Bart Lipman
@bartlipman.bsky.social
Economist, husband, father, aging basketball player, not necessarily in that order. Finding too many ways to be busy.
⭐️ FEATURED FELLOW ⭐️ Professor Richard Holden UNSW “Cognitive economics...is about “getting inside” people’s heads to rebuild economics by understanding the limit of human computational capacity and the individual reasoning process". Read more:https://bit.ly/4wRGMzC @profholden.bsky.social
There could be nothing more pro-Israel than actively opposing a regime that has turned the country into an anti-democratic rogue state, a serial violator of international law and that therefore is destroying its standing and relationships with vital allies.
I love LeBron but am hoping this turns out just as well as when Gary Payton and Karl Malone went to the Lakers at the end of their careers
Kurt Helin@basketballtalk.bsky.social · 2w agoLeBron James chooses Philadelphia, will join team on two-year, $8 million deal LeBron said from the start this was about winning and he backed it up with this decision, the 76ers are true title contenders. www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/leb...
I'm so grateful to the colleagues who have been willing to read my forthcoming book How Economics Discovered Women in advance (#4).
Federal prosecutors had a strong criminal case against Senator Jim Justice’s coal companies for thousands of alleged violations, including dumping arsenic into drinking water. Then Trump's DOJ shut it down.
When I fell asleep at the Garden, the Knicks were Winning. Then when I wake up, I see the Spurs have "won." It seems that in the 4th Quarter, the so-called referees kept "finding" Points for the Spurs. Rigged! Fake Game! by Donald J. Trump
“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”
Auburn Board Takes Curricular Control, Dissolves Senate
The policies mirror the directives laid out in HB 580, which doesn’t take effect until October and doesn’t apply to the institution.
insidehighered.com
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo agoIt’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.
This is North Korea level bullshit, and a total fucking disaster for science and for the United States alike. It doesn't matter whether it fails to pass; this kind of thinking is already penetrating NIH, NSF, NASA, etc and causing severe harm. NASEM, AAAS, AAUP, etc must condemn unequivocally.
Lawmakers propose banning all U.S.-Chinese research collaborations
Critics say bill would weaken U.S. science by cutting flows of ideas and talent
science.org
Trump Boasts Annual Physical Turned Up No Signs Of Pedophilia https://theonion.com/trump-boasts-annual-physical-turned-up-no-signs-of-pedophilia/
5 rules of writing: 1. The reader can only read your words, not your mind. 2. Never make the reader work. 3. The reader is always right. 4. The reader has many other choices. 5. You have (at most) two paragraphs to keep the reader.
Anger over Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund has risen so high that Senate Republicans are now considering the once unthinkable step of sending the president a sternly-worded letter.
Why do people think streaks are unlikely? This paper develops a formal account of a belief in mean reversion and shows how it can generate some of the core implications of the Law of Small Numbers www.econometricsociety.org/publications...
Reminder that the Easy Peasy deadline is this coming Monday AoE! Please submit your simple, elegant results!
Kira Goldner@kiragoldner.bsky.social · 4mo agoSubmission deadline is May 4, 2026. Full Call for Papers available on our website. Submit your "right way to do it" results! Co-organized with @divyarthi.bsky.social and Taylor Lundy.
Manager pay and pay inequality have increased substantially since the 1980s. Manager pay reflect that managers increase the firm’s productivity which in turn affects market power. New paper by Eeckhout, Bao, and De Loecker www.restud.com/manager-pay-... #REStud #EconSky
In auctions for income-generating assets such as intellectual property licenses, the revenue-maximizing mechanism combines upfront payments and royalties: higher bidders pay more upfront and face lower royalty caps www.econometricsociety.org/publications...
This is absolutely fantastic. ht: @maddenifico.bsky.social