Excited to start as a Lecture/AP at @EconUniofBath 🥳
Looking forward to working with new people, and always grateful for the support from @UTAustinEcon and @UniBonn
🚨 We’re thrilled to announce Prof @kaushikcbasu appointment as a 2025–27 Global Chair @UniofBath!
A globally renowned economist and Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at @CornellEcon, Prof Basu brings extraordinary policy insight and international experience
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A new conference for economic theorists! Submit your paper to be part of the first European Economic Theory Conference (EETC) on September 19-/20th in Bonn. It will be a yearly theory conference rotating among European departments. Open for everyone, not just from Europe.
Breaking: The Texas Senate has given final approval to Senate Bill 18, which would ban public colleges and universities in Texas from granting tenure starting on Jan. 1. It now heads to the Texas House. #txlege
.@UTAustin’s recent @TikTok ban has frustrated many students who feel that restricting firearms and pushing for campus safety should take precedence over restrictions of social media.
https://t.co/GeuRVJAURi
Join the first #FrontiersInEconomics4Ukraine seminar: Jean Tirole (Toulouse), "Privacy and the control of citizens", Wed 30 Mar, 5-6pm GMT, sign up at https://t.co/BWv6AQbZHj . Upcoming session chairs Myerson, Maskin. @KyivSchool @Mylovanov#EconTwitter
Some good news for JMCs on #EconTwitter. On a quick scrape of the AEA's job listings, the private sector seems to be holding at 90% of last year's listings at this point in time, and nonUS academic jobs are at ~65%.
(Bad news is that US academic jobs at ~35% as bad as expected).
The first coronavirus case in the U.S. and South Korea was detected on the same day. By late January, Seoul had medical companies starting to work on a diagnostic test — one was approved a week later. Today, the U.S. isn’t even close to meeting test demand https://t.co/r49Z9SzZF5