Economics and Public Policy

• The Reading List of Economics
• how autocrats use redistributive messaging to claim democratic legitimacy—and show it can shape public opinion
• Attack When the World Is Not Watching? US News and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• Stanford just surveyed 1,500 workers and AI experts about which jobs AI will actually replace and automate
• Can you guess what happens when you provide temporary financial assistance to those at risk of homelessness?

Education and Psychology

• MIT “Your Brain on ChatGPT”

Gender and Social Impact

• female economics PhD students benefit tremendously from having female economics faculty around
• Have you ever wondered how social networks differ by gender?

Industry and Global Economy

• Industrial policy can affect outcomes either directly by changing an area’s fundamentals, or by coordinating simultaneous investment

Historical and Political Movements

• A thread on the persistence of status
• People think that the share of immigrants in their country is higher than it actually is.
• Flow of ideas: Economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge

Economic Theory and Empirical Evidence

• Using the best methods, the IQ and Income correlation is quite substantial
• Why did U.S. house prices stay so resilient while those in Sweden & Canada saw sharp corrections?
• Chinese firms invest more, are more productive, but earn less profit
• Do higher public debt levels reduce economic growth?
• Is GDP accurate?
• Much of what’s Marxism today is obsessed with the redistribution —through ‘dispossession’ studies

Historical and Political Analysis

• Why do masses support democratic backsliding?
• Why does the state emerge? Is it beneficial? Why are some states stronger than other states?

Countries

• Under Mao, China had a huge illicit shadow market economy—likely equal to at least 5 to 20 percent of reported GDP

Social Sciences

• most Nobel Prize winners are part of one big, incestuous academic network