Joy Buchanan
@joybuchanan.bsky.social
Economics faculty at Samford, economistwritingeveryday.com, most research falls under Experimental Econ and recently A.I.
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Really grateful to @aeacswep.bsky.social for organising a mentoring workshop ahead of #SEA2025
Thank you so much for the opportunity and building a community of early career economists! Highly recommend checking CSWEP events
Thank you so much for the opportunity and building a community of early career economists! Highly recommend checking CSWEP events
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Really grateful to @aeacswep.bsky.social for organising a mentoring workshop ahead of #SEA2025
Thank you so much for the opportunity and building a community of early career economists! Highly recommend checking CSWEP events
Thank you so much for the opportunity and building a community of early career economists! Highly recommend checking CSWEP events
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Catching up on AI pieces from the past couple of weeks.
Recommendations:
1. End Stage Enshittification awardsforgoodboys.substack.com/p/end-stage-...
2. AI Psychosis investigation from A More Perfect Union www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGk...
3. Open AI compute costs www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Recommendations:
1. End Stage Enshittification awardsforgoodboys.substack.com/p/end-stage-...
2. AI Psychosis investigation from A More Perfect Union www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGk...
3. Open AI compute costs www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
End Stage Enshittification: Poop AI is Here
Chat GPT, why is my stool loose?
awardsforgoodboys.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Catching up on AI pieces from the past couple of weeks.
Recommendations:
1. End Stage Enshittification awardsforgoodboys.substack.com/p/end-stage-...
2. AI Psychosis investigation from A More Perfect Union www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGk...
3. Open AI compute costs www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Recommendations:
1. End Stage Enshittification awardsforgoodboys.substack.com/p/end-stage-...
2. AI Psychosis investigation from A More Perfect Union www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGk...
3. Open AI compute costs www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
@zacharybartsch.bsky.social wrote an article for econ profs: economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/09/19/w...
What’s the Best Major to Prepare for Law School?
First, Pre-law literally has the word ‘law’ in the name and is marketed as preparation for law school. However, it is the undergraduate major associated with the lowest paid lawyers. For that matte…
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September 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
@zacharybartsch.bsky.social wrote an article for econ profs: economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/09/19/w...
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#Econsky check the Economics Department at the University of Arkansas is hiring two open-rank Economics professors, including an opening in public economics and public policy.
Public Economics/Public Policy:
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Macroeconomics:
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Public Economics/Public Policy:
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Macroeconomics:
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September 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
#Econsky check the Economics Department at the University of Arkansas is hiring two open-rank Economics professors, including an opening in public economics and public policy.
Public Economics/Public Policy:
lnkd.in/eQTEgPM9
Macroeconomics:
lnkd.in/ewxxNSh8
Public Economics/Public Policy:
lnkd.in/eQTEgPM9
Macroeconomics:
lnkd.in/ewxxNSh8
For friends who teach statistics economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/09/06/t...
Teaching Business Statistics Graphs with Chart Crimes
Many people take a basic statistics course in college. Those course usually include an overview of standard graphs and best practices for visualizing data. To keep that section from getting boring …
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September 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
For friends who teach statistics economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/09/06/t...
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It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4
August 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4
Top posts from our blog so far in 2025 @mikemakowsky.bsky.social economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/08/09/t...
Top EWED Posts of 2025
These are notable posts from 2025, roughly presented in descending order, starting with the post that got the most views. Is there a competitive threat to the NBA? Mike Makowsky wrote, “… le…
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August 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Top posts from our blog so far in 2025 @mikemakowsky.bsky.social economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/08/09/t...
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"Analyses have also found that some 60% of Google searches are now 'zero-click,' ending without the user visiting a single link."
Google has a new button. It might destroy the web as you know it. Experts say the new “AI Mode” is an asteroid aimed at the heart of the internet, one that could decimate millions of websites. It seems this chapter of online history is over. Here’s what comes next: www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Is Google about to destroy the web?
Google says adding more AI to its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites. One thing is clear: this era of online history is closing.
www.bbc.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"Analyses have also found that some 60% of Google searches are now 'zero-click,' ending without the user visiting a single link."
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A few years ago, I went to Panama to see the "sterile fly barrier" that keeps a flesh-eating parasite out of the U.S.
It's one of the wildest things I've ever written about it...
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
It's one of the wildest things I've ever written about it...
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease
www.theatlantic.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A few years ago, I went to Panama to see the "sterile fly barrier" that keeps a flesh-eating parasite out of the U.S.
It's one of the wildest things I've ever written about it...
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
It's one of the wildest things I've ever written about it...
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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At the library in Telluride, Colorado
May 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
At the library in Telluride, Colorado
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a substantial part of Middlemarch is about Dorothea's realization that the man she has married in the belief that he is a genius through his 'Key to All Mythologies' has wasted his life on a futile quest because he doesn't read German and is entirely unaware of modern scholarly work.
"All myths are at their core the same myth" is one of those things that keeps popping up across scholars — the Germans had been at it off and on for a while before Campbell — and it almost always requires a rather procrustean approach to the stories.
this is where I am obliged to grumpily point out that very few myths actually look like this, and Campbell was an extremely sloppy scholar with a dash of anti-semitism, but the idea really appealed to Hollywood screenwriters.
May 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
a substantial part of Middlemarch is about Dorothea's realization that the man she has married in the belief that he is a genius through his 'Key to All Mythologies' has wasted his life on a futile quest because he doesn't read German and is entirely unaware of modern scholarly work.
If you live near Arlington, VA, come out and hear about my new experiment on Friday May 2 ices.gmu.edu/events/16497
ICES Seminar in Experimental Economics and Game Theory
Friday, May 2, 2025 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
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April 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you live near Arlington, VA, come out and hear about my new experiment on Friday May 2 ices.gmu.edu/events/16497
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The April 2025 JEEA issue is very special: it contains the first papers that have gone through our Data Replication Policy. @jeeanews.bsky.social
I'm honored to present the April 2025 issue of the JEEA - featuring 10 outstanding papers. @jeeanews.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...
April 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The April 2025 JEEA issue is very special: it contains the first papers that have gone through our Data Replication Policy. @jeeanews.bsky.social
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@theatlantic.com’s writers and editors are on Bluesky. Follow us for ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y
April 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
@theatlantic.com’s writers and editors are on Bluesky. Follow us for ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y
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A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...
Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years
A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.
www.wired.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...
Maybe that would have kept them from going bankrupt.
Never a shirt in H&M that says “Bloomington, Indiana” what’s up with that?
April 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Maybe that would have kept them from going bankrupt.
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I've been posting about shutdowns and rippling "severe" supply chain effects theoretically -- here's a more practical view which is in line with that.
The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*
April 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I've been posting about shutdowns and rippling "severe" supply chain effects theoretically -- here's a more practical view which is in line with that.
Today is evidence that the principles are simple and sound. It took me about a year of studying economics seriously to realize that we already know what makes countries rich. At first, I thought if I learned more math I could discover a secret.
April 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Today is evidence that the principles are simple and sound. It took me about a year of studying economics seriously to realize that we already know what makes countries rich. At first, I thought if I learned more math I could discover a secret.
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People LOVED their factory jobs back in the 60s / 70s.
That's why there were so many songs about how they wanted to stay on the production line for all time and never, ever leave their hometown.
That's why there were so many songs about how they wanted to stay on the production line for all time and never, ever leave their hometown.
April 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
People LOVED their factory jobs back in the 60s / 70s.
That's why there were so many songs about how they wanted to stay on the production line for all time and never, ever leave their hometown.
That's why there were so many songs about how they wanted to stay on the production line for all time and never, ever leave their hometown.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.23229 "Citegeist" is a great title.
Citegeist: Automated Generation of Related Work Analysis on the arXiv Corpus
Large Language Models provide significant new opportunities for the generation of high-quality written works. However, their employment in the research community is inhibited by their tendency to hall...
arxiv.org
April 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
arxiv.org/abs/2503.23229 "Citegeist" is a great title.
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One way to think about the current moment is an ideological struggle over whether there are such things as public goods
The goal of a business is to make money. The goal of a government is to serve the people. They’re not interchangeable.
Mail delivery. Real estate. Foreign aid grants. The Trump administration is moving to privatize a sweeping number of government functions and assets — a long-standing Republican goal that’s being catalyzed by billionaire Elon Musk.
March 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
One way to think about the current moment is an ideological struggle over whether there are such things as public goods
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Special Issue of JEBO in honor of Gary Charness. Deadline submission. April 1st. More Info: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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March 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Special Issue of JEBO in honor of Gary Charness. Deadline submission. April 1st. More Info: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...