Sérgio Pinto
stpinto.bsky.social
Sérgio Pinto
@stpinto.bsky.social
Labour Economist @ OECD | PhD, University of Maryland | Interested in inequality, labour econ, subjective well-being, IFFs | Views are my own, not my employer's | He/him

https://sites.google.com/view/sergiopinto
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Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)

The grad is from China

Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"

Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package

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As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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to be clear, when pundits at the NY Times complain that "women ruined the workplace," they mean:

women gained enough agency and economic power to say NO to sexual extortion from men like Summers

women got uppity, started to think they were people; that's the "collapse of civilization" they deplore
November 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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I don’t have much hope that the economics discipline is willing and able to reform itself from the inside but here’s a pretty damn freaking obvious place to start.
Epstein Bantered Regularly With Larry Summers
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Grad Students: The Larry Summers news should shed any shred of imposter syndrome you've felt in academia. Clearly, academics* can be far from perfect (at everything from spelling to relationships to human decency) and still make it all the way to the top of ivory tower.
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
É incrível que, apesar disto, a narrativa perpetuada continue a ser a do peso excessivo do Estado na economia
Portugal é um dos países europeus com menor peso do Estado na economia e, na última década, foi um dos países que mais reduziu a despesa pública em % do PIB. A quebra de qualidade dos serviços públicos só pode surpreender quem não conhecer estes dados.
October 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Biggest terrorist attack on journalists since Charlie Hebdo. I'm sure everyone will be covering it
September 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Don't miss tomorrow's event with @thomaspiketty.bsky.social on global #inequality including preliminary results from the #GlobalJusticeProject.

📍In-person and online public event

🎟️ Registration www.lse.ac.uk/events/globa...
@lsepress.bsky.social
Thomas Piketty on global inequality | LSE Events
3.30pm Fri 19 Sept | Thomas Piketty | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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This is happening right now.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
May 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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It is crisis for the West that agreeing with this Israeli newspaper headline can get you blacklisted, fired,
arrested, and deported.
April 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Borrower were more likely to become homeowners after their student loan debt was cancelled

new research from @edinilaj.bsky.social @laurabmw.bsky.social Fouzia Landry Pierce @stpinto.bsky.social @econmarshall.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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New working paper:

"The Balance of Power in Franchising,"
joint with @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, Pete Norlander, @stpinto.bsky.social, and newly-minted econ RA Blake Eliason.

marshallsteinbaum.org/wp-content/u...

#econsky /1
December 3, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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Got AEA & ASSA emails this morning abt hotel workers striking in SF?

Want to figure out what it means & what your options are?

See this analysis @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & me, & our call to support 3 small ASSA policy changes
#EconSky
aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...
Hotel workers' strike and the 2025 ASSA annual meeting - Aaron Sojourner
By Hannah Archambault, Jennifer Cohen, and Aaron Sojourner   Are you planning to attend the 2025 ASSA meetings in San Francisco? If so, then you are planning to attend events at a hotel where the empl...
aaronsojourner.org
December 2, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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Working in what sense?

In supporting the goals of administrations to silence protestors.
November 25, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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For anyone who isn't yet aware of the problems with her "data-driven" approach to decision-making, I'd recommend reading more about the damage she's done with her research (and her op-eds) on HIV.
www.cgdev.org/blog/how-eco...
November 13, 2024 at 5:02 PM