Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
Professor of Political Economy at the Munk School at University of Toronto. Father, curmudgeon, left full back in a beer league. Works best when fed Polish and Austrian food.
Economics
64%
Business
15%
Wenn wir mehr Menschen zur Altenpflege verpflichten wollen, und damit die Geburtenrate automatisch noch weiter senken - denn der Berufseinstieg verzögert sich um ein Jahr - dann können wir das tun. Oder wir mustern alle 18jährigen Männer, die in Deutschland leben, mit oder ohne deutschen Pass.
RCV would work well. I don’t get the fascination with multi member districts. Anyone who has studied Japan knows that they bring out the worst kind of local patronage politics.
Kurioserweise können auch Menschen mit Hyperosmie Bettwanzen riechen, wie ich selbst festgestellt habe, aber natürlich niemals so gut wie ein Spürhund!
Bets on how SCOTUS will rule on Trump’s tariffs?
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Sep 24
Somehow the autism question is now about something that women do, when the only known causal association is something that men do - have kids late in life, with women who may or may not be much younger.
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Sep 19
Don’t worry, the baggy 1990s suits are back in style now! You can jump from rooftop to rooftop in those.
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Sep 8
share.google
No. The US did the basic research but preferred that a Dutch company holds the key tech over a Japanese company share.google/gLaZyhnMvdoY...
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Sep 7
ASML’s success is based on US patents applied by brilliant Dutch engineers, so not quite what you want to convey here
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Sep 7
Punk Rock only became bearable because American kids who had learned how to actually play their instruments in a different genre decided to play Punk for fun.
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Sep 1
Germany has 2x the population of California, China has… too hard to calculate in my head right now. Stunning.
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Aug 13
Exactly! When you a have a time series and at the end, it drops off like this, it’s good practice to wait and see
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Aug 13
If you look at the trend, it doesn’t look like statins were even a major factor. And how would they if they only reduce the absolute risk by a few percent? My money would be on people giving up smoking making the biggest difference
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Aug 11
Why the heck do I get so many cat pictures in “Discover.” I’m not a cat person.
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Aug 4
Group 1 consists of some who believe that it’s fine if everyone is very progressive because they’re fighting a battle, and others who think that academics are just a bit to the left of most voters and that it isn’t a problem. The latter have no idea what voters really think.
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The Dangerous Ones
@thedangerousones.com
· Mar 15
🚨Voice of America is has been eliminated
President Trump has signed an executive order dismantling the U.S. Agency for Global Media, ceasing operations of Voice of America (VOA) and other U.S.-funded media outlets.
This ends over 80 years of broadcasting unbiased news to global audiences. 🎙️
President Trump has signed an executive order dismantling the U.S. Agency for Global Media, ceasing operations of Voice of America (VOA) and other U.S.-funded media outlets.
This ends over 80 years of broadcasting unbiased news to global audiences. 🎙️
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Jul 13
Regressionsschichtbruchansatz
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Jun 28
@epsanet.bsky.social Excellent conference at Carlos III, but to whoever decided on the numbering of the rooms: the whole point of integers is that they’re consecutive in an agreed upon order
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Jun 24
Military Keynesianism! If only there were enough young Germans to make this work…
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Even America can’t do without Microsoft products, and they at least have the software industry to develop alternatives in principle. The uni forces them down our throats almost.
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Jun 20
Nothing that a carbon tax can’t solve
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Jun 12
“The Coming War with Japan” can now be had used for $1.60 on Amazon… things shall pass
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· May 26
… and that’s before they realize that they’d have to take a 30-40% pay cut
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· May 19
Chance verpasst: „Bundeswehr setzt auf neue Wunderwaffe gegen Putins Super-Rakete“ hätte noch mehr historische Resonanz gehabt 😆
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· May 10
I suspect this is driven by TikTok. I reset my feed twice a while ago and first I got alpaca clips, and then capybaras the second time. Why, I still don’t know…
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· May 7
Ok but why did it take until 2025? Two winters on the tarmac in Toronto aren’t great for a plane
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Apr 11
Das ist in den USA und Kanada auch völlig normal. Manchmal aus banalen Gründen wie „die Kommission konnte sich nicht entscheiden.“
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Apr 11
PostmodernBERT… purely intersubjective embeddings
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Apr 8
Ich saß mal in einem Theoretischen Seminar bei einer Zentralbank und dachte genau das: für jede/n hier neben mir gibt es eine/n der ganz weit weg vom Durchschnitt ist, aber in die falsche Richtung
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Apr 5
Und wenn das Ministerium jetzt ein Sonderprogramm auflegt, dann könnten ca. 2032 noch ein oder zwei neue Lehrstühle geschaffen werden, also zum Ende der ersten Amtszeit von Trump Jr…
Mark Manger
@markya.bsky.social
· Apr 4
Reminder that US imports are only ~13% of the global total and that this isn’t the end of the world unless you’re in the US (or right next door)