Joshua Gans
joshgans.bsky.social
Joshua Gans
@joshgans.bsky.social

Professor at University of Toronto

Joshua Gans holds the Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Until 2011, he was an economics professor at Melbourne Business School in Australia. His research focuses on competition policy and intellectual property protection. He is the author of several textbooks and policy books, as well as numerous articles in economics journals. He operates two blogs: one on economic policy, and another on economics and parenting. .. more

Business 41%
Economics 37%

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

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Covid!

Here's Matthew Effect ... again meta ...

Acemoglu dominance. Look at those market shares. Now this is some serious power inequality going on.

Bayesian persuasion ...

Prediction machines. ...

And this for "large language model" (evidence of a singularity?) That blip in 2011 was this "Unknown authors 2011 Journal of Financial Economics Relevance: 0.484"
Went all meta on @paulgp.com 's new tool and looked to see what the trends in event studies were.

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I am not opposed to editors publishing in their own journals, but look at the Management Science publication count for David Simchi-Levi, who was EIC from 2019 to 2023.

YEAR. COUNT
1990 1
1992 1
2000 1
2019 2
2021 2
2022 10
2023 4
2024 1
2025 4

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