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Anson Au, PhD
@ansonau.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University 🇭🇰 | digitalization, inequality, networks, firms & markets
www.ansonau.net
Class cancelled because of the super typhoon! This is a chance to try out my new mic to record a lecture. 🤓 Stay safe!
September 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Just wrapped up the Canadian Sociological Association’s 2025 Annual Conference~ the waterfront was beautiful!
July 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I still have $10 of Skype credit damnit
February 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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....
February 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Welcome to Hell cont’d
February 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Welcome to hell
January 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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:
January 19, 2025 at 4:27 AM
A student apparently snuck a shot of me in the middle of lecture. 🤓
January 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Happy new year!
January 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
South Korea is not a serious country.
December 27, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Merry Christmas!
Celebrating Christmas with a classic at an outdoor theatre 🎄
December 25, 2024 at 3:53 PM
My doctoral students were kind enough to arrange a Christmas dinner and gift exchange! 🎄
December 21, 2024 at 1:35 AM
Entrance exam at MIT in 1869.
December 20, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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.
December 13, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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
December 9, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Amid the chorus humming for AI, a beautiful counterpoint of a poem by Joseph Fasano that stingingly captures the tarnish of AI.
December 5, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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.
December 3, 2024 at 6:46 AM
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...
December 1, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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!
December 1, 2024 at 2:10 AM