Diego Alejo Vázquez

ITESM/COLMEX| Economista y Politologo | Investigador regional en @AmnistiaOnline | Profesor en el @Tec_CSF

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[Diego Alejo Vázquez @diegoalejo1985]

En CDMX, vivimos en una ciudad con profundas desigualdades, no sólo de ingresos sino de acceso a salud, empleo digno, educación

¿Y ustedes, cómo ven la desigualdad? @rojo_neon @DiegoCastaneda @Mile_Dovali @varamburucano @MGF91 @alicekrozer

[Oxfam México @oxfammexico]

@TECHOmx @FrenteaPobreza @FightMex @EligeRed En México, las seis personas más ricas tienen más riqueza que el 50% de personas en situación de pobreza.

¿Y ustedes, cómo ven la desigualdad?

#TiempoParaElCuidado
#AsíSeVe
#AsíSeVive
#ProtestaGlobal

[David Kaplan @David_S_Kaplan]

En mi muy breve presentación en este gran foro en el @CEEColmex, describiré el contenido de esta gráfica.

Es una caracterización detallada del mercado laboral mexicano.

[Adriana H @danay_h]

😬La preocupación de Bloomberg no es solo la deuda de Pemex.

⚠️Es que esa deuda empieza a convertirse en un problema de todos los contribuyentes mexicanos.

🥺México mantiene grado de inversión, pero el mercado ya le cobra como a un país más riesgoso.

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

Dear followers,
I am delighted to share this Nature essay on the alternative to AGI. Thank you

[David Kaplan @David_S_Kaplan]

Aquí un podcast con Santiago Levy sobre productividad y el mercado laboral.

https://t.co/ZcvnDe56jD

Apoyamos esa visión, ADEMÁS DE

instrumentos como el salario mínimo y la negociación colectiva para mitigar el poder de monopsonio.

Explicamos todo aquí https://t.co/b1ciBmeWjQ

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

It is ridiculous to attack @DAcemogluMIT contribution to economics in toto as @TheEconomist is apparently doing. He is, together with Piketty, rightly, the most influential economist of the post-Cold War period, and his contribution-even when one does not agree with everything--is absolurely fundamental.

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

"Many academic economists found Acemoglu's work to be deeply unconvincing."

[John A. List @Econ_4_Everyone]

The economics world is buzzing about the dustup started by @TheEconomist article below on @DAcemogluMIT. I have a few thoughts that I want to direct to my lay readers, or those who do not know the “inside baseball” of economics. Before those, I want to put my cards on the table. To my eye, Daron has changed the landscape of how we think about why nations succeed and fail. He is a scientist’s scientist; always ready to engage on the merits and have a back and forth to learn.

Now the inside baseball stuff: for better or worse, we economists are trained, from our first year of grad school, to poke holes and try to improve each other's work. That’s how our whole ecosystem operates: seminars are 90 minutes of trying to break a paper (and I see that a lot here at @UChicago). We solicit referees to learn about potential flaws…in my three decades as a journal editor, I cannot recall a report ever saying "no flaws found, publish as is." Not for Nobelists, not for anyone.

I have never viewed criticism as a scandal in economics. Rather, it is the ecosystem at work. It is how we control quality. Do a poll, get criticism. That's what we do.

In this spirit, there is something oddly backwards in the coverage: this adversarial culture is a feature, not a bug. Consider when I served at the Council of Economic Advisers. Day to day, our most valuable contributions were stopping bad ideas from happening. Sure, we occasionally created and refined the good ideas, but a key CEA role was being the person in the room who would stand up and say "that is patently nonsense." No better person to play that role than an economist.

And note what makes our system work: even when we criticize anonymously there is accountability. A referee must engage the actual paper, an editor judges the report, and the author can respond. Anonymous quotes over drinks have the anonymity without any of the accountability. That is how I interpret what is happening here with straw polling and cherry picking. Daron, regardless of how good he is (and I know he is very good because I have written lots with him), will receive criticism just like the rest of us, lock, stock, and barrel. And that is fine because a flaw count isn't a verdict.

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

I am not happy about the Economist’s article, which feels like a hit piece. There is also a background to it, which is more troubling (as I will share at some point). I asked them to allow me to respond. I am waiting for their answer. If not in the magazine, I will share my response here.

[Gerardo Esquivel @esquivelgerardo]

Comparto mi columna de hoy en @Milenio: "El ejemplo de la UNAM"

https://t.co/OpQt36k9wO

[Gerardo Esquivel @esquivelgerardo]

Solo 3 países van a terminar la fase de grupos con paso perfecto (3 triunfos en 3 juegos): Francia, Argentina y México.

Francia fue Campeón en 2018.
Argentina fue Campeón en 2022.

Dejo este dato y me retiro lentamente ...

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

Sociologists when economists claim to be the first to study something:

[Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 @DinaPomeranz]

Are you a development economist or interested in development economics? Then join the community of the new International Development Economics Association (IDEA) today!

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

Dear followers, I would like to share this new working paper.
https://t.co/orOij1jAlO
It’s a theoretical exploration of the political consequences of pervasive automation. The worrying implication from the analysis is that the combination of rapid automation and redistribution used in order to quell discontent doesn’t seem stable – more automation necessitates more and more redistribution. This creates a natural complementarity between pervasive automation and repression as the method of choice for holding pitchforks at bay – a particularly concerning conclusion as AI is expected to lead to a lot more automation in the years to come.

[Dr. Hector Rossete @HectorRossete]

Oye Viri, llamar “inclusión” a ver un partido desde una alcaldía pobre mientras millones carecen de medicamentos, seguridad y acceso digno a la salud, es romantizar la pobreza.

La gente no necesita gestos simbólicos; necesita resultados. Lo preocupante no es que la oposición no entienda a la gente, sino que el gobierno ya normalizó fallarle.

[Javier Palummo @jpalummo]

Es interesante ver cómo nuestra Resolución 2/26 ya está contribuyendo a posicionar una discusión más sofisticada y democrática sobre políticas fiscales y derechos humanos en distintos países de la región. Este debate requería estándares, principios y marcos de referencia comunes.

[Javier Palummo @jpalummo]

La garantía efectiva de los #DESCA requiere políticas fiscales compatibles con los derechos humanos.

Desde @DESCA_CIDH realizamos en México un taller que abordó el tema a la luz de la reciente Resolución 2/26 de la CIDH sobre #PolíticasFiscales y #DerechosHumanos.

[SANTIAGO CORCUERA C @CORCUERAS]

Meanwhile, the UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances has said that in Mexico there are well-founded indications that disappearances have reached the level of crimes against humanity.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

This to me is the most anachronistic thing: judges being openly intimidated by a state.
The year is 2026, not 1726, not 726, not 26 AD, not 326 BC.

[Billy Woo Mora @billywoom]

¡Sumamente emocionado de haber obtenido el primer lugar con un proyecto de investigación junto a mi papá! 🙌😊🤠

Mostramos evidencia de cómo las Empresas Sociales y Solidarias promueven el desarrollo local: https://t.co/U8prYDH0wJ

¡Gracias @CEEColmex por el reconocimiento!

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

Dear followers, I’m happy to share a new working paper joint with @davidautor and @baselinescene explaining how a pro-worker direction of AI is feasible and what its effects would be