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Pre-doc opening:

Come work with @harvardrte.bsky.social on research about place-based policies, industrial policy, and local labor markets with Gordon Hanson, @drodrik.bsky.social, and the rest of our great team!

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Here’s a Harvard student with more courage than the University President www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... via @annaekstrom.bsky.social

The “laboratories of undemocracy” in US states (h/t @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) continue to show us what competitive authoritarianism will look like in the US. There will continue to be elections, but the opposition is prevented from winning through putatively legal means.

A quick primer on tariffs, from someone who has written a textbook on international trade

By reducing competition

Note to Columbia University:

This is how you do it.

www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

Yep

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:

Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

What the fuck

This level of explicit, out-in-the-open corruption is hard to find even in developing countries.

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.

The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

This guy has the understanding of democracy of an 11-year-old, who’s watched some videos in his social studies class in elementary school.

Compensation of Top Executives: Determinants and Consequences Conference

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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.