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A socialist is someone who supports socialism. How do you call someone who supports capitalism?

Shanghai Noon - Wikipedia

Wdym? Chong Wang is John Wayne so perfect casting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangha...

That's a good one

hold on, there are cities that don't look like cities to you and me. they are the otehr kind

Reminds me Poland 1980s. Great stuff.

Well, 2024 was a leap year, so

arc the triomphe for antz

Each voter’s voting weight should equal their age-based remaining life expectancy.

or more

Naked ambition: the groundbreaking photomontages of Zofia Kulik In her complex works, the Polish artist manipulates images of male nudes to comment on masculine power-plays and female emancipation

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Our last talk this calendar year is on Monday, 15 December 2025. We host Bård Harstad (Stanford), who will present new research titled "Political Commitment Bonds" @bardharstad.bsky.social. See abstract in the thread below 👇

A corollary

🎓 Job market season has begun! We're proud to introduce our job market candidates from the University of Southampton. Featured today:

Dingzhi Chen (dzchen19.github.io)

#econjobmarket #econjobcandidate #EconTwitter #AcademicTwitter #econsky

"Brown food is ugly". What?

Double yellow

Join us on Thursday, 30 Oct, for a talk by
💥Hülya Eraslan💥 (Rice) on "Reputation and disagreement in bargaining with imperfect commitment" with Kirill Evdokimov and Mingzi Niu. Panellists: Deepal Basak and Jack Fanning.

NOTE: The US and UK are on different daylight savings schedules this week!

fair

🤔 How does a firm actually know the demand for its product?

Join us today for this talk by Suraj Malladi 👇

well, half

Our next talk is on Thursday, 16 Oct 2025.
👉Suraj Malladi👈 from Northwestern/Kellogg will present "Guarantees in Price Experimentation". The session will feature panellists In-Koo Cho and Karl Schlag.

Nostalgia is such a turn-off

POLECONUK Webinars return soon! On Monday, Oct 20, we open the new academic term with Elaine Yao (University of Washington), presenting “Tactical Choice in Repeated Protests.”

WE ARE BACK!
Our 1st seminar this academic year is next Thursday, Oct/2, 2025. We are extremely pleased to host Qingmin Liu (Columbia), who will present "A Cooperative Analysis of Incomplete Information". Our panellists are Doron Ravid & Roberto Serrano.

✨ Great energy at our department away day! A great start to the year — planning, laughter & well-earned prizes for our colleagues! 👏

Late September update after the summer hiatus. I ponder what "won't last" can mean? A few weeks ago, T disappeared for a few days and people started to speculate... Would this count as "not lasting". I suspect a GOP rebellion or internal war at a certain point. Still 2/3 L and 1/3 M

VSET is back!
Our first talk of the academic year will be held next month, on the first Thursday in October. The full program will be announced soon.

Sorry, this is strawmanning yimby. In what universe does "yes in MY back yard" imply giving decisions to government technocrats?

Yes, except supercharging investment by gov is not what yimby proposes. (And by the way, the quality of the UK housing stock is so appalling, that a huge investment is needed - not by government decree, but happening endogenously thru freeing up planning laws)

With the caveat that the differences within the UK are mostly demand-driven, due to the same planning regime. In the US, these differences are regulation-driven due to different zoning rules across locations.