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John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · 14h

Does existence value exist?

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 17h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“How is this economics?”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

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John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · 15h

How about teaching data analysis and visualization instead?

John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · 15h

When the universities start teaching the learning shortcuts

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John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · 15h

When the universities start teaching the learning shortcuts

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · 2d

The review invitation had no deadline. I accepted it and the next email says: "Please try your best to complete your review by 03-Oct-2025." So, today is a week later and the tone of the automatic email message has changed.

I won't referee for this journal again.

John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · 2d

To a journal editor:

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John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · 2d

To a journal editor:

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 9d

Less Than Two Weeks Left! Submit Your Abstract for SBCA 2026 Annual Conference by October 15

Conference Dates: March 12–13, 2026

Location: George Washington University Student Center, Washington, D.C.

Get Started: Submit Your Abstract Now At buff.ly/0UOfDdw

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John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · 14d

Pathbreaking visionaries

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · 15d

Apologies, here are the two links again:

Submit your abstract: sbca.mymeetingsavvy.net/login
Call for abstracts: www.benefitcostanalysis.org/annual-confe...

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 16d

✨New Article ✨
In a new open access article, Tanga M. Mohr and John C. Whitehead (@johnwhitehead81.bsky.social) use attribute non-attendance (ANA) models to test for differences in discrete choice expiriments with real and hypothetical payoffs

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Boo!torious MIZ @screechysaywha.bsky.social · 22d

Come on bro, this is just undignified.

A guy who would never have tolerated this shit when he was winning a zillion championships making an ass of himself.

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John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · 27d

You should read this for sure.

Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 27d

All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

Fraud and cover-up

richardtol.substack.com

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John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · 29d

What’s up with Saban’s hair today?

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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · Sep 9

The big story here is of an agency of dedicated statisticians and public servants working tirelessly to improve economic data in a climate of budgetary cuts to data collection. They have been very innovative in meeting that mandate. But we should also just fund our economic infrastructure.

Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · Sep 9

Important to remember that thanks to the dedicated public servants at BLS, employment estimates have become MORE accurate over time

And the final version of the preliminary revision reported today will probably be smaller when it is incorporated early next year

Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi.bsky.social · Sep 9

The preliminary benchmark revision of -911K amounts to -0.6% to March 2025 payroll employment. Combined with 2-month revisions, recent total revisions are big but hardly unprecedented, & smoothed over the business cycle the payroll survey has gotten more accurate over time.

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John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · Sep 9

The reply was in the letter to the editor, finally got it.

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John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · Sep 9

That link is broke

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis @sbcasociety.bsky.social · Sep 9

We are now accepting proposals for the 2026 Annual Conference scheduled for March 12-13, 2026, at the George Washington University Student Center in Washington, D.C. This is your opportunity to showcase your research, engage with peers and contribute to the evolving field of benefit-cost analysis.