You can write a whole PhD dissertation about this short clip. 🤯

Please share: we are looking for a part- or full-time RA (master or PhD) for projects on the drivers and effects of national election outcomes with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet.
Flexible location and start date. Pls send a short email and CV at [email protected] if interested!

Multiple academic roles open with us at UNSW Law & Justice - in a variety of areas. Very happy to speak with anyone interested. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5247…

New publication: Primer about Ranked-Choice Voting coauthored with Andy Eggers (effectivegov.uchicago.edu/primers/ranked…). Part of the Democracy Reform Primer Series of the Center for Effective Government at UChicago.

But it’s the immigrants who are to blame for high house prices

Featured in the latest Bulletin on Entrepreneurship: 'Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurs' Choice of Startup Location'
nber.org/be/20241/immig…

Democracy for a sustainable and inclusive growth.
AND
Inclusive growth for a sustainable and resilient democracy.

This could almost be the motto of our UNSW Economics Resilient Democracy Lab.

Why is there so much distrust in democratic institutions?

My job market paper shows that the policymaking of parliaments in Europe differs strongly and systematically from voters' policy attitudes. Less well-represented voters are less likely to trust democratic institutions.

Free entry when barriers to entry are eliminated

Here is my, quite bleak, take on 'The Future of Social Democracy: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

It's important to remember that the student protests didn't come from nowhere. It's also important to remember that far too few university admins actually stand up for classical liberalism anymore.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

🇮🇹 LIBERTÀ 🇮🇹
As Italians today we celebrate our liberty. We remember the sacrifice of those who fought the fascist barbarity. We mourn our ancestors who endured immense sufferings so that we could live free from fear. (1/6)

1st Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) in Montreal on October 25-26 this fall!

I co-organize with Caroline Le Pennec-Çaldichoury and Cevat Giray Aksoy and it will be great.

Send your papers before June 21: shorturl.at/fhizZ

See you in Montreal this year (and in London next)!

Posting this fascinating The Review of Economic Studies paper by Gabriele Gratton, Richard Holden, and Kolotilin for, well, obvious reasons #AfD #Krah #MoreToCome
academic.oup.com/restud/article…

a periodic reminder that Science and Nature do a terrible job of handling economics

UNPOPULAR (I guess) OPINION:

Page limits on journal submissions are just another gate for those who can't routinely meet and discuss their work with referees and editors.

Important piece on the FT today ft.com/content/58b9ad…

Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy by Marc S. Jacob is now available in Early View. ajps.org/2024/04/17/cit…

The populist dynamic: Experimental evidence on the effects of countering populism cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… via CEPR with Tommaso Nannicini vincenzo galasso and Massimo Morelli

Another 14 this week… crazy. Who wants some tomorrow? ⁦Federico Masera⁩ ⁦Anton Kolotilin⁩ ⁦Richard Holden⁩ ⁦مشهور⁩ ⁦Hongyi Li⁩ ⁦early modern boy-actress (they/them)⁩