Just out in the New York Times:
My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
I wrote this review for @maxkasy.bsky.social book for the @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/11/ai-i....
Short summary: The objectives encoded in AI systems ultimately mirror the priorities of those who control the “means of prediction”
Cool title for a great book!
Congratulations!
📢 #29FMM Conference (23–25 Oct 2025, Berlin)
We just released the program of this year's FMM conference "Gendering Macroeconomics".
💡Topics: Macroeconomic inequalities, gender gaps, labor markets & globalization...
Do you want to listen to interesting research? Register here: tinyurl.com/y98k5fea
Why we should all be Marxists by Robin Lane Fox. The combination of title and author intrigued me - it’s not the same Marx, but a remote cousin. Still, a great article. Brazil is an amazing place. on.ft.com/4irIjFL Why we should all be Marxists
The legacy of Thatcherism and Blairism: ‘Experts added the fire underscores the need for the government to oversee critical infrastructure in the UK, more of which is privately owned than in any other country worldwide.’ on.ft.com/4bMPRAl
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
🗣️ EVENT: Join us at CLaSP on 13 March for a dialogue between two leading scholars of the global fossil fuel economy - Alice Mah & Adam Hanieh - on 'Petrochemical Transitions'. Register for a free ticket:
www.claspblog.org/events/petro...
28th Annual Workshop on Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents call for papers extension until 23/3!
www.qmul.ac.uk/sbm/research...
Check out this very interesting event from a research unit at Queen Mary with the coolest name ever.
One key takeaway message is that global social justice is not only important from a normative viewpoint but is actually a necessary condition for high and sustained levels of global climate action.
The bad news are that when we bring the model in the data, we find that the current trend of increasing global climate action will likely halt in the next years. For high levels of climate action peer pressure is key and also low heterogeneity across countries' ability to act.
Check out our paper with Giorgio Ricchiuti and Ben Tippet on Heterogeneity and Climate Action. This reformulated model builds on our previous work studying the dynamics of the global political economy of climate action warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
(1/2)⏳Only 3 days to go! Join me this Monday (Feb 10) for a lunch seminar session on #atlasoffinance, co-organized by
www.kuleuven.be/lusi & urbanstudies.brussels
📍QDV Quadrivium, Heverlee
⏰12:00
🔗Details: atlasoffinance.com/events/
‘Hours after the judge’s decision, 25-year-old coder Marko Elez, who was working for Doge at the Treasury, abruptly resigned after apparently racist comments from a dormant social media account were unearthed. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the social media posts.’ on.ft.com/40Hkv94
Trump claims he’s on the side of the working class. Really?
A reminder of how incredibly fluid politics was in 2019: The day Dominic Cummings offered to make Jeremy Corbyn PM www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
What’s happening in the US: youtube.com/watch?v=mL0c...
I have never seen anyone flip as quickly as Robert F. Kennedy did on the question of whether a woman has the right to control her own body.
Registration fee includes:
- admission to all sessions
- one year membership to the Society for Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents
- Welcome BBQ on Monday after sessions
- Sitting dinner on Tuesday after sessions
- 2 lunches, on Tuesday and Wednesday
- coffee breaks
Fee for regular participants: : £265
Fee for currently enrolled (PhD) students: £180
Participants from Low Income Countries : £130
Deadline for submissions: 7 March 2025
CfP: 28th Workshop in Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents @qmul.ac.uk with a great lineup of invited speakers:
Antonio Cabrales, @maxkasy.bsky.social, Lllia Maliar, Friederike Mengel, Peter Skott, @mtsvetkova.bsky.social and Arzu Uluc.
www.qmul.ac.uk/sbm/research...
The Trump Administration’s action to suspend all federal grants & loans will have a devastating impact on the health and well-being of millions of children, seniors on fixed incomes, and the most vulnerable people in our country.
It is a dangerous move towards authoritarianism.
