Dimitrios Nikolaos Benekos

PhD candidate in Economics, University of Luxembourg · Exploring the role of the past in human action

[Dr Anton Howes @antonhowes]

After more than two years of research in archives across Europe:

The malicious plots and international intrigues surrounding the most strategically important invention you’ve never heard of

https://t.co/ZpiLxhUIvL

[Garett Jones @GarettJones]

Greg Clark responds to critics of his 3rd Hemingway-allusion book:
"It is astonishing that the theorists of cultural transmission... cannot themselves produce any empirical tests that will demonstrate conclusively the importance of cultural transmission."
https://t.co/J1DOvGHlV6

[Econ Journal Watch @EconJWatch]

Overreaching on Genes? https://t.co/MapRabmCX2

Rosalind Arden and Robert Plomin, John Benning, Noah Carl, Nikolai Eftedal, Joe Francis, Charles Murray, Jan Stuhler, and Greg Clark

Titles include:

Overreaching on Genes

Who’s Afraid of Gregory Clark?

Survival of the Richest

To Have and Have Not

To Know and Know Not

[Vincent Geloso @VincentGeloso]

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde incentivized me (with his great slides) to share my own course materials on economic history

Link: https://t.co/YexfmP7dig

[Mark Koyama @MarkKoyama]

I've created a webpage (in addition to Canvas) for my new class Big Problem in PPEL: Challenges of the Twentieth Century https://t.co/PvTXSFvwF2

[𝗡𝘂𝗻𝗼 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮 @nunopgpalma]

@andresilvatw In the long run,
Spain became poorer because of its empire than it would have been; see this joint work with @javiercharotti & @JPSantos_econ 👇🏼
https://t.co/xhyWD258J9

[Joachim Voth @joachim_voth]

"At least Hitler built the Autobahn..." Can successful infrastructure projects boost support for a dictatorship? Nico Voigtländer and I wrote a paper looking at the German experience: "Highway to Hitler". Here is a link to the ungated version: https://t.co/BBgwQBcfmm

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

Hayek's insight was one of the most important in economics. Not only is the economic knowledge dispersed but the very actors do not know what knowledge they have, and whether that knowledge makes sense or not, until an action takes place. So aggregation of knowledge is simply impossible.
That does not make central planning "impossible" (as said below), but it makes central planning inefficient because it can never access all decentralized information--much of it, as I said, in nascent and yet not fully formed state.

[Dimitrios Nikolaos Benekos @DNBenekos]

Wars have no winners. The survivors, and their offspring, can bear their losses for decades.

A great work on the persistent effects of war on (the loss of) human capital and innovation.

[Luca Repetto @luca_repetto_c]

What are the effects of large human-capital shocks on innovation?
In a new paper, we study how WWI military deaths across British communities affected local invention over the next decades.
We find that places that lost more young men became persistently less innovative.
(🧵1/11)

[CEPR @cepr_org]

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21196
Religion and the Wealth of Nations after 250 Years
Sascha O. Becker @MonashWarwick
https://t.co/4E7Zc8UB9v
#CEPR_EH #EconTwitter

[Joachim Voth @joachim_voth]

How did people in 1913 see the world? How did they think about the future? We trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts—no Wikipedia, no 20/20. The model literally doesn't know WWI happened. Announcing the Ranke-4B family of models. Coming soon: https://t.co/KOjbdLlH3S

[Luca Repetto @luca_repetto_c]

Fourth edition of our workshop, with the great Sascha Becker as keynote. May 28-29, if you have a paper on institutions/culture/political econ and more with historical flavour please feel free to apply. Help us spread the word!

[P David Boll @pdavidboll]

🚨 New Version 🚨

The new and extended version of our paper on dealing with spatial unit roots in regressions, now
*forthcoming at the Stata Journal* under a new title!

w/ Sascha Becker & @joachim_voth

Relevant to anyone who uses spatial data !

Link and more information in🧵

[Erik Hornung @HornungErik]

New paper alert:

Industrialization and the Return to Labor: Evidence from Prussia

joint with Ann-Kristin Becker, on the JM this year!

How did the IR affect unskilled workers’ wages?

Our answer: coal-driven industrialization raised unskilled wages and compressed inequality.

[Joachim Voth @joachim_voth]

🚨 Your spatial regressions might be SPURIOUS! Forthcoming in Stata Journal: A guide to ready-to-use Stata commands to test & correct for strong spatial dependence 🗺️ w/ Sascha Becker + David Boll. Paper: https://t.co/umfgIFvsBq #EconTwitter #Stata

[Julius Koschnick @JuliusKoschnick]

Nobel laureate Joel Mokyr’s research explained in 4 quick points

[Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht]

Just an incredible prize on such important work.

This newsletter goes into more detail why
https://t.co/Ns2icYBSpt

[Julius Koschnick @JuliusKoschnick]

I’m very excited to see this year’s Nobel price winners.
I’ve been deeply engaged with the works of Joel Mokyr throughout my PhD and I can say that this is one of the most exciting Nobel prizes in econ for a long time. So here's a thread 🧵on Joel Mokyr’s work 🚨🚨

[Peter Boettke @PeterBoettke]

"Culture of Gowth: Origins of the Modern Economy" https://t.co/oEUKfykvdG via @YouTube

[Dimitrios Nikolaos Benekos @DNBenekos]

@MarkKoyama Hi!

Great interest here! :)

A new PhD that is thinking of creating a Historical Economics short course.