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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · Jul 14

So Science Magazine recently asked this question:
"What one change to scientific policy or culture would substantially decrease incidents of scientific misconduct and/or unethical behavior?"

My very serious answer (which they—seemingly—did not consider serious enough to publish) was:

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 3h

A passing remark, with a nod to dark-humor gravitas: a few allegedly “serious” outfits underwrite peak performative idiocy, never gaudier than during Econ Nobel week (and yes, I assume the de-growthers booked the wake). 🎭🤡📣🍿⚰️

Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 4h

Absolut!

Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 5h

Since some communication after my previous post above suggests some folks did not know or don’t quite believe it, I had already publicly named Mokyr earlier (and many times) as a very plausible, very deserving winner; see, for instance: x.com/sbuhai/statu... (but didn't see it in this combination!)

Sebastian Buhai on X: "Other—not exhaustive and not immutable, obviously—sets of well deserving potential Econ Prize laureates for tomorrow or the near future (next to my favorites https://t.co/JPokf7HRTn): Dixit-Grossman-Helpman Kreps-Rubinstein Besley-Persson-Tabellini Camerer-Fehr-Rabin Galor-Mokyr" / X

Other—not exhaustive and not immutable, obviously—sets of well deserving potential Econ Prize laureates for tomorrow or the near future (next to my favorites https://t.co/JPokf7HRTn): Dixit-Grossman-Helpman Kreps-Rubinstein Besley-Persson-Tabellini Camerer-Fehr-Rabin Galor-Mokyr

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 5h

Setul complet de laureați, nici eu. 😉

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Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · 8h

🏆 L’administrateur, les professeurs et toute la communauté du Collège de France se réjouissent de l’attribution du prix #Nobel d’économie 2025 au Pr Philippe Aghion, titulaire de la chaire #Économie des institutions, de l’#innovation et de la croissance !
👉 https://tinyurl.com/4t8vkpfm
#Nobelprize

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 8h

Didn’t think he’d get it in 2025—Aghion & Howitt felt likelier—but Joël Mokyr is a terrific pick who MUST have won the Nobel at some point. Very creative to place them all together!
P.S. Only 2nd Nobel for Northwestern Econ but at least 2 more could be on the way in the next yrs.

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social · 9h

🎖️ The Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt!

Over the last two centuries the world has seen sustained economic growth. This year’s laureates explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress.

#PrizeinEconomicSciences #NobelPrize

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 1d

Santiago offers viewpoints by the dozen; assemble a quorum of aficionados and up we go, boots laced, spirits high. With lookouts in surplus, the market clears at sunrise on Sundays; this round, the Econs (with some business-school cousins in tow) set alarms before the city stirs.

Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 3d

Bravo, @NobelPrize laureates of 2025; yet the juicier drop lands Monday! :)

My wish:
Blundell-Manski (essential microeconometrics, broadly)
or
Bresnahan-Pakes-Porter (state-of-the-art EIO)
Long overdue in both cases!

My sneaky suspicion:
They'll lean the/ a macro way this year.

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Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · 3d

Note the wording.. Ms. Machado receives the prize for:
- promoting democratic rights
- struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition
- At a time when democracy is under threat
- where democracy is in retreat
- more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norm
www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en

Nobel Peace Center | Museum of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway

The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo is the museum of the Nobel Peace Prize. Experience our exhibitions, events and guided tours inspired by the ideas and work of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates.

www.nobelpeacecenter.org

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 3d

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 3d

My big regret: I haven't (& still can't) properly read his books in the original Hungarian, my mother's tongue, which I spoke perfectly until about age 5. I've read some of them in English translation instead, missing many intricacies. A lifelong frustration I carry daily...(2/2)

Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 3d

László Krasznahorkai's @NobelPrize was way long overdue. He could have won it for Sátántangó alone (100% with Sem-Sandberg: for a *debut* novel, that quality remains unsurpassed), not to mention later pearls like The Melancholy of Resistance or Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming.
(1/2)

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian novelist, for his “visionary oeuvre.”

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The award comes with prize money of almost $1.2 million.

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 5d

Sí: con vino, fluyo; sin vino, improviso. 😂

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Nature @nature.com · 6d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"

Stay tuned for more.

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 6d

Thrilled to start a long-term academic visit today at UC Chile’s Instituto de Economía: https://economia.uc.cl/
In Santiago/Chile/LatAm? Let’s connect: ideas on the table, wine (or pisco sours!) on the side. Bring your priors; we’ll update the posteriors & boost our networks' R²!

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Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · 7d

#Science #Mathématiques
🧮 « Entropie et combinatoire »
📌 Cours Pr Timothy Gowers, titulaire de la chaire Combinatoire
⏰ 13 octobre → 17 novembre 2025
👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/cours/entropie-et-combinatoire

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 7d

Acabamos de ver NUBE de Jose Vidal en el Teatro Municipal de Las Condes: nos encantó a todos, pero nuestra hija de 7 años (que hace danza moderna) quedó completamente cautivada. Pura poesía en movimiento! www.tmlascondes.cl/n...
#NUBE #DanzaContemporánea

Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 10d

And a delight it is, indeed!
(Also a timely nudge to @nobelprize.bsky.social Econ Committee: Pakes’s toolkit reshaped how we study markets; Bresnahan–Pakes–Porter as laureates in 10 days would fit the evidence. P.S. Long overdue Nobel for EIO!)
HT @paulaaureo.bsky.social on X:
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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 10d

Mi se șoptește că Păturică a ajuns ditai prof la Școala Națională de Studii Politice și Administrative, unde va preda „dezvoltare economică”. După ce-a dezvoltat ministere până le-au ieșit fulgii, urmează dezvoltarea studenților — cei scăpați nedezvoltați de Bulai & Pieleanu.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 11d

Straight up asking public universities to set up governing structures to violate the first amendment

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d

My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too

The humble em dash is being used as a tell that something is written by a large language model. But it’s James Shackell’s favourite piece of punctuation, and he’s not ready to lose it

www.theguardian.com

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The Economist @economist.com · 13d

“Stablecoins, like money-market funds, project security but can collapse under pressure,” argues Jean Tirole in a guest essay. The Nobel laureate explains why these digital tokens are riskier than promised

A Nobel laureate on why stablecoins may be nothing of the sort

Payments systems must be built on public infrastructure, not speculative tokens, writes Jean Tirole

econ.st

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 14d

De la subida por Parque Mahuida, entre bosque verde y montaña, a la bajada hacia Caleta La Reina para un almuerzo simple-perfecto de mariscos (¡con música chilena en vivo!): del mapudungún al chileno, hasta este gringo cacha el ritmo, po. #SantiagoDeChile