Siddhartha Bhasker

I am serializing my novel on stck. It is fictional story of schizophrenia based on my illness and recovery. Please follow. A FISH ON A HOOK siddharthab.stck.me/story/55488/A-… via @stck_me

Supravat Sarkar: Proof of Miyanishi's conjecture on endomorphisms of varieties arxiv.org/abs/2602.16168 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16168 arxiv.org/html/2602.16168

Andrew Ng released an “Agentic Reviewer” for research papers. It just hit near human-level agreement after training on real ICLR 2025 reviews. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 Paper review is slow. Each cycle takes around six months. One student saw six rejections over three years. Iteration speed, not ideas, became the bottleneck. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 The system learns from real conference feedback. It reads your paper, then searches arXiv for related work. The flow is simple: Analyze claims and structure Ground comments in published research Produce structured reviewer-style feedback It works best in fields with open literature. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 Human-to-human review correlation sits at 0.41. AI-to-human correlation reaches 0.42. That is near reviewer agreement today.

Economics for Inclusive Prosperity is a network of economists - they have a new podcast. The first episode is out - listen to the always incisive Dani Rodrik and Suresh Nadu talk about alternatives to failed neoliberalism and economic nationalism More to come going forward - so do subscribe! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eco…

This @MarkusEconomist 'video interview' with Keynes about the economics of AI is pretty wild. youtube.com/watch?v=kbUcXp…

My new course at Stanford GSB, Energy Finance (Fin 338), looks at energy the way investors do: capital structure, risk/return, incentives. Which projects make financial sense and why? I'm sharing the big ideas publicly here if you want to follow along 👉theenergybalancesheet.com

Migration from poor to rich countries leads to massive income gains for migrants + remittances back home. But isn't there a trade-off here with long-run growth in the country of origin? This new @AEAjournals paper might be the best causal evidence we have, & suggests not

This paper by @srajagopalan , along with Devesh Kapur’s well-known paper ‘Why Does the Indian State Both Fail and Succeed?’, remains among the best works for understanding the policy problems that confront India. (1/4)

PhD Students - Which journal will accept your paper? Find out using in 3 simple steps. 1. Go to reivew-it.ai 2. Upload your paper 3. Review-it will suggest 10 most relevant journals. These journals are likely to accept your paper.

As Director of the @BeckerFriedman Institute for Economics and a longtime friend and admirer of Gary Becker, I loved @PabloPenaMunoz new book, "Human Capital for Humans." It's a very accessible introduction to Becker's ideas on parenting, health, marriage, and more. Gary had such deep insights into so many of life's most important facets, and Pablo captured them beautifully in this book. A must-read for econ enthusiasts! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

This extremely Hayekian passage by Ken Arrow on the economic calculation problem is quite interesting: "Production and consumption decisions are based on the present and the future. Information about future goods includes their prices. But not all future markets exist. One must confront the absence of such markets. What does this imply for the rest of the system, and what are the reasons for their nonexistence? The information required by the optimizer is not provided by the existing market; therefore, the optimizer must replace the market-based agreements to buy and sell under certain conditions with expectations. But the optimizer does not know the future, so the absence of future markets means that the optimizer faces a problem of uncertainty. It is necessary to examine more carefully the fact that inference about the future is necessarily uncertain, and that most decision-makers dislike risk. Since information is a product that does not satisfy all neoclassical standards, it is not surprising that the government plays a fundamental role in the process. In a world of uncertainty, the efficiency of firms includes not only technological efficiency but also efficiency in forecasting. The predominant role of internal financing and the particular importance of the entrepreneurial aspect in corporate decision-making are clearly connected to the different levels of access to information about the firm" SOURCE: ARROW, Kenneth. Limited Knowledge and Economic Analysis. AER, 1974. Link: jstor.org/stable/1814877 #Economía #Economics #Econtwitter

PhD Students - Which journal will accept your paper? Find out using in 3 simple steps. 1. Go to reivew-it.ai 2. Upload your paper 3. Review-it will suggest 10 most relevant journals. These journals are likely to accept your paper.

daily reminder that you can watch one of the greatest films ever made on youTube youtube.com/watch?v=gAKP4g…

Topics related to India that Nobel laureates have studied: Mokyr: - High barriers to entry into the “market for ideas” in India during the Industrial Revolution Aghion: - Effects of dismantling License Raj - Why Indian firms rarely grow large - India’s service-led growth

With the 2025 Nobel for growth & innovation, Aghion & Howitt (1997) is foundational but dense. A more accessible intro is The Power of Creative Destruction (Aghion, Antonin & Bunel; 2021), on how innovation and dynamism may fuel economic prosperity, but also social dislocation.

Very happy to be able share the polling-level dataset on Indian elections 2009, 2014, 2019 that we have been working on for more than a decade. Both the data and the data descriptor in @ScientificData are open access. @p_gupta93 @UniOslo_SVfak

How do you convince the most and least skilled people to team up together in organizations? And why would you want to do something like that in the first place? Answer in our paper forthcoming in European Economic Review and in this thread. (1/12)

I’ve started an ongoing project to collect all the datasets which economists can use, all in one place, organized by topic. Started with 50, further suggestions are extremely welcome. It will grow considerably.

🚨New Publication Alert🚨 India’s credit market is expanding but gaps persist. @CedaAshoka finds: 🏦Share of households with bank loan up from 7% to 24% (2019) 📉Dalit, Adivasi & Muslim households get <20% of credit Read: ceda.ashoka.edu.in/trends-in-borr…

Maximum Likelihood seems like such a natural idea, but it has historically been highly controversial, with an epic and turbulent history with numerous assaults on the idea, culminating in a beautiful and complicated theory. A highly entertaining read:

"Economics of transformative AI” summer course wrapped up just over a week ago. Here are the slide-decks from the course: docs.google.com/document/d/1hS… Most of the slides are from the (inimitable) @pawtrammell, some from me, and some from our great guest lecturers (1/2)