📢 ¡Mañana es el gran día! Este viernes 4 de abril estrenamos el episodio #33 de Ceteris Paribus 🎙️ 🔍 Corrupción y naufragio 💡 Invitado: Fernando Arteaga (@penn) 🎧 Conduce: Angel Alvarado No te lo pierdas. Disponible en tu plataforma favorita.

On Friday, April 11, I’m co-hosting a conference at Penn on Quantum Computing Applications in Economics and Finance: 🔗 sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/QC.pdf If you’re around Penn, join us at the PCPSE Auditorium! Curious why quantum matters for econ? 🧵 A quick thread on why we should care.

Excited to be lecturing next week at Oxford (#OxfordEconomics) on geoeconomics; offering an overview of the field and discussing some of my own work, from measuring geopolitical fragmentation to using machine learning to track global shipping. 📅 30 May, 1.30 pm 📍 Oxford &

I’m sharing my slide deck on the demographic future of humanity, 🔗 Slides: sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slide… prepared for the keynote address I will give tomorrow to the 7th EBRD and CEPR Research Symposium on “The Economics of Demographic Change”: 🔗 Symposium: ebrd.com/home/news-and-…

Given the unexpected success of my presentation on the demographic future of humanity, I am reposting a podcast I recorded with Alice Evans a few months ago on the same topic: youtu.be/EM8200Vl7R4?si… It was a lengthy conversation, but I found it interesting. In any case,

Explore how economic thought evolved from medieval philosophy to modern theories, starting June 19. 📘 6 open online sessions 🗓️ Tues & Thurs at 11:30am EST 🧠 Thinkers: Aquinas, Smith, Marx, Marshall, Keynes, Friedman, Hayek 🔗 econthought.org

On June 19th, PISM (the center I direct at Penn Economics) launches our annual summer open online course. This year’s theme: Foundational Thinkers in Economics. 🧠 econthought.org Over 11 sessions (Tues & Thurs, 11:30am EST), we’ll cover: Xenophon, Aristotle, Aquinas,

Posting the slides for Lecture 2 of our PISM course on foundational thinkers in economics: Adam Smith (1723–1790) and the Scottish Enlightenment: 📄 sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/ET_2_… 🎥 Videos here: sites.google.com/view/foundatio… And no, I haven’t forgotten I want to post more on some

Grateful (and a bit nervous!) to have received the 2025 Penn Global Research and Engagement Grant (Penn Global), especially in such tight budgetary times. The book will be based on my course, The Economic History of Latin America. You can get all the slides here:

Yesterday, I explained how, in “Charting the Uncharted: Oil Sanctions and Dark Shipping” (with Yiliang Li, Le Xu, and Francesco Zanetti), we used machine learning 🤖 to uncover that the dark fleet🚢transported 9.3 million metric tons of crude oil per month between 2017 and

🎓 Today I delivered the final lecture of Penn's Exchange’s Foundations of Economic Thought summer course by focusing on the evolution of macroeconomics from 1970 to 2000: 🔗 sites.google.com/view/foundatio… 🧠 Unsurprisingly, UMN Economics features prominently in the story (although

📘 Continuing the series of slide decks from Penn's Exchange’s Foundations of Economic Thought summer course, today I share: 📚 Karl Marx and the Marxian Tradition sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/ET_3_… This is a significantly longer set of slides—designed to support at least five hours of

En esta entrevista (en español) explico mi trabajo con Yiliang Li, Francesco Zanetti y Le Xu sobre las sanciones petroleras y cómo medimos las exportaciones ilegales de crudo usando un algoritmo de inteligencia artificial: 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=lW9Rfr… Gracias a

We open our Fall 2025 seminars with Nuno Palma (U. Manchester), presenting Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution, which shows how legal capacity through Justices of the Peace underpinned law, regulation, and taxation for long-run growth in England.

We host Christopher Clayton (Yale), presenting “International Currency Competition.” He argues competition makes it harder for countries to build reputation as safe-asset issuers, keeping many stuck low, while the U.S. can use its debt policy to crowd out challengers like China.

Today Robert P. George (Princeton) presented his newest book: Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth. He argues that like markets need trust and shared norms, societies too require the pursuit of objective truths, not just feelings, to sustain freedom and cooperation.

Join us for a discussion on 26 years of the Bolivarian Revolution, its promises and collapse, and what this experience reveals about the relationship between populism, democracy, and prosperity. 📅 Oct 22, 5:30 pm | UPenn PCPSE 250 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/Q6xrcbWVyLYeYN…

Request for proposals: HPE and the United States. Papers for a special issue of JHPE, with a conference USC Price School in early May. Details below.

PISM Seminar today by Pier Paolo Creanza “Factories of Ideas? Big Business and the Golden Age of American Innovation.” He argues firms merging during the Great Merger Wave became markedly more innovative, largely by building corporate R&D labs that boosted patenting and breakthroughs.

¡Episodio 41: De Potosí al Litio 🇧🇴! 5 siglos de historia minera de Bolivia en un solo podcast. José Péres-Cejías (Univ. Barcelona) nos lleva de la plata de Potosí y el auge del estaño, a los retos de la era del Litio. Riqueza, poder y grandes cambios. youtu.be/Hd7nHdag30Q