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Richard S. J. Tol is a professor of economics at the University of Sussex. He is also professor of the… more

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Trump: I never thought we'd go into every city and make them safe. Now it's like a passion for me and it's a passion for the people behind me.
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Economics is what economists do
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Workplace romances between managers and subordinates boost earnings (+6 percent) but raise turnover and breakups cut pay (–18 percent), from David C. Macdonald, Jerry Montonen, and Emily E. Nix www.nber.org/papers/w34346
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Workplace romances between managers and subordinates boost earnings (+6 percent) but raise turnover and breakups cut pay (–18 percent), from David C. Macdonald, Jerry Montonen, and Emily E. Nix www.nber.org/papers/w34346
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Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious
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Bessent: "All I hear from the Europeans is that Putin is coming to Warsaw. There are very few things in life I am sure about. I am sure he's not coming to Boston."
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We are hosting Replication Games at the 95th Meeting of the Southern Economics Association on Friday November 21st, 2025. This is a new collaboration with the SEA!

Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
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We are hosting this year's MAER-Net Colloquium on Friday and Saturday. The program and more information are available here: www.maer-net.org/2025-ottawa

Plenary sessions (with Andrew Gelman, Shinichi Nakagawa and others) and some parallel sessions will be live-streamed for free
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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Alistair Munro, Aaron Sojourner

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📢 Out now in the 🍁November 2025 issue🍁 of #JAERE! 📢
"Temperature and Mental Health: Evidence from Helpline Calls" by Benedikt Janzen ( @benjanz.bsky.social ).
Read it here: buff.ly/I8JFR1b
📈📉 #Econsky
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“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Iikka Korhonen, Dominique Meurs , and 3 more

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🚨 We economists at @crestumr.bsky.social IPParis are hiring🚨

We have 3 positions:
1 assistant prof in econometrics (ENSAE
1 assistant prof in Digital Economics and IO (Telecom)
1 assistant or associate, all fields (Polytechnique)

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Please circulate! #econsky
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The Kremlin is upset about their boy’s Time cover photo.
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🚨Econ Academic Job Alert🚨

UCalgary econ is posting for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Industrial Organization or Regulatory Economics

Join us! #econsky

careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1691840...
Assistant or Associate Professor in Industrial Organization or Regulatory Economics in Calgary, ...
Assistant or Associate Professor in Industrial Organization or Regulatory Economics in Calgary, ...
careers.ucalgary.ca
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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Kim L. Scheppele, Elizabeth Saunders , and 5 more

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Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Jan W. Mueller, Will Jennings , and 8 more

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Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."
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Large Russian enterprises are switching to three- and four-day work weeks, Russian media outlets report.

◾️ Uralvagonzavod - one of the world’s leading manufacturers of armored vehicles (including T-72 tanks) and Russia’s largest producer of freight railcars - is now operating below full capacity.
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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch , and 26 more

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EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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by Richard S.J. Tol

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Every day is a holy day to somebody.
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On top of everything else, you want editors to take the religious holidays of authors into account?

It's Yet Another Noodle Eve on the Pastafarian calendar today ...
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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Stephen P. Jenkins, Valerie Mueller , and 2 more

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🚨 2-Year Postdocs in Dev Econ at Uni Copenhagen 🚨

Come work on some exciting experimental projects😀!

Dedicated time for your own research.

Reach out to hear more!

** PLEASE REPOST **🙏

Application deadline 🗓️: Nov 11

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#EconSky
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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 2d
I'm starting to explore {simDAG}, a nifty #rstats package that has a nice API for specifying DAGs and then simulating data from them: robindenz1.github.io/simDAG/
Simulate Data from a DAG and Associated Node Information
Simulate complex data from a given directed acyclic graph and information about each individual node. Root nodes are simply sampled from the specified distribution. Child Nodes are simulated according...
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China solar stocks rise on potential capacity controls reut.rs/4o8880t
China solar stocks rise on potential capacity controls
Chinese solar stocks soared on Tuesday as state media reported that authorities were planning to strengthen controls on solar production capacity, as the industry faces a glut of supply that has driven prices unsustainably low.
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan — Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Daniel S. Goldberg, Silvia Secchi , and 1 more

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The Department of Environmental Studies at CU-Boulder is searching for a new Assistant Professor in the area of energy and environmental policy, with an emphasis on sustainability and decarbonization. #EnergySky

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies
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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Rebecca Solnit, Brendan Nyhan , and 15 more

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Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay
Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.
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No serious person or organisation should remain on X and none should buy a Tesla either.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d
Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins
Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel
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by Richard S.J. Tol

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We should sue Soros for back pay.

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Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a "delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.
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they'd have to do another Debreu
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I know, but that book is not really their contribution, more a masterful pulling together of other people's work.
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level with Leiden: Mokyr & van der Waals

population about the same 144 v 127K
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because his most important paper was with Stiglitz, who got the prize for something else
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