Matthias Klaes

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[Matthias Klaes @MKL4ES]

@Jackbmeyer With a straight face? Then my answer is, absolutely. It's the only of those texts still on my shelf after teaching micro over many years.

But it also embodies how little conceptual progress we have had since it was published 30 years ago and what's wrong with the discipline.

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Local news hijack:

Liz Jones & Broken Windows and three great local acts live up the valley in Kinlochard village hall tomorrow night, final few tickets and going fast:
https://t.co/dTjq0RR0Nl

We're raising funds to help complete a 22 acre community land buyout

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@S_Stantcheva @LSEnews Great lecture and contribution to the rapidly behavioral policy field, Coase would have approved of this broader perspective on economic method.

Economica though, not so much? Absence of papers built on his work or their celebration(not) of his paper in their outlet. #branding

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@timricketts_ This is hairraisingly misleading, and the FT article actually points it out, albeit very meekly towards the end. Show me a single junior doctor in training whose take home pay has actually declined 25% over that period. I even grant you free choice of inflation correction.

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@BloombergUK Crucially for UKs HE sector, @vonderleyen has confirmed this clears way for #horizon association agreement so thhat we can finally get back to business with our EU academic colleagues

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@BretDevereaux Sorry for coming in sideways with an unrelated question: being new to this but keen to incorporate in my teaching, do any of these games allow for some of the dynamics of forming customs / free trade unions, in gameplay or context?

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@jaredcrubin @jaj7d This will be a most useful reference point for demarcating the North American tradition of political economy in our discipline.

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@and_joy_ @jmorenocruz @CleoCZ My favourite along those lines: you really want the basic principal agent model to be linear because tractability and how else could it ever become mainstream. So you cobble together a behemoth of multi-period random walk that in the limit turns out to be, wait for it, linear 😀

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@LabSapienza @AISPE_2021 @EdithKuiper @manuelamosca60 @rgbetancourt Great to see in print and introduced so splendidly. I fear our field still struggles with the need for historiography
to *systematically* include the voices of women.

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@sciencespo rip Bruno Latour, 1947-2022

The Edinburgh Gifford lectures in 2013 his most spectacular, but at his pithiest last year for the Kyoto Prize, from wine to Pasteur to the pandemic and back. Or, the best explanation of modernism, ever:
https://t.co/nxPJ4ETptB

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@desroches_tyler Mary Douglas, The World of Goods

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Historic @THETSoc gathering in Chester tomorrow, wish me luck will try sneak in a tripod for some video capture

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@Ivan_A_Boldyrev @itaisher This reminds me of what a crucial addition @ErasmusJPE has become over the years to the journal portfolio of our fields of interest, a bit like JEM was to E&P 20y ago, but leveraged way beyond that through #openaccess

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@sdjohns Yes - the way it's become used now there is so little positive or even neutral technical meaning left in that word that perhaps it should be dropped from responsible public discourse altogether.

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@ErikAngner Endorsed! Nor do they keep to deadlines

[Marina Della Giusta, EconProf@Unito, European @mardelgiu]

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽New publication with @LonghiSi! 🐝Stung by Pension Reforms: The unequal impact of changes in state pension age @WASPI_Campaign @econromesh @DWP @HelenMiller_IFS @econoflove @Sevilla_Almu @ShellyJLundberg https://t.co/qgbelzrBEZ

[Johannes Haushofer @jhaushofer]

Extremely excited about this one: the first "core" economics course on https://t.co/Ucw9n41YqG where students from low- and middle-income countries can participate for free and receive a grade!
"Microeconomic Theory" (BA level) with Dr. Marco Celentani at Universidad Carlos III

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@tagesthemen @PeterRNeumann @KingsCollegeLon Congratulations to King's @PeterRNeumann for the most insightful strategic take on @Zabehulah_M33 cum suis in the round of evening news tonight

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@OlgaStoddard It's fair to say though that by mid week we usually hardfork via kitchen whiteboard into various doodles of everybody's latest unilateral changes to agreed itineraries. Hayek lives!

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@OlgaStoddard Like to think we use a mesh of shared calendars that in principle should keep various icals, outlooks and gcals in sync to appease divergent workplace needs (ok.. idiosyncratic preferences among the younger troops).