Looks very interesting: academic.oup.com/qje/advance-ar…

Confused & dismayed about what is going on at Columbia? If you read just two things make it these
Blistering and brilliant editorial by Columbia Daily Spectator
columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…
On norm breaking by the admin by Prof David Pozen (Law)
balkin.blogspot.com/2024/04/norm-b…

The history of crop domestication/innovation is pretty wild — we literally owe everything from the state, to the 20th century end of famine, to abundant/cheap strawberries to it…

For those living in Washington, a 2024 India election event featuring Sumitra Badrinathan, Gilles Verniers and others at AU School of International Service on Thursday, April 18: eventbrite.com/e/decoding-ind…

Giving a seminar on 'books vs articles' to our graduate students with two contrasting examples:

Exhibit A (in favor of books): The book (60,000 cites) vs the article version (200 cites) of 'Making Democracy Work'

Exhibit B (in favor of articles): Bob Solow on papers vs tomes

In my experience trying to report coefficients “without stars” this almost every time results in reviewers fixating on this as a criticism, sometimes dinging paper, no matter how much I contextualize, talk abt magnitudes/ theoretically expected directions, etc…

Economic Country
historians singers

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The first annual **Historical Political Economy Conference** will be held USC on either Oct 18-19 or 19-20, 2024

Co-organized by Dr. Allison Spencer Hartnett and myself

Paper proposal deadline: May 1

Google form for participation (paper/discussant/attendee) on NEXT slide in thread below.

'As I finished my PhD thesis, I realized that the thesis had actually narrowed my intellectual lens to the point where I had become, if anything, a little stupider than when I began.'
James C. Scott, 2024
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast

What an unexpected lift in the spirits of democracy supporters in Turkey (and worldwide)! While the results are not directly comparable to 2023 presidential election due to a drop in participation (a still high 77% vs 87%), the victory of the opposition is clear.

how/why the social science left became “anti-math” is a perpetual mystery to me….at one point in time approaches like analytic marxism were quite normal but the space for that today seems quite small

A terrific essay: academic.oup.com/past/advance-a…

SCOOP: the Māori King and other Indigenous leaders will gather tomorrow to sign a treaty recognizing whales as legal persons.

the movement is rooted in the Māori worldview, which sees whales as ancestors, one Māori conservationist writes for Atmos: atmos.earth/a-descendants-…

REALLY stoked about this! Will be really fun!

(And keep an eye out soon for an announcement from me about an annual HPE conference, to begin in 2024 in the third week of October. At USC.)

🚨 forthcoming Journal of Politics @[email protected]: super excited that the 1st paper on project with Alyssa René Heinze & Rachel E. Brule is now accepted.

We show that inequality does not stop at the gate of political office: Indian women face large inequalities in voice & centrality AFTER they reach office 1/n

Looks v interesting

What is the meaning of Kejriwal's arrest for India's elections and democracy? I discuss the move towards opposition-mukt democracy
indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

Universities are funny. Hey what if we took a medieval institution for training priests and aristocrats and combined it w a hedge fund, sports franchise and resort for teenagers

Oh and it'll be the backbone for fundamental research for our entire civilization

my perspective on India's job guarantee has changed as I've learned from a decade of work with Karthik Muralidharan and Sandip Sukhtankar. we discuss here

hindustantimes.com/columns/streng…