Terence Tao puts it brilliantly: We're going through a cognitive version of the Copernican revolution. It was a huge conceptual leap to consider the possibility that the Earth may not be the center of the universe. Human intelligence may not be the center of intelligence.
Eduard Talamàs
@eduardtalamas.bsky.social
Economics: AI, organizations, networks, bargaining Associate Professor @ IESE Business School | Fellow CEPR & HKU CAMO & BSE Previously: Harvard | UPenn | BSE Barcelona
🚨🚨 Call for Papers 🚨🚨 Economics of Transformative AI Workshop at the BSE Summer Forum 2026 👉 June 17, 2026 | Barcelona 👉 Keynote: @lugaricano.bsky.social 👉 Confirmed speakers: Kevin Bryan ( @afinetheorem.bsky.social ) and @lindseyraymond.bsky.social 👉 Deadline: February 28, 2026
Economics of Transformative AI | Barcelona School of Economics
Find paper topics, past speakers, and the call for the next edition of the BSE Summer Forum Workshop on Economics of Transformative AI
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Proper debat “#Economia i #política de la #IA” entre @isaacbaley.bsky.social, @ainagallego.bsky.social, Juan González i @eduardtalamas.bsky.social, moderat per Ferran Elias. 📅18/2, 18h 🚩@IEC 👉https://sce.iec.cat/18-de-febrer-propera-conferencia-economia-i-politica-de-la-ia/
Exciting event today @stanforddel.bsky.social on the economic challenges and opportunities of the AI age. I’ll share key highlights in the thread below.
Lots of ideas in this proposed research agenda for economists thinking about the effects of #AI on the #economy, including implications for #innovation and #geoeconomics. Courtesy of @erikbryn.bsky.social, @akorinek.bsky.social and Ajay Agrawal. tinyurl.com/ycxjx4ah
Should be fun !
I'm organizing a two-day summer school on networks (10-11 September) at Monash University where Matt Jackson (@JacksonmMatt ), Sanjeev Goyal, and myself will teach a 12 hours course. It is free and anybody interested can apply here: www.monash.edu/business/eve...
walking to give a general audience talk on the Economics of AI, this anecdote came to mind. What a legend...
@stanforddel.bsky.social rocks! Very inspiring visit, thank you again for this opportunity @erikbryn.bsky.social !
Did you miss yesterday's seminar with Eduard Talamàs? Catch up here to watch "Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy." @eduardtalamas.bsky.social digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/event/eduard...
How is AI different from past automation—and what does this mean for the knowledge economy? @enriqueide.bsky.social & I have spent two years tackling this question. Join the discussion @stanforddel.bsky.social. Organized by @erikbryn.bsky.social digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/event/eduard...
Eduard Talamàs: Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy
On March 3, 2025, Eduard Talamàs, Assistant Professor of Economics at IESE Business School, will stop by the lab for his talk on "Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy."
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Thrilled to kick off @stanforddel.bsky.social’s spring seminar series next Monday (3/3)! I’ll be presenting joint work with @enriqueide.bsky.social on 'Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy.' Looking forward to a great discussion.
Our spring seminar series kicks off next Monday (3/3) with Eduard Talamàs, assistant professor of economics at IESE Business School. Join us for "Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy." Register now for this free virtual event, open to all. digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/event/eduard...
Excited for this seminar! Huge thanks to @erikbryn.bsky.social and @stanforddel.bsky.social for the opportunity. Really looking forward to the discussion.
Please join me next Monday when I welcome Prof. Eduard Talamàs ( @eduardtalamas.bsky.social ) to the Stanford Digital Economy Lab for his seminar on Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy. Follow the @stanforddel.bsky.social for announcements of future seminars and events.
Congratulations to Philipp Strack of @yaleuniversity.bsky.social who was presented with the 2024 Clark Medal by Lawrence F. Katz at the #ASSA2025 Annual Meeting. #econsky aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...
I did a NYT video interview—along with voices from Hungary, Nicaragua, and Russia— about how repression works in authoritarian states. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | How Tyranny Begins
Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.
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Week 3: This week's theory paper in focus is Political Correctness (2001) by Stephen Morris. It is a masterpiece in what economists called applied theory--crafty story telling about interesting facts around us that uses elegant mathematical modeling. www.jstor.org/stable/10.10...
Markus’ Academy has been a game-changer in making high-level economic discussions accessible to all. Yesterday, I had the honor of presenting my research with @enriqueide.bsky.social there—a dream come true! Watch the webinar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2VX... #MarkusAcademy #AI #Economics #Research
Eduard Talamas on Introducing AI Agents
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PLEASE RT :) Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics Deadline Jan 30 (soon!) Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford
This rings true to me. One of the reasons why the Soviet Union was so strong in math and physics is that super-talented people in those areas didn't have nearly as many outside options to apply their talents as did comparably talented people in the United States.
i'm excited to be judging a Quora knowledge contest questions are below. if you like thinking about economics, write good answers to these questions!! first prize is $1000 second prize is $200 (which can buy a set of steak knives) contests.quora.com/Now-Open-Jan...
Public debate in economics is important! Following a suggestion by Handbook of Labor Economics editors Dustmann & Lemieux, Jose Azar & I added a nuanced discussion of the significance of labor market concentration in our understanding of market power and welfare. #EconSky
In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/
This bit of Sam Altman’s newest post is similar in tone to a post by the CEO of Anthropic & what many (not all) researchers from every lab have been saying publicly and privately. You do not have to believe them, but I think they believe what they are saying, for what it worth. blog.samaltman.com
Read this last year. Highly recommended. The part on behavioral Econ was particularly interesting as someone in the field.
Ran Spiegler has a new book out that I found very entertaining. It's a collection of essays offering accessible introductions to modern classics of economic theory: global games, Bayesian persuasion, hold-up problem, competitive screening, ... And it's FREE! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Please mark down our session if you are attending the upcoming ASSA meeting! Data, Privacy and AI, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025, 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (PST) www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...,
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Trump at it again talking about the virtues of tariffs. Two key papers: Diamond-Mirrlees Atkinson-Stiglitz, establish conditions under which tariffs should not be employed and show the income tax is a great tax. Or read @pkrugman.bsky.social Pop internationalism!
Good write up of Toner-Rogers result on introduction of AI to material science labs leading to increase in productivity, w/ almost all gains going to those who were already most productive But perhaps most interesting result was buried: the scientists hated the tool 1/2 www.wsj.com/economy/will...
The best education about liberalism is experiencing the alternatives.
A member of the Military Operations Command drops some pure logic: "you want to worship God or the Devil, it's not our business, we can talk about that on a cup of tea, you convince me, I convince you, whatever. As for the State, it must accommodate for all to live in it" #Syria
Might rhinos be better protected by a legal horn market? #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2024/12/rhin...
"Rhino horns are a renewable resource." Would a legal market help save endangered rhinoceroses?
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A fun thing about building a company while also doing AI research is seeing the econ in practice. Joshua describes a pattern we see w/ AlldayTA: big spikes in use (eg around exams). Humans handle unevenness poorly; AI doesn't need to! https://buff.ly/3BCyLHP
The Value of AI for Uneven Work
AI will be valuable for work that has lots of downtime with brief but large surges
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