fixated on history & institutions. avg at economics,running & thinking abt statistical inference. MS Analytical Econ @uniheidelberg, RAing @DaiResearch, RT != E
Some Piketty (et al.) bangers to explain why he is so respected, even before Das Capital 2.0, and whatever AI-generated stuff he publishes in the newspaper today
In the 1990s, he formalised theories of self-fulfilling preferences and redistribution. He showed us (1/4)
Today I submitted my PhD! It draws on new archival evidence to examine Che Guevara’s trade and diplomatic missions to Afro-Asia and the socialist bloc. Just in time for the World Cup too ⚽️
The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney
The "diffusion of the iPhone deepened the decline in births among women under 30 while suppressing the rise in births among older women...the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33–52% of the decline in the general fertility rate among women aged 15–44." https://t.co/EeNz1QlW7O
India is facing some seriously unpaletable choices, according to the data presented by the Reserve Bank of India. More featured on today's Chartbook Top Links in the comment below.
History’s full circle
Today’s fertility decline concern (see @TheEconomist piece) was “yesterday’s” population growth global alarmism
Excerpts from our book-A SIXTH OF HUMANITY-on human capital costs of Indian elites’ obsession with popn. control (Mrs. Gandhi won a UN award)
@follynomics I read it not v long ago. Its based more on central asia and the expansionary struggle that ensued between the russians and brits. But yeah the AI is right. Also references rudyard kipling in a very interesting manner. lmk if you read it!
Ces épitaphes viennent d'être gravées au #perelachaise sur le tombeau que Marjane Satrapi a dédié à son mari :
"De la vie nous attendions l'Éternité. Quelle déception.
Nous sommes la question que l'Univers se pose.
Si la réponse est l'Amour
Ce fut court mais ce fut riche."
I have just finished reading this fine and moving autobiography of the eminent Hindi writer Mannu Bhandari, sensitively rendered into English by Poonam Saxena. I shall be writing about the book and what it tells us about our country in a forthcoming column.
No one understood a composer's vision faster, and no one poured more focus into a song than SPB. Celebrating the life, friendship, and the unmatched achievement of 50,000 songs. Happy Birthday, SPB.
An absolutely brilliant telling of the real India @jyotiyadaav @livemint
One that rarely comes up in our conversations on growth, tech, opportunity
The crisis keeps changing-Covid, migration, war. Headlines move on. Yet for some, the vulnerability is constant
Asking why openness has been a strong catalyst for catch-up growth in some regions or countries, while in others openness has been followed by stalled convergence, divergence, or stagnation, from Joshua Aizenman, @hiroitopdx, and Jamel Saadaoui https://t.co/YHNaWdRV0R
Wow. @derspiegel has made millions of Nazi party membership cards searchable so Germans can look up their ancestors and get a glimpse of what they were doing under Hitler