
Whenever @sama speaks, the antiAI coalition gets stronger. Today's weird analogy: Hey, meat computers are more inefficient to train than silicon ones! (which, on top of everything, is wrong)
David Hémous
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@davidhem
Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich. Growth / Climate Change / inequality / innovation

Whenever @sama speaks, the antiAI coalition gets stronger. Today's weird analogy: Hey, meat computers are more inefficient to train than silicon ones! (which, on top of everything, is wrong)







I stand corrected. It is four economic history Nobel Prizes in a row!!! (Bernanke 2022, Goldin 2023, Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson 2024, Mokyr 2025)

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.” #NobelPrize



"Ils sont contradictoires": pour Pierre Moscovici, les Français sont "prêts à faire un effort collectif" mais pas forcément individuel l.bfmtv.com/ClfH





Not having kids is not a remotely effective climate mitigation strategy





@CageJulia & @YanagizawaD awarded the 2025 Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics for their important contributions on political economy & the media, based on deep historical research in France, the USA, and Africa Full info ℹ️eeassoc.org/awards/yrjo-ja…






Labour market policies influence firms' innovation dynamics, as a UZH study shows. Higher minimum wages encourage automation, while rising wages for highly skilled workers slow it down: news.uzh.ch/en/articles/me… @econ_uzh @davidhem