BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
#NobelPrize
Where did your daily cappuccino come from?
Well, it involves the Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683, a group of Italian monks, and a Polish spy.
But the story begins 700 years ago with a city in Yemen called Mocha...
Please consider donating to One Rent, One Home to provide rent support for those who lost their homes in the Kahramanmaraş earthquake. Many thanks to @FukuyamaFrancis for his support. Feel free to share it.
https://t.co/QiAOtjaEq6
Millions who are affected by the earthquake are dealing with harsh weather conditions. 10 cities are affected, and the resources are spread thin. If you consider donating, the Turkish embassy and consulates in the U.S. also collect in-kind donations.
If you're a professor or a student in STEM in a Western country, you probably know someone from the Sharif University of Technology in Iran. They might have be your students, peers, or friends.
That university is now under attack by the Islamic Republic.
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#MahsaAmini
I am very happy that my paper with Kejia Hu was selected in 3rd place in the INFORMS Times Working Paper Competition. The paper is available in SSRN
https://t.co/FJozwJYtFW #informs2021
Grubhub and Russia’s Yandex will deploy suitcase-size food-delivery rovers to some of the 250 college campuses where Grubhub operates in the U.S. https://t.co/MYEYjy9mxe
Food-delivery apps’ ambitions are bigger than your lunch. They’re after a whole new category of logistics, and are increasingly billing their specialty not as food but as speed and convenience. https://t.co/vbwFrShdM6
States that fared worse economically have experienced greater increases in legislative polarization, especially for Republicans. IV using oil price changes to suggest causality
#SocSciResearch
https://t.co/MRQqmHoWrG
Farmers and food companies across the country are throttling back production as the virus creates chaos in the agricultural supply chain, erasing sales to restaurants, hotels and cafeterias despite grocery stores rushing to restock shelves
https://t.co/Wy4RpBtfgf @WSJ