Economist. Researching Institutions, Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Inequality. MPhil Student, on leave from @OxfordEconDept, MSc @LseEcHist (RT!=E)
Vermont/Oxford
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Not quite 20k, but close enough: A short thread explaining the intuition behind my working paper on patent disclosure norms and why inventors in eighteenth-century Britain came to disclose detailed descriptions of their inventions under conditions of selective patent enforcement.
At 20,000 followers I will reveal a model that explains innovator incentives under incomplete intellectual property rights and demonstrate how legal-institutional arrangements may have contributed to the Industrial Revolution
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Macro professors everywhere are struggling with the reality that most students do not in fact โremember 2008โ
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Iโm a bit surprised by the number of seemingly sensible people that fell for the โchange my mindโ pretense of campus political debates and imagine these events as some kind of good-faith forum for engaging with different political views
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Getting banned from the family Catan game for trying to write resource futures contracts into the house rules
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>Major political figure accused of plagiarism in their thesis
>Look at examples of plagiarism
>Common technical phrases and definitions
Is it bad faith or just a complete lack of familiarity with economic research?
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Carney faces plagiarism accusations for 1995 Oxford doctoral thesis nationalpost.com/news/mark-cโฆ
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โSorry I canโt make it Iโve already got plansโ
The โplansโ in question:
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Recently discovered evidence that I am planning to do an industrial revolution:
Oh...oh dear.
The NYPD has found...the @OUPAcademic Oxford Very Short Introduction series.
I wonder if he thinks the Antisemitism is also a how-to book.
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my latest investigation for @ConsumerReports is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day โ some by more than 10 times !
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Man itโs so cool living in Central London
Wanna go to The City? 40 minutes
Wanna go to the pub? 40 minutes
Wanna go to the airport? 40 minutes
Wanna visit a friend in zone 1? 40 minutes
Wanna visit a friend in zone 4? 40 minutes
Wanna go to the countryside? 40 minutes
Man itโs so cool living in New Jersey
Wanna go to NYC? One hour
Wanna go to Philadelphia? One hour
Wanna go to the beach? One hour
Wanna go skiing in the mountains? One hour
Wanna go ride roller coasters? One hour
Wanna go see a show or concert? One hour
I love it here man
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I was eight when Lehman Brothers went under, so letโs assume my memory is a little hazy
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Nobody hosts these kinds of campus 'debate' events in good faith; theyโre designed to manufacture outrage and attract attention. It's just about making provocative comments to stir controversy and get publicity, then clip farming the dumb 18-year-olds that come to argue for internet clout and fundraising. It's a truly impoverished state of political disagreement if this sort of spectacle passes for discourse.
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Any president can crash the economy in the short run but it takes a real visionary to hopelessly depress the economic outlook for decades
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You mean to tell me that the emerging techno-libertarian and national-corporatist coalition is breaking down over something as minor as their fundamentally irreconcilable political interests?
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In another embarrassing gaffe, Biden has confused Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) with Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2002)
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In case anyone was worried about the Popeโs position on the use of Bayesian inference in theistic probability
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Me developing a theory: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me having to prove that theory empirically: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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Incredible
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Some of you need to give this a quick read before you tweet about public policy
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Thinking about that one school that rejected me from their PhD program, asked if I wanted to be considered for their master's program and then also rejected me from their master's program
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You know data science isnโt even my job
And it is NOT econometrics which is a common misconception
Actually my job โฆ is just โฆ R
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After a brutal application cycle I am disappointed to say I was rejected from every PhD program I applied to, BUT the silver lining is that I will be accepting my offer from Oxford University to begin an MPhil in Economics this fall!
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My controversial "first econ reads" are the three books that sparked my interest in economics in the first place. - Acemoglu & Robinson, Why Nations Fail (2012)
- Studwell, How Asia Works (2013)
- Chang, Bad Samaritans (2007)
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Nvidiaโs Jensen Huang says China โwill winโ AI race with US on.ft.com/4ojd9TM
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US economic indicators not looking good, if the trend continues we could be looking at 1.1% real GDP growth and 3.8% CPI, a stagflationary nightmare best described as the โ2025 UK forecastโ
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No greater intradisciplinary divide than economics (liberal arts) and economics (business school)
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The thing to remember about the Greater Boston Area is that it is effectively the largest and wealthiest college town in the US. A deep-blue high-education low-crime city where growth doesn't matter because it's only rivals in terms of income are the Bay Area and NYC suburbs
Serious question: Why is Michelle Wu so popular? Boston has a ton of the problems that normally make a big-city mayor unpopular โ unaffordability, a lack of meaningful industry growth, stagnation of housing development. She never seems to get blamed for any of it though.
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I would not consider these examples of plagiarism because economists write for clarity and use common terms and phrases with precise meanings to convey complex ideas. There really isn't much room for creative writing in technical economic research
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I'm not that far out of undergrad, and in my capacity as president of the political science society at a fairly large university, I dealt with moderating actual debates and collaborating with political clubs and organisations on campus like College Dems, Reps, DSA, TPUSA, YAF, etc. Having attended and co-hosted many substantive events across the political spectrum, yes, I can say these kinds of debates and this brand of guest speaker in particular are pure spectacle and cheap point-scoring. Anyone with experience in this ecosystem will tell you the same.
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Terrible day for economists that misinterpreted the moniker โChicago Popeโ
"Pseudo-scientific data are invoked to support the claim that a free market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."
--Pope Leo XIV, Dilexi Te.
Direct rebuke to those, like the Acton Institute, who boost free-market fundamentalism as compatible with the Faith.
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Not good enough at writing to be a historian
Not good enough at math to be an economist
Just good enough at both to be annoying about institutions online
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Living in London for a year I never really experienced much of a culture shock and kind of assumed that life in the US and UK is generally pretty similar. After about a month living in Oxford I now know this is absolutely not the case
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MBA girlfriend introduces me to her colleagues as โmy quantโ (they are all even worse at math than I am)
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On this momentous day for institutions, I want to take some time to discuss two important questions; what is an "institution"? and what does it mean to say "institutions are significant and endogenous"?
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I canโt believe they published an Oxford handbook about the consequences of buying a full price Oxford handbook
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Doing economics should be an almost philosophical pursuit to interpret meaning and structure, or at least thatโs what I tell myself since I spend most of my time cleaning and merging datasets
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Doing economics has made me actively worse at debating because it turns out most people donโt find โactually itโs complicatedโ to be an especially compelling argument
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"I have found out what economics is; it is the science of confusing stocks with flows.โ
-Michal Kalecki
Nvidia is now 16% of U.S. GDP.
Community note
NVIDIA's revenue of $165 B in an economy of $30 T would make it about 0.6% of GDP.
macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/โฆ
datatopics.worldbank.org/world-developmโฆ
calculator.ne
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