Claudio A.G. Piga

European economist who used to work in England, but recently moved to Italy. Follows sport, politics, cinema, music, literature, comedy.
I am not @cippiga

[Luca 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @LucaBellinzona]

Sentivamo proprio il bisogno di una modella russa che non sa prendere le distanze da una guerra illegale e disumana che la Russia fascista di Putin porta avanti da quattro anni a questa parte.
#Sanremo2026

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Polifemo @ #Sanremo2025

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"We are presented with a virtual world powered, literally, by the incineration of the real." (P.Murray, 'The Bee Sting', p. 560)

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@albertobisin il ventennio berlusconiano ha fatto danni maggiori di quelli mussoliniano. Ha sfibrato il tessuto morale di una nazione "immatura". E continuerà a farne: nessuno pensa di intitolare un aeroporto a Mussolini. Chissà cos'altro si penseranno?

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@Econ_Marshall @LeistenEcon Did this really happen and who was the speaker?

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#econtwitter Economics Dept at University of Genoa offers FIVE scholarships (€16500) for PhD students in Economics and Quantitative Methods. Requires a Master's degree in these and related subjects
Apply here: https://t.co/vgpTkNoDE6

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"In '23, the EU opened a probe into AliExpress regarding "potential dissemination of illegal products such as fake medicines, non-compliant food, and ineffective dietary supplements (Wikipedia). Let alone that its ownership is based on another autocratic country. Pecunia non olet

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UEFA managers never learn. Few years ago they let the russian gas monopoly sponsor the Champions League. Now the European Cup advertises a platform for which

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pearls of wisdom!

[Robert Harris @Robert___Harris]

Brexit, the great unmentionable of this election, is really what has done for the Tories. It’s infuriated both those who voted to remain, who see it as a colossal self-inflicted disaster, and those who voted leave, who think they were told a pack of lies. Result: annihilation.

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@steve_tadelis With all the sympathy and the appreciation for the final outcome, I ask you to imagine if exactly the same paper had been sent by some scholars from some remote university, would it be on E'trica now? I know, impossible to answer, we do not have the counterfactual.

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chiacchierata su liberalizzazione aerea, prezzi dei biglietti e le bufale sulla presunta sofisticazione degli algoritmi che li generano..ah, anche sui "decreti" del governo.. https://t.co/MPnnwZsndt
#Algorithms

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@OxfordFrom Hi. What a relief to find out I am not the only one to think that!

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@KhoaVuUmn almost right. IO economists buying airline tickets, but only in monopoly routes.

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@2312_leonardo @lageloni ma siamo sicuri che la contestualizzazione storica del film rappresenti il presente? oppure un presente immaginato? ma 80 anni sono passati invano? Tutto è come era? Ma per favore...

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@IgorLetina that the authors thought it unethical to torture the data to make them confess. It will not be published in at least 2 top 5...

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@PBougette see you there soon

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@ojblanchard1 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane got it right abt 50 years ago in "White Rabbit": "Feed your Head🎵🎶".
Of course, song title should be changed to "multicolour"🤪😉

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@tired_of_woke @joshua_t_white the publication game is a socially wasteful arrangement, full of political economy problems, that too often has very little to do with producing new knowledge. At most, sometimes, just a new different angle at looking at the same thing

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@ZetaOf1 @TomValletti Ecclesiastes (or the Byrds 😉🎵🎶), there is a time for everything

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@ZetaOf1 @TomValletti wrong, they may be, I agree, but at least one of them, the only one alive, would agree with you. Maybe on this the ying/yang ☯️ perspective is a good compromise: sometimes the flame has to burn uncontrolled and when it does, flickering begins. cntd