Missed opportunity

This is the perfect way to put it

Congratulations to Botond Kőszegi for being appointed as AER coeditor, handling papers in theory, behavioral, and experimental econ. His term will start on January 1, ‘27. I’m delighted to have him on our team. @aeajournals.bsky.social #EconSky

Literally

Can somebody explain why Outlook is a good choice for space communications?

This one wins April 1st

AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history | TechSpot share.google/7exg4JrL5bW2...

Controversial take: the Italian national soccer team doesn't take the World Cup very seriously

Apple II Forever! Apple would never have survived a decade without Steve Wozniak’s marvelous machine.

Really honored to be asked by The Verge to write a couple of pieces about Apple at 50. Here's the first one, about the computer that made Apple a success long before the Mac: The Apple II.

FWIW as an economist, I do not feel represented by anyone making this sort of claim

Duolingo shares up

"Accidental"...

Guilty as charged :-)

She's great BTW. And she's also on tour!

multitasking

I always had a deep personal connection with The Onion

It was a lot of fun! Basically, ET for science nerds (i.e., most of us here)

Gemini (Fast) gave me this.

...or Gemini (Fast). I was lazy so I just cut and pasted the top portion of the picture. At first, it said no, but then it self-corrected and said, yes, actually there are two PSNEs. Here's the very interesting reply:

gemini.google.com/share/6fb734...

First it was Halloween - it's now all the rage in my native country. Now this. What's next, Thanksgiving to become an Italian national holiday?

Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011 was awarded jointly to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims "for their empirical research on cause and effect in th...

So weird: there's more than one scammy memorial site inviting donations or tree-planting in my dad's memory.
We are not asking for that, but if people feel moved, donations in lieu of flowers to www.aclu-mn.org, www.aclu.org, or www.eff.org
Econ folks, can you help get the word out?

Ouch

@ourworldindata.org never disappoints

What could possibly go wrong

Hard to believe "Anthropic" and "principled" would belong in the same sentence, and yet here we are

Except it's not Little Pharma, it's Little "Pharma"

Two books side by side: "What they teach you at Harvard Business School" and "What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School"

Reminds me of this evergreen

This not to discount the relevance of psychology and sociology, to be clear! Just making the point that economics also has a lot to say on the subject.

Market Institutions and Price Discovery ‘Charles R. Plott has a formidable armoury of experience backed up with an inquiring and rigorous intellect: an economist interested in getting clear answers to important questions. Before effectively...

There are plenty of papers in economics (published in refereed journals) dealing with behavioral aspects of risk-taking, as well as market experiments. E.g. Look up Charlie Plott at Caltech, who literally wrote the book on "Market institutions and price discovery" www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/mar...

There is a huge literature on insider trading in economics, not to mention market design (paging @alroth.bsky.social). But, just because a popular website has "market" in its name doesn't mean that serious economists were directly involved in its design.

This is what I fear the most every time I write a decision letter 🙂

...not to mention "Reasoning about Knowledge"