PRO: Raises total number of countries Americans can name to respectable nine CON: May have to come up with a reason for doing so

Pros And Cons Of War With Venezuela theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-war-wit...

Please join us on 20/Nov to hear Marina Halac (Yale) present "Agreeing to Implement", a joint work with Elliot Lipnowski and Doron Ravid. Panellists: Matteo Camboni and Sam Kapon.
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I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.

Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.

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Economists claiming to be the first to study a topic be like

It is great to be part of SICSS (Summer Institute in Computational Social Science) Penn 2025, which brings together researchers from various fields. If you are a PhD student or a young faculty attending, please reach out before or after the events.

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RFK Jr.: Vaccines No More Effective Than Drinking Horseshoe Crab Blood Straight WASHINGTON—Citing extensive research he had conducted on the matter, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a statement Friday claiming that vaccines were no more effective than drinking horseshoe crab blood straight. “Despite the lofty promises of pharmaceutical companies, there’s simply no evidence to suggest that vaccines provide more immunological benefit than […]

“Despite the lofty promises of pharmaceutical companies, there’s simply no evidence to suggest that vaccines provide more immunological benefit than punching a few holes in a horseshoe crab’s carapace and slurping its blood directly,” said Kennedy theonion.com/rfk-jr-...

Good news in the latest inflation report.

The total CPI rose only 0.1% over the month, and 2.4% over the year.

"Core" CPI also rose only 0.1% last month, and is up 2.8% over the year.

Inflation's not back to where we want it, but these data are better than Wall St expected.

Recession Forecasts Jump After Herds Of Panicked Economists Start Running Off Cliffs

Recession Forecasts Jump After Herds Of Panicked Economists Start Running Off Cliffs theonion.com/recessi...

I agree with Justin's sentiment, but cicadas are a bad benchmark: they usually live for 13 or 17 years if they are periodical...

State Department Designates WNBA As Terrorist Organization WASHINGTON—Promising to stamp out the extremist movement as well as its sympathizers, the U.S. State Department announced Thursday that the WNBA had been designated as a terrorist organization. According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the organization has as many as 156 terrorists spread across 13 known cells in the United States, and several of […]

State Department Designates WNBA As Terrorist Organization
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There's a lotta concern about the short run (ie recession or not) implications of Trump's agenda. Dani is right to point to the long run as far far more consequential.

Elon Musk Announces Plans To Step Back From Fatherhood AUSTIN, TX—Proclaiming that he had “done enough,” billionaire Elon Musk confirmed Thursday that he would be taking a step back from fatherhood. “I’ve accomplished all I really intended to accomplish as a father—spreading my seed, preserving my bloodline—and now I can spend more time focusing on other things,” said Musk, who told reporters that after […]

“I’ve accomplished all I really intended to accomplish as a father—spreading my seed, preserving my bloodline—and now I can spend more time focusing on other things,” said Elon Musk theonion.com/elon-mu...

Recently accepted to #REStud, "Retractions: Updating from Complex Information," from Gonçalves, Libgober, and Willis:

www.restud.com/retractions-...

#EconSky #Complexity

Contracting for Coordination Abstract. A principal contracts with agents to achieve coordination. Multiple equilibria can in general arise under given contract offers, and the principa

Forthcoming article by Marina Halac "Contracting for Coordination" @eeanews.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

Thanks to all of our thoughtful speakers, attendees, keynote Jon Skinner @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social, co-organizer @profnoto.bsky.social, and the amazing @beckerfriedman.bsky.social staff for an outstanding conference!

A strictly conclave cardinal ordering

I'm looking for recent papers applying mechanism design to AI/ML. I'm most interested in tools from mechanism design that help solve problems in designing and evaluating AI systems. If you think it fits, please share!

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People then react to that uncertainty the same way they react to uncertainty in experiments. So the causality DAG is

"complexity"-> uncertainty,

rather than

uncertainty -> "complexity",

as Oprea suggests.

It talks about evaluations, but actually shows that hard to evaluate decisions (many call complexity, but I disagree with that terminology) can lead one to mentally represent a problem as having uncertainty.

I think an interesting point is hidden in this paper:

paolamoscariello.github.io/Files/Cautio...

The Economist cover 👀

WE ARE BACK next week!!! On Thursday, 24 April 2025, Alexander Wolitzky (MIT) will present "Marginal Reputation" (joint work with Daniel Luo). Our guest panellists: Jeff Ely and Elliot Lipnowski. Share the news! @jeffely.bsky.social @elliotlip.bsky.social

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Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing WASHINGTON—Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation’s aquariums to commercia...

“Starting today, fishermen will finally be allowed to sail into America’s protected aquariums, drop a net in any marine exhibit they please, and begin trawling,” Trump said at a press conference

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🚨 Excited to share a new paper just out in Journal of Economic Theory: "Bidding in Multi-Unit Auctions Under Limited Information" by @B_Kasberger & Kyle Woodward.
What happens when bidders in multi-unit auctions don’t know what others might bid? Let's break down our approach 👇 #EconSky

Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’   WASHINGTON—Staunchly defending his decision to share sensitive military data in messages to his wife, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Monday, “There are no state secrets in a healthy relationship.” “Communication is key in every strong marriage, and that includes communication about airstrikes on foreign adversaries,” said the Pentagon chief, who called the mere idea […]

“Communication is key in every strong marriage, and that includes communication about airstrikes on foreign adversaries,” said the Pentagon chief, who called the mere idea of withholding classified information from one’s spouse “toxic” and “unhealthy.” theonion.com/pete-he...

a picture of a man whispering into George W. Bush's ear. Bush looks surprised. "Sir, a second signal chat has just been leaked."

Just putting this here so we can use it when it happens.

Tell that to the Easter bunny.