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The real proof Keynesianism is wrong is that Japan has an extremely sluggish growth even when Godzilla destroys their cities every couple years and yet all the government spending to rebuild them doesn't improve the economy

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A minute of silence for all of those who enrolled in a Political Economy class hoping to learn how capitalism works and were taught the median voter theorem instead

Thank god GPT-4 has been announced. Now we can all return to AI discourse after a weekend of macroprudential policy. Twitter is healing.

To new beginnings!

For all of the AT-ST references, please tell me someone is working on the BD-1 collab...

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How conflicts of interest — defined as financial, professional, or ideological stakes held by authors — affect perceived credibility in economics research, from John M Barrios🇨🇺🇺🇦, Filippo Lancieri, Joshua Levy, Shashank Singh, Tommaso Valletti, and Zingales nber.org/papers/w33645

WARP violation in the wild?

Our new paper, “The Conflict-of-Interest Discount in the Marketplace of Ideas,” is out on the NBER homepage.Zingales Tommaso Valletti Disclosed conflicts lead to a 28–39% drop in trust—and 95% of economists trust their own disclosures, but only 2% trust others’. See link ⬇️

This is an incredibly important paper. Relatedly, if you're an antitrust scholar and you're getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a dominant monopolist as expert witness in a lawsuit that's in your research area, shouldn't you disclose that work on your CV?

A recent paper co-authored by several Stigler Center-affiliated scholars, including @BarriosEcon, Joshua Levy, Shashank Singh, Tommaso Valletti, and Zingales discussed how conflicts of interest impact the trustworthiness of economics research. Together with UCL Centre for Law, Economics & Society (CLES),

INFOGRAPHIC 📈 👇 Analysis finds a conflict decreases trust in an economic paper’s conclusions. ms.spr.ly/6017S5Mpc

Did my man not watch HIS OWN movie?!?!?!