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Including this aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… from yours truly…

Finally! #aurora

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

New paper with Bahadir Dursun & Diego Zambiasi: doi.org/10.1111/jors.1…

📢Ex-rebels govern almost a quarter of sub-Saharan Africa today. How does war affect these countries’ long-run political development, & what explains their rebel regimes’ longevity? Shelley Liu explores the role of coercion in rebel governance⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/rebel-governan…

Newcastle University invites applications for the Peter and Norah Lomas PhD Studentship, covering all fees and including a generous stipend. It is for a student doing a full-time PhD in 'Economics or Economic History', per the terms of Mr Lomas's gift. jobs.ac.uk/job/DKK535/phd…

NEW BLOG: What impact do terrorist attacks have on our shared sense of identity? New research shows that higher exposure to terrorism strengthens identification with Britain but not with its constituent nations. This matters for social welfare. shorturl.at/spdxy

Last day of The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development conference on “Economic development & structural change” conference in honor of W. Arthur Lewis! With a fascinating keynote lecture by Gerard Roland. on “Successes and Failures in Development: From Capital Accumulation to Institutions and Culture”

📢 How does war shape prosocial behavior? Using random military assignment: conflict exposure reduces altruism toward out-groups. Stronger for veterans with direct combat experience, driven by increased out-group hostility and authoritarianism. 📃bit.ly/4fHnVPs

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What happens when an economist reads Homer's epic tale of Odysseus??? tylercowen is here to tell his tale. Read Part 1 at Econlib today: loom.ly/zfPhy18 #Homer #TheOdyssey #economics #classics

🚨 New Version Alert! 🚨 We’ve just finished a major revision of our paper on political rhetoric and racial discrimination in drug arrests. We show how War on Drugs rhetoric shaped law enforcement behavior. Francesco Barilari 📄 Read it here: [papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…]

Harry Pickard Harry Pickard (Newcastle) is now presenting the paper “Institutional Origins and the Balance of Power: Long-run effects of the Danelaw Boundary on English State Formation”, with Soeren Henn Soeren Henn (Wisconsin-Madison) 👇🏼

🚨 Announcement - Hajnal Lecture 2025 🚨 "The Origins of Constitutional Government" by Mark Koyama May 7, 2025 from 4 to 5:30 pm The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development, University of Manchester And no need to register to come to the lecture! 1/3

Arthur Lewis Lab Predoctoral Fellow, The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development, University of Manchester - 2 year position to be announced soon. In the meanwhile, informal enquiries / expressions of interest can be sent to Nuno Palma 👇

🛥️Joris Frese applies Multiple Unexpected Events during Survey Design to study how Mediterranean shipwrecks shape immigration attitudes... ➡️...and finds anti-immigration attitudes only declined in one exceptionally high-salience case cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

Four majors made Rory McIlroy great. Completing a career Grand Slam, legendary.

Rory McIlroy receives his Green Jacket. #themasters

Superb piece from ⁦Tim Wigmore⁩ on wobble seam telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025/0…

Peter Thiel on why 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist: “When one has too much student debt or if housing is too unaffordable, then one will have negative capital for a long time… and if one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one may well turn against it.”