here is the recording of the last Minerva Lab/@AISPE_2021 webinar for the presentation of "A Herstory of Economics" youtu.be/Q5T7Ad6lbGQ Thank you @EdithKuiper @manuelamosca60 and @rgbetancourt for such an incredible seminar!

@sciencespo rip Bruno Latour, 1947-2022 The Edinburgh Gifford lectures in 2013 his most spectacular, but at his pithiest last year for the Kyoto Prize, from wine to Pasteur to the pandemic and back. Or, the best explanation of modernism, ever: youtu.be/V0IqItHwUA4

Bruno Latour était un enchanteur. Il avait renouvelé la façon de penser et de s'exprimer en sciences humaines et sociales. Sciences Po perd l’une de ses plus grandes figures et adresse ses condoléances à sa famille et à ses proches.

@desroches_tyler Mary Douglas, The World of Goods

Historians of economic thought and philosophers of econ: can you suggest key readings on the very concept of consumption?

Historic @THETSoc gathering in Chester tomorrow, wish me luck will try sneak in a tripod for some video capture

@Ivan_A_Boldyrev @itaisher This reminds me of what a crucial addition @ErasmusJPE has become over the years to the journal portfolio of our fields of interest, a bit like JEM was to E&P 20y ago, but leveraged way beyond that through #openaccess

@itaisher I'd check this special issue ejpe.org/journal

I am teaching an ethics and economics class, and I would like to include a discussion of ethical issues arising out of the covid-19 pandemic. Does anyone have any good paper recommendations?

@sdjohns Yes - the way it's become used now there is so little positive or even neutral technical meaning left in that word that perhaps it should be dropped from responsible public discourse altogether.

Visiting foreign workers aren’t ‘migrants’

@ErikAngner Endorsed! Nor do they keep to deadlines

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽New publication with @LonghiSi! 🐝Stung by Pension Reforms: The unequal impact of changes in state pension age @WASPI_Campaign @econromesh @DWP @HelenMiller_IFS @econoflove @Sevilla_Almu @ShellyJLundberg sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Extremely excited about this one: the first "core" economics course on remotestudentexchange.org where students from low- and middle-income countries can participate for free and receive a grade! "Microeconomic Theory" (BA level) with Dr. Marco Celentani at Universidad Carlos III

@tagesthemen @PeterRNeumann @KingsCollegeLon Congratulations to King's @PeterRNeumann for the most insightful strategic take on @Zabehulah_M33 cum suis in the round of evening news tonight

Der Westen habe sich in #Afghanistan zu lange "einer Illusion hingegeben", sagt Sicherheitsexperte @PeterRNeumann vom @KingsCollegeLon im Interview mit den #tagesthemen (red)

@OlgaStoddard It's fair to say though that by mid week we usually hardfork via kitchen whiteboard into various doodles of everybody's latest unilateral changes to agreed itineraries. Hayek lives!

@OlgaStoddard Like to think we use a mesh of shared calendars that in principle should keep various icals, outlooks and gcals in sync to appease divergent workplace needs (ok.. idiosyncratic preferences among the younger troops).

Fellow parents of younger kids, what calendar system do you use to keep track of kids schedules/activities etc? Something visible to all family members 🗓