Ahmed Chaudhry

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Political Economist | Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Late Blooming Cricketer | Always Sleepy

[Ingar Haaland @Ingar30]

I've updated my Paper Reviewer with equal support for Codex and Claude Code! I think Sol 6.1 has the edge on Opus 5.5, but it's your choice! One-line installation and paper review:
uvx --from git+https://t.co/1KqKoX8WEW economics-paper-reviewer --backend codex --pdf "paper.pdf"

[Abhishek Nagaraj @abhishekn]

ok, so I had codex check this out and broadly Emulate checks out.

Codex had emulate generate 100 texts ran each through pangram

result? 85 were labeled Human, 7 were "mixed" and 8 were AI.

one downside seems to be writing quality seems to suffer as measured by adherence, coherence and usefulness.

all data and code here:
https://t.co/46ic1GetjC

[Raza Ahmad Rumi @Razarumi]

Great list! 📺

[The Economic Misfit @EconomicMisfit]

📢 Call for Papers: DEV-Connect Webinar Series

Are you conducting research in development economics? DEV-Connect is inviting paper submissions.

Selected papers may have the opportunity to:

Present at a DEV-Connect webinar with a panel of discussants

Receive in-depth feedback through a mentor or supervisor

Be considered for a special issue of the Journal of Applied Economics, subject to peer review

Submit your paper: https://t.co/wpifdQIUJ9

[Jesús Fernández-Villaverde @JesusFerna7026]

This semester, I am teaching a reading-based graduate course in global economic history, running in parallel with my lecture-based undergraduate course on the same topic.

Many readers ask for a guide to learning more about the field, so I am posting the syllabus (minus the assessment section, which will not interest you):

https://t.co/tJLZVaenIX

I know many economic historians follow me. If I did not include your book or paper, I apologize. This is not a judgment on its quality, only the sad reality that in 12 weeks I can only cover so much. I often assign work I like less than the alternatives, precisely to push students to think hard about why it may be less compelling than its reputation suggests.

Comments are always welcome (and if you are at Penn, there are still a couple of slots available).

[Ahmed Chaudhry @ahmedch92]

@MazherArshad Jofra was given due time to recover, and monitored by ECB. Even when he went to play club cricket earlier in his recovery, that became a controversial.

On the other hand we rush our half fit players to play tournaments. We did that to Shaheen.

[PhD-EVS @PhdEvs]

📢 Call for Papers
PhD-EVS is now accepting Job Market Paper submissions! Present your JMP to an audience of economists across institutions, virtually.
🗓️ Deadline: Sep 18
🔗 Submit: https://t.co/ULyR3JBwEm
🎓 Open to: PhD candidates & recent grads on the job market

#EconTwitter

[Jesús Fernández-Villaverde @JesusFerna7026]

Today was the first day of the semester at Penn, and I started my course in Global Economic History!

The lecture was fun, and I tried to convey not only why economic growth is so important but also that anything we could have done to increase growth over the last 100 years would have had monumental consequences: we would have many more resources to eradicate global poverty, manage the fertility collapse and population aging, clean up the planet and decarbonize the economy, and, more generally, offer better opportunities to everyone across the globe.

Artificial intelligence, cheap energy, and modern science and technology have opened the doors to fundamental changes and opportunities, but only if we know how to take advantage of them.

The slides are here:

https://t.co/P4RykL2tTC

Nonetheless, I reminded the students of something perhaps even more fundamental. Many of the topics we will cover admit more than one interpretation of the evidence or hinge on how you weigh the outcomes. Does industrial policy work? If it does, is the cost worth paying?

I told them many times that they do not have to share my reading of the evidence or my criteria for judging outcomes. I have changed my mind about several of these questions, and experts have a poor record on economic growth over the past century.

I also told them we will grade their homework and exams based on command of the material, not on their agreement with me, and that I will try to set questions that agreement cannot answer, but understanding of the material and the arguments presented.

John Stuart Mill summarized the reason well:

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that…Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

Put another way: I would rather have my students reach the wrong conclusion by their own reasoning than the right one by taking my word for it. After all, independent thinking gave us modern science and technology. Let’s have more of it!

[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

Comparative Politics

Today I begin my seminar on Comparative Politics for PhD students.

Here is the syllabus: https://t.co/OU8FyEvRKx

The readings are a selection – the field is huge. It is also the first part of a two-semester sequence. However, they may still be useful for those interested in the topic.

[Elaine Liu @ElaineLiuEcon]

Development job market candidates: I have a few slots for you to present your JM paper in my PhD development class at GSU this fall.

A full seminar slot, a room of aspiring development economists, and real questions.

DM me your title and abstract. #EconTwitter

[Claudio Ferraz @claudferraz]

We are launching a new BREAD-IGC virtual PhD course on political economy for the fall 2026. This is jointly organized with Mike Callen and Fred Finan https://t.co/SicZenTTdV via @The_IGC

[BookNote @BookNoteApp]

10 books to fall in love with history:

1) The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

( asia's trade routes )

[Jesús Fernández-Villaverde @JesusFerna7026]

A young person asked me today for a few papers that would be great to read early on in one’s career. Here is a list I came up with (I posted a shorter list earlier in reply to a comment). There are many other great papers (and I apologize if I didn’t include yours), but my goal was to focus on papers that a 21-year-old undergrad would enjoy a lot. A paper on the asymptotic properties of the bootstrap or on some subtle point about New Keynesian models, as important as it might be, is not what I am looking for. Also, of course, the list reflects my deeply biased taste. So, feel free to add in the comment section other papers you love!

Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt (1992), “A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction,” Econometrica.

George A. Akerlof (1970), “The Market for ‘Lemons’: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism,” Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Armen A. Alchian (1950), “Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory,” Journal of Political Economy.

William J. Baumol (1967), “Macroeconomics of Unbalanced Growth: The Anatomy of Urban Crisis,” American Economic Review.

Gary S. Becker (1973), “A Theory of Marriage: Part I,” Journal of Political Economy.

Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig (1983), “Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity,” Journal of Political Economy.

Xavier Gabaix (1999), “Zipf’s Law for Cities: An Explanation,” Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Xavier Gabaix and Augustin Landier (2008), “Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?,” Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Luis Garicano (2000), “Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge in Production,” Journal of Political Economy.

Edward L. Glaeser, Bruce Sacerdote and José A. Scheinkman (1996), “Crime and Social Interactions,” Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Sanford J. Grossman and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1980), “On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets,” American Economic Review.

Oliver Hart and John Moore (1990), “Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm,” Journal of Political Economy.

Friedrich A. Hayek (1945), “The Use of Knowledge in Society, American Economic Review.

Bengt Holmström (1979), “Moral Hazard and Observability,” Bell Journal of Economics.

Charles I. Jones (1995), “R&D-Based Models of Economic Growth,” Journal of Political Economy.

Charles I. Jones (2005), “The Shape of Production Functions and the Direction of Technical Change,” Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Michael Kremer (1993), “Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990,” Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Michael Kremer (1993), “The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development,” Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Paul Krugman (1991), “Increasing Returns and Economic Geography,” Journal of Political Economy.

Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (1978), “On the Size Distribution of Business Firms,” Bell Journal of Economics.

Kevin M. Murphy, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1989), “Industrialization and the Big Push,” Journal of Political Economy.

Paul M. Romer (1990), “Endogenous Technological Change,” Journal of Political Economy.

Sherwin Rosen (1981), “The Economics of Superstars,” American Economic Review.

Alvin E. Roth (2007), “Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets,” Journal of Economic Perspectives.

Thomas C. Schelling (1971), “Dynamic Models of Segregation,” Journal of Mathematical Sociology.

Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1993), “Corruption,” Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Michael Spence (1973), “Job Market Signaling,” Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Robert M. Townsend (1979), “Optimal Contracts and Competitive Markets with Costly State Verification,” Journal of Economic Theory.

Martin L. Weitzman (1974), “Prices vs. Quantities,” Review of Economic Studies.

[Jadrian Wooten @Wootenomics]

For all my econ teachers out there looking for something to help your students see economics more clearly, Monday Morning Economist was built for exactly this.

Do you have students who always ask for more? Send them here 👇

[Ahmed Chaudhry @ahmedch92]

@paulnovosad I guess ref writing a report as they normally should without AI, and then use AI to see if any of their their comments are already dealt by as robustness might also be beneficial. Also refs should declare if the original comment was their own or AI generated to which they agree

[Nicolas Camara @nickscamara_]

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[Louis-Philippe Rochon @Lprochon]

The latest issue of Advances in Economics Education @Elgar_Economics which I guest edited with Sergio Rossi, on "The Standard Neoclassical Curriculum - Critique and Alternatives"

The issue is here: https://t.co/H1pcctN8MC

My article with Sergio "The logical flaws of neoclassical economics and why we should not teach it" is here:
https://t.co/APrULxIzJ7

You can download my article for free.

[Antonio Mele @antoniomele101]

Game changer

[Gideon Bornstein @GidiBo]

Finding NBER Summer Institute talks on YouTube is surprisingly frustrating.

I asked Claude to build a searchable webpage that finds any talk by paper, author, or session, and jumps straight to where it starts in the video.

Link in the first reply.