@florianederer@paulgp@DataKyle This is exactly the kind of thing that (non-Whig) historians of economics study. I would argue that this paper is a history of economics paper. It’s the kind of thing you’re never going to see in a textbook or a model, and yet what you’ve brought to light affects economics.
@florianederer@paulgp@DataKyle I absolutely love the work you’ve done in this paper. Ironically, it shows why the history of economics matters for economics. Does anyone doubt that the racist and misogynistic views of economists in all the top departments affects the kinds of economics that gets done?
The Industrial Organization Society is pleased to announce a new website and new logo for the IOS and the International Industrial Organization
Conference (IIOC). The new website is: https://t.co/dyFrACL0K1 Please update your bookmarks!
This is a very insightful piece by @mikemakowsky on the anxieties and status competition that, in addition to racism and misogyny, feed EJMR.
Mike offers some useful suggestions on what at a minimum professional associations and journals should do. https://t.co/fXdzBWEPAi
We’re pleased to announce the release of our new WP "Wealth of two nations: The US racial wealth gap, 1860-2020," in which we provide the first continuous time series of white-to-Black per capita wealth ratios over the past 160 years. 1/10
https://t.co/NsBjzJwkNy
@tkirkwhite@florianederer@paulgp@Google Brands can specify which websites they don't want their ads to appear on. In our paper (also presented at NBER SI), we examine the prevalence of advertising on misinformation websites (including econjobrumors) and show how it affects the brands involved. https://t.co/bh7pbyqIy1
@florianederer@paulgp@Google Can anyone on here weigh in on the economics of @Google display ads? In @florianederer slides some of the ads showing up next to racist/sexist posts were from major brands. Can the brands do nothing about that?
@jasonfurman Hey Jason—there's a great Fed Note on this. TLDR census imputes construction spending for non-respondents in a way that underestimates actual numbers when inflation is high, hence constant upward revisions that haven't yet been incorporated in BEA data.
https://t.co/rAietCdbpu
@dhsandler AI chat: fan fiction for everything. Hmm. I wonder if I can get Chat GPT to publish papers citing my papers. It could create the Marvel Comics Universe of the-effects-of-imputation-in-Census-data!
I feel like it’s pretty unusual for economists to burn people as heretics. At least in the last 250 years or so. In fact, I studied history of economic thought in grad school, and I don’t remember reading about a single heretic-burning.
@JosephPolitano@arpitrage@UpdatedPriors In theory a researcher with access to the Census Bureau’s LBD could do this for all employer firms (not just single-units). Would be interesting to see how they compare. Has anyone done this comparison?
I had a great visit to the US Naval Academy Department of Economics yesterday. Katherine Smith,
@skaplan92
, Nayoung Rim, Jacek Rothert, Alex McQuoid, James Harrison, Ashwin Kambhampati and other seminar participants, thanks for your hospitality and thoughtful discussions.
@ianschmutte @Gabors_Data As someone who works at one of the world’s premiere sausage factories, I will attest that sausage factory issues matter a lot in economic data, often more than users of the data would like to admit.