Cesar A. Hidalgo

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1/ Everyone is thinking in trillions. Some numbers to put $1T in context. One trillion dollars roughly buys: 50 days of the US federal government 1 year of US federal interest on the debt 90 days of Chinese government spending 5 months of gov spending in Germany 6 months of gov spending in France

Los €500M anunciados por la UE para atraer talento a Europa, ¿son comparables con el pago anual del endowment de Harvard o Yale? No, nuestro esfuerzo continental esta al nivel de Ohio State. En esta columna pongo a Choose Europe en contexto y ofrezco unas soluciones. elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

¿Fuga de cerebros en EE UU? La oportunidad de oro que Europa está a punto de desaprovechar

Muchos investigadores en el país norteamericano están más dispuestos que nunca a mudarse. Pero si queremos que consideren venirse, tenemos que ponernos serios

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1. New Working Paper: Optimizing Economic Complexity For more than a decade scholars have been using relatedness-complexity diagrams to identify industrial diversification opportunities. But these diagrams suffer from some important limitations ... 🧵

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1. When you travel for work you see few sights but many faces. You learn directly from people who tell you about the best & worst of their countries. I arrived in Indonesia 🇮🇩 last Saturday …

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Mexico is by far the number one trade partner of the US. It is well integrated into American value chains, especially in electronics and automotive. This year the US imported from Mexico: 🚙 $31B Cars 💻 $28B Computers 🚚 $24B Delivery Trucks /2

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What states and industries will bear the impact of new tariffs on Mexican and Canadian products? Mexico & Canada are key trade partners for the US. They represent 28% of US imports & 33% of US exports. So there is a lot to unpack on this monster thread on trade 🧵👇/1

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New PNAS paper. Historical GDP per capita data is scarce, but data on the places of birth, death, and occupations of famous individuals is abundant. Here we use detailed biographical records to roughly quadruple the historical availability of GDP per capita estimates. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Augmenting the availability of historical GDP per capita estimates through machine learning | PNAS

Can we use data on the biographies of historical figures to estimate the GDP per capita of countries and regions? Here, we introduce a machine lear...

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