Maximilian Kasy
@maxkasy.bsky.social
Econ prof at Oxford. Machine learning, politics, econometrics, inequality, random reading recs. maxkasy.github.io/home/
Great interview with @triofrancos.bsky.social on the geopolitics of the renewable energy transition:
Thea Riofrancos, The New World Climate Order, NLR 159, May–June 2026
An interview about the new parameters of climate politics, with the breakdown of global consensus. As the EU re-opens coal-fired plants and the US shuts down wind farms, China gouges the earth to…
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Winning at all levels, growth rate, foreign policy, immigration policy, energy policy, list is long
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3w agoa truly masterful performance by Spain. actually what peak performance looks like
A guide for economists writing a literature review who want to summarize evidence, incorporate covariates, and adjust for selectivity, from Peter Ganong, Avik Garg, and Maximilian Kasy www.nber.org/papers/w35403
New paper with @p_ganong & Avik Garg: From literature review to effect prediction for a new context - allowing for effect heterogeneity & publication bias. maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
Reading rec: "Political Aspects of Full Employment" Intriguing 1943 essay by Michał Kalecki mronline.org/2010/05/22/p... Reasons of business opposition to full employment: It would 1/2
Political Aspects of Full Employment - MR Online
This essay was first published in Political Quarterly in 1943; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. A shorter version of this essay was published in The Last Phase in the…
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New paper with @p_ganong & Avik Garg: From literature review to effect prediction for a new context - allowing for effect heterogeneity & publication bias. maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
In „The Means of Prediction” wirft @maxkasy.bsky.social einen kritischen Blick auf Machtfragen rund um KI. @sberg.bsky.social und @annkoster.bsky.social haben das Buch gelesen und setzen es in ihrem Literaturessay zu anderen Debattenbeiträgen ins Verhältnis. www.soziopolis.de/its-the-obje...
Chapters 1–4 out now! Understanding our Economy, CORE's textbook for beginners and students at two-year and four-year colleges and universities in North America, is online. Covers the environment, climate, inequality, cost of living & more. Read it free: books.core-econ.org/understandin...
Why does Elon Musk stoke racist violence and pogroms, and what are the parallels to 19th century Russia? Thoughtful essay worth reading: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?
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Why does Elon Musk stoke racist violence and pogroms, and what are the parallels to 19th century Russia? Thoughtful essay worth reading: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?
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So, naive question about these campuses that pay OpenAI $13mil/yr. Why don’t they pour that money into a cluster running the strongest available open-weight model, with API and interactive options. And if the answer is “overhead,” why aren’t we collaborating?
Last day of frontier talks!
Maximilian Kasy@maxkasy.bsky.social · 3mo ago📆 Only 2 weeks to go until our workshop!!! 📆 "AI and the political economy of information filtering" maxkasy.github.io/home/informa... Open to all; register for partcipation (online/in-person) here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
1/n Verena Halsmayer giving the Blanqui lecture on the history of the Solow model, based on her wonderful book www.cambridge.org/core/books/m... #eshethes2026 Key insights:
"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...
Who Died When Elon Musk Killed USAID? - The American Prospect
Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.
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Das lange Warten hat ein Ende: 30 Jahre nach der letzten Auflage ist das neue„Handbuch Rechtsextremismus in Österreich“ seit heute erhältlich. Den Band gibt es in der Buchhandlung Ihres Vertrauens oder direkt beim Verlag des @falter.at: shop.falter.at/handbuch-rec...
📆 Only 2 weeks to go until our workshop!!! 📆 "AI and the political economy of information filtering" maxkasy.github.io/home/informa... Open to all; register for partcipation (online/in-person) here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
What can flight data tell us about deportation flights, and where are the limits of public information? On Thursday @gillianbrockell.com guides us through the aviation data, public records, and open-source techniques used to follow immigration operations in the skies. discord.gg/bellingcat?e...
Ce soir, présentation de @maxkasy.bsky.social à @crestumr.bsky.social pour son livre - The means of prediction - ça parle du contrôle démocratique de l’ia (entre autre). Discuté par @eollion.bsky.social qui pose la question : doit on réguler l’IA ou le capitalisme ?
Insightful interview on Iran on the eve of the recent invasion: newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...
Ervand Abrahamian, Iran Under Fire, NLR 157, January–February 2026
One of modern Iran’s leading historians provides a critical anatomy of the power structures of the Islamic Republic, on the eve of war—and a scathing denunciation of the long-incubated…
newleftreview.org
🚨 New paper (with @elizabethlinos.bsky.social and @ProfSanaz) 🚨 "Causal Inference for Social Network Formation" Leveraging random initial ties + panel observation to recover causal effects of indirect ties, degree, and density on who connects. maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
Insightful interview on Iran on the eve of the recent invasion: newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...
Ervand Abrahamian, Iran Under Fire, NLR 157, January–February 2026
One of modern Iran’s leading historians provides a critical anatomy of the power structures of the Islamic Republic, on the eve of war—and a scathing denunciation of the long-incubated…
newleftreview.org
🚨 New paper (with @elizabethlinos.bsky.social and @ProfSanaz) 🚨 "Causal Inference for Social Network Formation" Leveraging random initial ties + panel observation to recover causal effects of indirect ties, degree, and density on who connects. maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
Barry Eichengreen kindly reviewed "The Means of Prediction" in @foreignaffairs.com (May/June 2026) — "a clear and concise explanation of how AI works": 🔗 foreignaffairs.com/reviews/means-prediction-how-ai-really-works-and-who-benefits
I coded up an open-source, not-for-profit AI paper reviewer that rivals the performance of @reviewer3com.bsky.social, Refine.ink, and Stanford Agentic Reviewer (according to Gemini 3.1). Costs <$2! Live @ coarse.ink. Plug in paper, @openrouter.bsky.social key, and email. #econsky
🌍 INEQ Research Seminar Who benefits from AI? On April 14, @maxkasy.bsky.social joins our seminar to present his book “The Means of Prediction” – on power, control and inequality in the age of AI. 🗓 April 14, 4:00 pm 🔗 Info & registration: short.wu.ac.at/ineq_va_kasy #INEQ #INEQ_RS
Maximilian Kasy@maxkasy.bsky.social · last yr.💥 📚 Next step on the book journey:📚💥 "The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)" is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!!! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The economist Arindrajit Dube believes that the answer to fixing America’s wage problem is to empower workers and set mandatory wage standards across industries. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
The Economist Who Wants to Solve America’s Wage Problem
The economist Arindrajit Dube believes that the answer to fixing America’s wage problem is to empower workers and set mandatory wage standards across industries.
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