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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 1h

Rooftop solar output hits new record high on Australia’s main grid, putting more pressure on ageing coal generators even with surge of battery solar soakers.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 8h

Nobody Asked Me But™ dept:

How is it possible that Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds produced this incredible song and video several decades *before* Peaky Blinders existed?

(I see that Roy Trakin of Variety examined this very question: variety.com/2018/music/n... )

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand (Official Video)

YouTube video by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 1h

Always nailbiting!

3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 1h

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Australian bird of the year 2025 winner announcement – live

Follow live as we announce the winner of the 2025 Australian bird of the year

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Punchy @punchystream.bsky.social · 9h

modern philosophers have posited the hypothesis that "hips do not lie" which stands in contradiction to the previous commonplace notion that it is "hip to be square". of course, academia is uninterested in resolving this contradiction.

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 2h

✅️ Snow Crash. Thank Asherah or Enki or whoever that's over. Not sure what to expect re student responses. But just want to tell them that under no circumstances should any of them use anything in Neal Stephenson books as relationship or dating advice. <shudder>

Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 3h

Welcome, extra Australians!

It is definitely worth dropping in to SW Ontario for a swim in one of the Great Lakes.* Perhaps a few months from now, though, unless you're Tasmanian in which case jump on in any time.

* North ON for Superior, but may want to consider staying on it not in it.

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 4h

Was asked about Canada (not in the original, as I kept it to the top 10 destinations).

And yes you shouldn't read too much into one month, but...

www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Charts showing that in Australian short-term trips to the US wee down 10% in August 2024 on August 2024, while Canada was up 10%

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 4h

Was asked about Canada (not in the original, as I kept it to the top 10 destinations).

And yes you shouldn't read too much into one month, but...

www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h

Halloween candy prices are about to lay people OUT.

Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 14h

I was just discussing price increases in the US across a wide range of goods following T’s tariffs. Definitely feeling it at the grocery store.

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 3h

There's a particular sickness unique to the American mind that makes us believe roads, highways, and interstates don't need to turn a profit, but trains must.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 6h

Painful as a finance prof

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 13h

In which I analyze the new report of the Alberta Post-seocndary panel. It's mostly pretty good, though a couple of bits don't seem especially well thought-through.

That Alberta Post-Secondary Review, Again | HESA

Just before I headed out on a work/vacation trip (I’m in Costa Rica today), the Government of Alberta dropped the … Continued

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 4h

Quite predictable, I'd have said.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21h

"A collage full of nature 🌱🌷" from Gemma Matthews, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensArt

Textile artworks show in a grid of sixteen squares all reflecting different embroidered garden flowers and plants

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 23h

Gillian C. Hamilton, "The Decline of Apprenticeship in North America: Evidence from Montreal", Journal of Economic History 60 (3) (2000), 627–664.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

Beneath the snark, I’m actually looking for economics research on apprenticeships and informal knowledge transfer. Pointers anyone?

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

In the great series of economists reinventing psychology, I bring you today's episode: Vygotsky's zone of proximal development

"Moving the Goalposts" by Jeffrey C. Ely and Martin Szydlowski. We study information as an incentive device in a dynamic moral hazard framework. An agent works on a task of uncertain difficulty, modeled as the duration of required effort. The principal knows the task difficulty and provides information over time. The optimal mechanism features moving goalposts: an initial disclosure makes the agent sufficiently optimistic that the task is easy. If the task is indeed difficult, the agent is told this only after working long enough to put the difficult task within reach. The agent then completes the difficult task even though he never would have chosen to at the outset.

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 23h

Glad he is doing ok. Heard stories about goanna bites but really thought they were just stories. (Got nipped by one once as a kid and no issues, but apparently I was luckier than I realised.)

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David Schindler @david-schindler.de · 1d

If you are on the market this year, join us for advice! Looking forward to it!

EEA @eeanews.bsky.social · 1d

📢 #EJME virtual workshop II
Join @david-schindler.de
🗓️Thurs, Oct 16 @15:30 CEST
ℹ️ Pitching your paper, advice on behaviour, things to say during interviews, fly-outs & Negotiating offers, contracts PLUS exploding offers
Registration: bit.ly/42cS3gX
@eayeconomists.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 23h

Oh of course yeah.

Derrell Durrett @derrelldurrett.bsky.social · 1d

@pkrugman.bsky.social points out that he was insufficiently cynical about the Argentine bailout, because it's Bessent's hedge fund buddies that get made whole.

#EconSky

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Bailing out Bessent’s Buddies’ Bets on Argentina

Trump bails out hedge funds’ failed bets on Milei while his foreign aid cuts will kill millions of children

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 1d

#EconSky Two weeks from tomorrow, the Women in Economics Leadership Network (spearheaded by Janine Wilson at UC Davis) will host our annual virtual networking event! Please share with your students! It is open to ALL.

Register here: ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....

Pink and mauve flyer titled “Women in Economics Across the Nation.” It advertises a Zoom networking event for undergraduate economics students on Wednesday, October 29, with times listed as 5 PM PT, 6 PM MT, 7 PM CT, and 8 PM ET. The left side includes a QR code for registration. The right side describes that students can join alumni breakout rooms featuring speakers from the public sector, private sector, and graduate school, who will share career advice and experiences.

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 23h

A true classic, one that many econs have a story about.

Mine is I carried it from Canada to Australia and back on a break before comps and didn't open it once.

Random paper from RePEc @random-repec-paper.bsky.social · 1d

Microeconomic Theory
by Mas-Colell, Andreu & Whinston, Michael D. & Green, Jerry R. (1995)

IDEAS/RePEc link

to RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780195102680

ideas.repec.org

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

5 Immigrants To America Won 2024 And 2025 Nobel Prize In Economics www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

5 Immigrants To America Won 2024 And 2025 Nobel Prize In Economics

Five immigrants to America have been awarded the Nobel prize in economics in 2024 and 2025; four of the five former international students.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine if a woman president went off about every picture of herself she didn’t like. “Hysterical.” “Emotional.” “PMSing.” “Petty bitch.”

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Alexander Wulfers @alexanderwulfers.com · 2d

"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...

LIVE: Nobel Prize in economics winner Joel Mokyr speaks

YouTube video by Reuters

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 1d

People affected by responses to Trump tariffs: "innocent bystanders" whose right to earn a living is being imperilled unfairly by Canadians.

People affected by Trump tariffs: umm, well, err ... they probably have bruised feelings but should get over it.

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 2d

For crying out loud, "bruised feelings"?

Not an attempted defense against Trump declaring an "economic war"?

And US needs to declare to "travelers around the world that it is open to business" - but it is simply not. Tourism businesses might like to believe theor govt is on their side, but nope.

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Loren King @lorenking.org · 1d

"if Mokyr’s work is right, then we aren’t going to have a strong economy if we let our colleges and universities go to seed."

I've long thought that related economic work on agglomeration and dynamic information externalities was really at root about the critical role of universities in innovation.

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