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Luca Rigotti
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Theoretical Economist at the University of Pittsburgh
https://sites.pitt.edu/~luca/
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bartlipman.bsky.social
This is horrifying.
econmarshall.bsky.social Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · 10d
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11d
Tiramisù doesn’t require baking, feeds a crowd and actually needs to be prepared in advance, making it a great contender for a Thanksgiving dessert. Cranberry, pumpkin and apple give this creamy no-bake classic a fall makeover with festive flavors.
These Tiramisù Are the Best Make-Ahead Thanksgiving Desserts
Cranberry, pumpkin and apple give the creamy no-bake classic a fall makeover with festive flavors.
nyti.ms
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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rosamundi.bsky.social
I see the Americans have decided to declare war on Italy.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11d
Tiramisù doesn’t require baking, feeds a crowd and actually needs to be prepared in advance, making it a great contender for a Thanksgiving dessert. Cranberry, pumpkin and apple give this creamy no-bake classic a fall makeover with festive flavors.
These Tiramisù Are the Best Make-Ahead Thanksgiving Desserts
Cranberry, pumpkin and apple give the creamy no-bake classic a fall makeover with festive flavors.
nyti.ms
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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tuftseconomics.bsky.social
#NEUDC2025 💰🏛️ Session on Taxation
Jiawei Lyu from University of Pittsburgh will present:
“The Costs of Affirmative Action: Evidence from a Male-Favoring Quota”
#TuftsUniversity
@jiaweilyu.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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leonardlloyd.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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tderyugina.bsky.social
The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
August 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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phastidio.net
Dirò una cosa assai poco originale: se i mercati, in particolare in questo momento quello obbligazionario, non gli si rivoltano contro di fronte all'assalto alla Fed, Trump andrà fino in fondo. Gli unici checks and balances per lui verranno (ove mai) dal mercato.
August 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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johncawley.bsky.social
If you'll be on the #EconJobMarket this coming year, you may want to join this webinar by @aereorg.bsky.social, titled, "Navigating Uncertain Waters: Advice for the Current Job Market," with Min Gong & @adrienneohler.bsky.social. 29 Sept 2025 @ 11am ET.
August 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As if Ph.D. level is a good thing
bbc.com/news/article...
OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’
GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.
bbc.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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yaleeconomics.bsky.social
Join us in congratulating Steven Berry (@steveberry.bsky.social), who was recently appointed the Sterling Professor of Economics—the highest academic honor a Yale professor can receive.

Berry joined Yale in 1988 and is the inaugural director of the
Yale Tobin Center: news.yale.edu/2025/07/22/b...
July 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Reminded me of my own ceremony, a few years back
June 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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filipecampante.bsky.social
Even the most hardened haters will have to admit that yesterday was awesome at the CWC (Messi + PSG loss). Again establishing the ancestral truth: Fifa sucks, but football is awesome, and always triumphs.
June 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Pitt Junior faculty rock!
June 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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andrewkosenko.bsky.social
Werner Von Braun would like a word.

Also, do the Manhattan Project.

Von Neumann, Fermi, Szilard, Wigner - and Einstein, whose letter got the ball rolling. To name just a few.

Or American mathematics: Courant, Kac, Lax, Wald...
dfeldman.org Sphexish Quine @dfeldman.org · May 30
Oh my god
Vance is so good: "The American Space Program, the first program to put a human being on the moon, was built by American citizens. This idea that American citizens don't have the talent to do great things, that you have to import a foreign class of servants, I just reject that."
May 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The description below, from this week's @adamprz.bsky.social Diary, strikes me as very plausible.
In somewhat stylized terms, what may be happening with the Trump regime goes as follows. There is a Leader (Duce, Führer, Vozdh) who demands absolute loyalty from his subordinates. The subordinates know that they will be rewarded for implementing the will of the Leader. They compete for his attention. Lines demarcating their authority do not matter: the head of HHS Department tries to catch Leader's attention by doing something that formally can be done only by DoE Department and if the Leader notices and likes this action, the head of the HHS jumps in his approval above the head of DoE. Sometimes the subordinates go farther than the Leader would want; sometimes they do something the Leader does not approve. Such mistakes, however, are not due to a lack of expertise, but only the uncertainty inherent in the impossibility of the Leader to fully articulate his will. Sometimes the Leader has to step in to adjudicate conflicts. Some of his underlings may be pushing tariffs while others may want free trade; some may be concerned about deficits while others believe that they will pay for themselves. Moreover, envy and jealousy cannot be avoided when the underlings compete for the Leader's favor. Mussolini claimed that resolving such conflicts took most of his time. Yet, whenever loyalty is the only criterion of performance, chaos must ensue. The only purpose of the subordinates is to please the Leader. Formal authority, consideration of material consequences, or compassion have no place in their competition.
May 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Italy: the country with the most colorful elections
May 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Be a theorist. At worst, your theorem is wrong and everyone thinks you're a moron... Still better than everyone discovering you're a fraudster and a cheat.
May 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Be a theorist. At worst, your theorem is wrong and everyone thinks you're a moron... Still better than everyone discovering you're a fraudster and a cheat.
May 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Ying and Yang?
May 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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yaleeconomics.bsky.social
Join us in congratulating Steven Berry on his election to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on a U.S. scientist or engineer!

Read the announcement here: tobin.yale.edu/news/250503/...
Steven Berry Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
tobin.yale.edu
May 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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reveconstudies.bsky.social
#REStud_Tour 2025 started today in the University of Padova @dsea-unipd.bsky.social .

Check out the excellent JMPs of this year's tourists!

economia.unipd.it/en/restud-to...
REStud Tour 2025
8-9 May 2025Barco Teatro, Via Orto Botanico 12, PaduaA unique event bringing together the brightest PhD students in Economics and Finance from top US universities. The tour will feature insightful res...
economia.unipd.it
May 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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jasonhartline.bsky.social
I'm looking for recent papers applying mechanism design to AI/ML. I'm most interested in tools from mechanism design that help solve problems in designing and evaluating AI systems. If you think it fits, please share!
May 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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andreamatranga.bsky.social
In the 1960s and '70s, The Worst People in the World (TM) didn't want to vaccinate Africans (etc) because they said it would lead to overpopulation. Then we did a bunch of research, and it turns out that reducing child mortality actually reduces population growth. 1/
May 2, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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johnrgallagher.bsky.social
I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it.

meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...
The mental tyranny of AI writing
An arduously long blog post
meresophistry.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
great thread
undercoverhist.bsky.social undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · Apr 25
1/n From the archive: is Econ graduate education at risk of training "savants idiots", 1990 edition

Fears that econ graduate training has become too technicized has led, once again, to educational debates, so the AEA launched a huuuuuge survey of grad education, under the leadership of Ann Krueger
April 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM