Alejandro Gonzalez

Ph.D student in Economics | Post-Keynesian | Competent in Macro, but aiming to be the last generalist after Samuelson | Economics, Politics and random thoughts

[Alejandro Gonzalez @AlejandroPh_C]

🚨 I’m on the economics job market!

My research lies at the intersection of empirical macro, labor, and income distribution.

My Job Market Paper: “Bargaining Shocks and the Macroeconomy: A Narrative Approach.”
📄 [https://t.co/a7b52j40Mh]
#EconTwitter #JobMarketPaper

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Eres un criminal de guerra. El judaísmo no se basa en la raza, se basa en la religión. No representas a los judíos, tú no eres judío. Apoyas un baño de sangre; palestinos, libaneses y judíos sufren por tu maldito estado de Israel".

Así enfrentó un judío a un fanático sionista de Nueva York, el supremacista sionista llegó a llamarle "Amalek" (un personaje bíblico enemigo de los judíos) por no apoyar el genocidio en Gaza.

Esta es la diferencia del sionismo y el judaísmo, uno es una ideología supremacista racial y lo segundo es una religión, aunque pueden ir unidas, a la mayoria de colonos ni siquiera les importa nada de lo que realmente dice la religión.

[TUGO News @TugoNews]

-La industria del juicio es una mierda
+Tenes idea del porcentaje de juicios?
-Eee no la verdad que no
+Es de 2,31%
-Eee si pero yo tengo un amigo que…
+Si pero estos son DATOS

Por favor miren el BAILE q le pegó el Pollo Sobrero al libertario ignorante que le pusieron en frente

[David Van Dijcke @packlesshepherd]

I coded up an open-source, not-for-profit AI paper reviewer that rivals the performance of @reviewer3com, @RefineInk, and Stanford Agentic Reviewer (according to @GeminiApp). Costs <$2!

Live @ https://t.co/5m1Srky4H8. Plug in paper, @OpenRouter key, and email. #econtwitter.

[Matt Bruenig @MattBruenig]

Has the Position of College Graduates Worsened? https://t.co/BYztocur3u

re: @EricLevitz @noamscheiber

[Alejandro Gonzalez @AlejandroPh_C]

Stalin often intervened in public newspapers to engage with debates on linguistics, biology and physics to sanction views closer to his.

Milei is no different: as academically incapable as Stalin, this spectacle is meant to elevate his cult of personality.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote.

“I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’”

“I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”

[Valentina Andrade de la Horra @valentiandrade]

Algunos alegan de los placement de los latinos en PhD porque es “basado en conexiones porque no hacemos predoc”. He conocido muchos predocs que quedan en top 5 sin tener research, no saben ocupar Stata/R, no saben micro/macro/metrics. Que tienen? Undergrad en una Ivy.

[Andrés Neumeyer @andyneumeyer]

These students are exceptional. Rather than serving as RAs in predoc programs, they produce independent research in the second (and often third) year of their master’s. They also complete a demanding PhD-level core in micro, macro, and metrics. The best of these papers rival second-year PhD work and strongly signal their research potential. A 30 year track record confirms this.

[Alastair and 147 others @quasistable]

It’s a bullshit study and really bad science.

They tested 25 women with a bunch of different tests in dehydrated or hydrated states.

The dehydration made *no difference to objective tests*.

A couple of the other subjective survey results showed small differences, but these are misleadingly presented to make them seem higher than they are. Either way the subjective feelings had no impact on performance.

The “58% harder” or “45% more difficult concentrating” results are annoying. The tasks were all basically rated as “easy” by everyone: hydrated people rated the tests as 2/10 difficulty, dehydrated rated them as 3/10 difficulty (even though they actually performed exactly the same as the hydrated group).

This is a standard trick this sort of bad study uses: using a big scale with all the results clustered at one end makes very small absolute changes seem large as percentage differences.

They also specifically mentioned that the study participants drank Volvic brand water to hydrate. Funny, that.

[Jon Steinsson @JonSteinsson]

Technical change often simplifies the tasks performed by labor. This raises productivity. But it can also erode the bargaining power of workers.

My new paper “The Commoditization of Labor” (with Fukui and Nakamura) is about this.

Some thoughts. (Link below) 1/

[Socialdemócrata @SocDemCHL]

Bernardo Fontaine acaba de repostear este gráfico donde 2,4% es menos que 1,8%, Patriqo Aywin fue presidente, Boric gobernó 8 años (2018-2026) y Piñera gobernó entre 2010 y 2018. Ah, y 15% es menos que 5%!

Próximo presidente de CODELCO.

[David @dqveed]

Better headline: "7 year old killed by anti-vax parents"

[Andrés Velasco @AndresVelasco]

Esta carta apareció en El Mercurio hoy:

[Morten N. Støstad @MortenStostad]

Underrated fact: In nearly all economic settings, you cannot objectively know how much value anyone produces. It is unknowable.

The simple heuristics we use (e.g. value=marginal contribution) all fall apart under scrutiny. Why?

[Alejandro Gonzalez @AlejandroPh_C]

@FlorinBilbiie Florin, do you have in mind the Weimar Republic or could you expand a bit on what you mean?

[Luca Fornaro @LucaFornaro3]

How will AI affect our economies? In this new paper, we argue that macroeconomic policies may determine whether we will face an AI slump or an AI boom. Spoiler: monetary policy alone may have a hard time sustaining an AI boom, employment subsidies/cuts in labor taxes can help.

[DreⱯd is Here 2024 @Deve_Dy]

Polymarket is evil for all the obvious reasons but it is also a right wing machine for lying

[Alejandro Gonzalez @AlejandroPh_C]

If your conception of "fun" is limited to video games, you have a very poor conception of what fun is. The job of the scientist can be thrilling and exciting, shedding light on all the unknowns that humankind faces one step at a time.

I certainly find this part of the job fun!

[Rafael R. Guthmann @GuthmannR]

This thread reminds me of a colleague from gradschool who said that he went into our economics PhD program because of the long vacations in academia. 🙃

A PhD in economics is for people who want a life of the mind.

It is not "for fun" (thats what videogames are for), and it is not the ideal path for making a lot of money quickly (although econ professors are paid relatively well, and I know some econ PhDs who became rich by working in finance after dropping out of academia).

Also, doing a PhD in economics does not feel like a "lot of work" if it is really something that you want to do.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Zohran on CBS: " I think what we can see is that a democratic socialist politics is one that should be judged on its delivery, like any ideology ...  I think that this is a politics that can flourish anywhere because, frankly, there is only one majority in this country — that's the working class and it's time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what it is that we're pursuing and not as part of the appendix."

[Miguel Faria e Castro @mfariacastro]

1/ new paper w/ @pascalpaul and @vediense: Stabilization vs. Growth

When firms in distress are saved, the economy may become more stable in the short run, at the cost of long-run growth.
We study this trade-off in a model w/ fluctuations, endogenous growth, and heterog. firms