Next was a timely conversation with @m_clem on the role of immigration in the US economy and the likely impact of recent moves by the current administration at the Peterson Institute for International Economics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnlNHa8fETI (9/12) #economics #US #immigration

Although tariffs, tax cuts and deregulation could boost the US economy in the short term, it could set the scene for an inflationary boom followed by a bust.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cglyynp44g4o

How does Venezuela's dictator remain in power after his massive electoral loss, and why does he paradoxically support transparent vote-counting technology?

Political scientists Javier Corrales and Dorothy Kronick explain, clearly and authoritatively—>

https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jod.2025.a947882

I'm honored to be elected to the editorial board of my favorite academic journal, the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

And excited to work with so many people I deeply admire at
@aeajournals —> https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/jep/editors

Inside you are two pulp comic art wolves

PSA: The nazis are targetting wikipedia's authors. The torches are nearing New Alexandria's library.

Got 100GB free? Use this app to back wikipedia up. Keep it safe. Foundation is no longer fiction:

https://kiwix.org/en/

If you're still wondering what happened to all the people in your life who seemed to have been hacked by the internet, a decent case study is Edgar Maddison Welch, pizzagate avenger and cop victim.

https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/the-ballad-of-edgar-maddison-welch

A fantastic opportunity for PhD students or early-career faculty who study the economics of productivity

Especially R&D 🔬, immigration ✈️, infrastructure 🌉

I'm honored to be involved in these new NBER/Sloan Foundation fellowships—> https://www.nber.org/graduate-fellowships-fiscal-and-economic-effects-innovation-and-productivity-policies

In İzmir, Turkey there is a monument to the idea of an independent judiciary

It was erected in 2006 to celebrate institutions increasingly under threat from authoritarian corruption & violence

At some silent point, in 21 years of dictatorship, it became a tombstone

https://maps.app.goo.gl/PP7aMxDBHc16fs5N9

🗣️ Call for papers: 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of #migration

May 22–23 in Madrid

Keynotes by the brilliant @leah_boustan &
Dean Yang

Submissions due January 26th —> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfIZoPeewBmYnTHiy_D5O1iSGlR34criN3WjcJ3SYNbbyWt2g/viewform

New blogpost:
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-i-have-resigned-from-royal-society.html

"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."

Nadine Gordimer (born #OTD in 1923) was a South African writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Gordimer

#books #literature

Dec. 2 in Washington:

2nd World Bank-GWU-UVA Conference on “The Economics of Sustainable Development”

https://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2024/10/21/economics-of-sustainable-development#2

@briz Thank you so much. I wasn't involved in that book but I find it a unique and very creative way to spur people to consider a different paradigm

@markigra I don't see any check or balance on what they could do. Congress has determined that responsibility for the attack on the Capitol is acceptable. The Supreme Court declared *absolute* immunity for any act somehow deemed "official", whatever that is, and declared that armed insurrection against the White House does not disqualify a person from the White House. The voting public agrees. Would any of the above restrain actions against *immigrants*, to any degree? I cannot see it.

In 10 weeks begins a vast expulsion of US immigrants—with and without lawful immigration status.

Native workers can expect fewer jobs and higher inflation.

I talked with the phenomenal @SoumayaKeynes of the @financialtimes for this 30min podcast —> https://www.ft.com/content/b35bb6a7-6229-426e-9a0b-8cdc74d334cc

By Bruce Eric Kaplan

A propos of nothing: “Who goes Nazi?”

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

Observant essay on American high society 1941.

Die Massendeportationen in den Vereinigten Staaten werden als Maßnahmen gegen undokumentierte Migranten dargestellt.

In Wirklichkeit handelt es sich jedoch um eine militärische Aktion gegen Millionen US-Bürger, sagte ich zu @FAZNET —>

https://zeitung.faz.net/faz/wirtschaft/2024-11-04/0f404d9d43f9a26ce9d2269520913e5c/?GEPC=s3

How does immigration affect US workers?

This piece in @TheAtlantic by Rogé Karma was crafted through months of consultation with some of the top academics in the field. It offers an accessible summary of where the research frontier is now.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/immigration-working-class-wages/680128/