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Alexander Wulfers @alexanderwulfers.com · 13h

"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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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 15h

No, this was in June. EHA is typically in September.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 16h

Four if you count Bernanke.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 16h

Though I always hoped he'd get a Nobel prize, I did not think it would happen; it's been awarded for history or history-adjacent work for four years in a row now! The world can certainly use his powerful message on the importance of scientific knowledge. And academia can use more people like Joel.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 16h

Once you become a Joel student, you never stop being one. Just last week he wrote to ask about my working papers and book plans (read: "I haven't seen anything new from you lately, get off your ass already"). But also to keep tabs on family, rage about global politics, and dish out life advice.

Premonitorily sailing the Stockholm archipelago in 2015.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 16h

I am one of Joel's dozens and dozens of doctoral students. In 2011 about 60 of us got together at a conference to celebrate his career. Sure enough, 13 years later we're planning another, with another 25 or so students he trained since. Here Charlie Calomiris reviews one of Joel's commandments.

Charlie Calomiris presenting Joel's 10 commandments.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 16h

Elated at Joel Mokyr's Nobel Prize! You can find numerous accounts -now multiplying by the minute- of his scholarly contributions. Today I want to celebrate the man and the mentor.

Joel Mokyr at the 2011 conference in his honour at Northwestern.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 6d

This is truth.

Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 7d

Also known as the Argentine kryptonite tick.

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UBC Economics @ubcvse.bsky.social · 10d

Meet the Vancouver School of Economics’ 2025/26 PhD job market candidates! View their profiles here: economics.ubc.ca/people/phd-j... @plbeauregard.bsky.social

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Guido Alfani @guidoalfani.bsky.social · 10d

Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 14d

We offer teaching assistantships, and a few (very competitive) scholarships. The exchange rate is your friend right now as well (but no guarantees).

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 17d

The political success of “photo radar does not reduce speed and is a cash grab” tells you all you need to know about the median voter.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 17d

More ECON 101 content generated in real time!

Is this possibly a second best scenario though? US agricultural subsidies are incredibly distortionary, so kiboshing the sector, especially the large conglomerate bits, is not necessarily efficiency-reducing. An unorthodox way of doing it, to be sure.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 19d

Zotero 7 rocks. That's the skeet.

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 21d

Gilles Postel-Vinay et Jean-Laurent Rosenthal - A Capital’s Capital

Two Hundred Years of Wealth and Inequality in Paris

À paraître en février aux Princeton UP

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 21d

The first lesson of ECON 101 is to never assume people are stupid. I’ll let you take it from there.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 21d

Excellent material for my next ECON 101 problem set.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 21d

Gasp! It's almost as if, God forbid, the market can address healthcare shortages!

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

N.W.T.'s name-your-price initiative for doctors has filled most shifts at Yellowknife ER | CBC News

The Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority says nearly all its shifts at Stanton Territorial Hospital's emergency department are now filled.

www.cbc.ca

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 22d

"large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty".

LLMs getting ever closer to human behavior.

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 25d

Endogeneity at work. If Democratic leadership keeps their current tack on social issues, next time it will be 30-70.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 25d

And it is this disconnect with their base that has cost the Democratic Party dearly in recent elections.

Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 25d

Rich suburban elites are an infinitesimal sliver of the Democratic support base. The big vote mass comes from the unions, which have occasionally been welcoming of immigrants, but traditionally strongly nativist.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 26d

America is strongly nativist regardless of political stripes. Democrats are the party of “immigrants take our jobs”; Republicans are the party of “immigrants abuse our welfare system and rape our women”.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 27d

Reminds me of when we read the correspondence between the Fugger banking family principals and their agents throughout the Habsburg empire. Five lines about business, and two pages about fine wines and hunting dogs.

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