Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 Recently saw Amartya Sen speak at Amherst College. He said, "I don't know what neoliberalism means. All I know is that when one person calls another neoliberal the first person doesn't like the second."

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Incredibly bad news for Economics in Germany. It was such a coup to attract a young superstar to run one of our leading research institutes away from MIT. I can’t believe we are losing him and all the potential he brought to IZA.

I had to leave IZA in other rough times. Never rejoined, but was happy to see its impressive development under Simon Jäger. With his departure, Germany is leaving a terrible impression re science policy.

This is an open letter from 436 IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation and the Rectorate of the University of Bonn, in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA. docs.google.com/document/d/1kZ…

Here's the letter I just sent to the leadership of the Deutsche Post Foundation announcing my intention to resign as a briq Research Affiliate unless they change course. *I'm not an IZA affiliate so I can't sign that letter.

📢New Research Hub: Lab² How can research practices and the credibility of results in economic sciences be further improved? WZB researcher Levent Neyse and Anna Dreber Almenberg want to provide answers with their new project at the WZB. #EconTwitter🧵1/6 wzb.eu/en/news/new-re…

Der unabhängige Wissenschaftliche Beirat beim @bmwk fordert (einstimmig, bei einer Enthaltung) eine umfassende Reform der #Schuldenbremse Unser Gutachten wird morgen veröffentlicht. Timing könnte also kaum aktueller sein. Hier vorab von Julian Olk handelsblatt.com/politik/deutsc…

Watch the prize in economic sciences lecture. See the 2023 economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin deliver her lecture. Where are you watching from? #NobelPrize x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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Das ist eine sehr traurige Nachricht! Gerd G. Wagner hat das sozio-ökonomische Panel SOEP zu dem gemacht, was es ist: Eine international anerkannte, über Disziplingrenzen hinweg genutzte, exzellente Datengrundlage! Er wird sehr fehlen! x.com/DIW_Berlin/sta…

Ab Herbst hat das WZB eine neue Präsidentin: Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln folgt zum 1. September auf Jutta Allmendinger (Jutta Allmendinger). Goethe-Universität Bildungsmisererepublik Deutschland - BRDigung DFG public | @[email protected] Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

👏 Toute l'équipe de l'IPP félicite Julien Grenet pour sa nomination au Conseil d'analyse économique

Radfahren im Osten, mit einem Reiseführer von 2008: Alle Routen, die Feldwege hatten, sind jetzt asphaltiert. Alle Dörfer, die Gasthäuser hatten, haben jetzt keins.

Very sad news for our community. YingHua made great contributions to market design. Our thoughts are with his friends and family.

Important finding for debates about the value of codes of conduct, ethical guidelines etc.

„Wissenschaftliche Institutionen gehen nicht auf in der Umsetzung von Gründungsprogrammen, zumal wenn diese auf dem Papier von Wissenschaftspolitikern stehen. Das ungeplant Gewachsene kann nicht einfach wegfallen, muss bei Buchprüfung auf den tatsächlichen Ertrag untersucht werde

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