Class cancelled because of the super typhoon! This is a chance to try out my new mic to record a lecture. 🤓 Stay safe!

Just wrapped up the Canadian Sociological Association’s 2025 Annual Conference~ the waterfront was beautiful!

I still have $10 of Skype credit damnit

New research article! 🎉 my work shows that, similar to how firms offshore profits and operations to avoid tax liabilities, firms also offshore emissions and avoid emissions liabilities by listing in cross-border jurisdictions that are distant from their home jurisdictions. doi.org/10.1002/csr....

Welcome to Hell cont’d

Welcome to hell

Trump’s inauguration will break tradition and will be held indoors due to cold weather.

Meanwhile, Yellen et al
slogging it out at Biden’s inauguration:

A student apparently snuck a shot of me in the middle of lecture. 🤓

Happy new year!

South Korea is not a serious country.

Merry Christmas!
Celebrating Christmas with a classic at an outdoor theatre 🎄

My doctoral students were kind enough to arrange a Christmas dinner and gift exchange! 🎄

Entrance exam at MIT in 1869.

Received my reviewer copy of Odd Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation. Written by two towering figures, the book is a captivating tale of elites, power struggles, and economic planning in some of China’s most tumultuous years.

Thanks to Jon Unger at the China Journal for the invite.

It was a pleasure meeting Professor Gay Seidman from Wisconsin-Madison. She gave an incredible talk about how democratization affects race-class hierarchies/inequalities in Brazil and South Africa in comparative perspective.

She also shared the funniest stories.

#socsky #econsky

Amid the chorus humming for AI, a beautiful counterpoint of a poem by Joseph Fasano that stingingly captures the tarnish of AI.

Nudge by Dick Thaler and a Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States (1961-2021) by Alan Blinder. Thaler’s is kind of an overview of Behavioral Econ with a sense of humor, and Blinder’s reads like an accessible narrative.

The latest from our work on networks of professional mobility among firms is out in print. We examine how firms are subject to attrition during seismic economic/political events*. 1/

*Another paper on structural predictors of attrition patterns was just accepted!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just wrapped up my doctoral-level Sociology and Advanced Quantitative Methods courses! I'm grateful the students in both courses took photos as commemorative memos, and even brought props for us to hold. They were very sweet, and we had a terrific semester!