Nathan Lane

We’re hiring @ LSE ID We have *multiple* economist positions—assistant and associate professor—here at LSE International Development. Our economics group is expanding. We have exciting stuff planned. We’re keen on big picture economists. DMs open. aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

🚀Major upgrade to the GMD Stata package 🚀 The Global Macro Database (GMD) is the most comprehensive collection of macroeconomic statistics, with around 8,000 users. We are now excited to announce a major improvement to our Stata package: ssc install gmd gmd

I think "Why I Am Not A Conservative" is actually one of Hayek's most insightful essays. Long before Robin argued the right is defined by a defense of hierarchy, Hayek made a simmilar point in stressing how conservatism rests on the assertion that there are superior people...

Patrick Chung discusses his new book, 'Standardizing Empire: The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism' newbooksnetwork.com/standardizing-…

1. New paper out in the Journal of Development Economics! With Mariana Bernad and @juanpablorud we ask: do banks' voluntary climate pledges actually mean anything? Using survey data on 337 banks and ~5,000 firms across 33 emerging economies, we find that they do.🧵

Data we prepared for our recent @BrookingsInst teport identified fully 884 "announced" future data centers on tap. Get ready for more local permitting skirmishes! lnkd.in/e3tHEbmP @BrookingsMetro @straightedge @EconBerger @bencasselman @TheStalwart @ProducerCities

@MarkMuro1 @BrookingsInst @BrookingsMetro @EconBerger @bencasselman @TheStalwart @ProducerCities The work your doing here is so useful

Prof. Donald Knuth opened his new paper with "Shock! Shock!" Claude Opus 4.6 had just solved an open problem he'd been working on for weeks — a graph decomposition conjecture from The Art of Computer Programming. He named the paper "Claude's Cycles." 31 explorations. ~1 hour. Knuth read the output, wrote the formal proof, and closed with: "It seems I'll have to revise my opinions about generative AI one of these days." The man who wrote the bible of computer science just said that. In a paper named after an AI. Paper: cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/…

“The binding constraint is shifting from production to evaluation”, my favorite quote of the day.

How is this legal? Treason plus profit?

1. do nothing 2. win

California has reinvented feudalism from first principles wsj.com/economy/housin…

"...this is not going to be a one and done situation. There’s going to have to be follow-up attacks. This is a conflict that is likely to continue for some time."

Thrilled to have this essay out in @nybooks: I trace how the New Deal delivered universal electrification through public and cooperative institutions and examine the growing interest in expanding public power today Special thanks to @NCaplanBricker & her colleagues!

This is awesome, @AlanMCole. All of us federal budget nerds were screaming that DOGE would produce only minuscule savings, but only Alan was bold enough to profit (substantially) from this knowledge. Well done! wsj.com/finance/invest…

With increasing government stakes and pressure on private businesses, is the U.S. on the way to becoming the next China or Russia?! This provocative question opened a timely debate between renowned economists Nathaniel Lane of The London School of Economics and Aldo Musacchio of Brandeis University last evening. Navigating the state-as-shareholder dilemma with two of the field’s sharpest minds made for an incredibly insightful discussion. Whether you favor the market efficiency of the private sector or the strategic oversight of public investment, one thing is clear: these conversations are essential for shaping a robust economic future. A huge thank you to the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee and the Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs for providing the stage and intellectual space for this critical discussion on the future of industrial policy. #Economics #PublicPolicy #PoliticalEconomy #HaslamCollegeOfBusiness #HowardBakerCenter #UTKnoxville

extraordinary essay from a corporate lawyer who wanted to write anonymously: businesslawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archive… (h/t @arievanhoe )

And it really worked. US loans financed much of South Korea’s infrastructure and shift to heavy industry. As @philippbarteska @oliverwkim @straightedge @seung_econ show, US procurement played an important role in fueling the growth of chaebol like Hyundai papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Oliver Kim presenting his coauthored work on how US procurement policy in South Korea helped push export-led growth. A weird Marshall-plan-like equivalent.

jaw dropped at the sight of this picture in the excellent WaPo Anthropic story from the other day: " ... a book warehouse that was alleged to play a role in Anthropic’s Project Panama, its project to scan, digitize and destroy millions of books"

Incredible