The signatories to this letter start with Stiglitz and Rodrik and go on to encompass pretty much everyone brilliant and decent in the economics field worldwide. Prof. Reddy’s scholarship is deeply grounded in human dignity and wellbeing — in the direct lineage of his teacher, the great Amartya Sen.

Open Letter Concerning Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Future of the New School

Open Letter Concerning Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Future of the New School We, the undersigned, write to express our concern regarding recent restructuring decisions at the New School, includin...

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Sarang Shah@sarangshah.com · 13h ago

An urgent and important read on the unjust circumstances regarding the dismissal of my dear colleague and friend Sanjay Reddy. I hope our takeaway, in part, is a redoubling of our efforts to protect social inquiry and academic freedom against what's coming. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...

"I will be frank with readers; I’m genuinely concerned about this possibility because of an increasingly effective analytical test in the second Trump term: Is the possibility I’m thinking about incredibly stupid, ill-considered & dangerous? Does it sound like a completely ridiculous & pointless way

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 13h ago

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social piece: So much of the joint United States-Japanese currency intervention last Friday makes sense, even considering Bessent's silly theatrics. Yet some strange choices "under the hood" portend danger for the global financial system www.crisesnotes.com/a-hidden-geo...

When we in the @debtcollective.bsky.social started to organize around this in 2014, the attorneys we talked to were supportive but skeptical that Dept of Ed would ever actually cancel even some of this debt. ...

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12h ago

Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Steve (@interfluidity.com) wrote a very helpful and provocative thread in response to this draft: bsky.app/profile/inte.... My response is here: bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Jeff Gordon@jeffgordon.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have a new working paper up on SSRN, Tax and the Law of Market Cycles. The core idea is: what if we applied everything we've learned about countercyclical macroprudential regulation to the boom-bust cycles of physical commodities and heavy industries? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Forgot about this classic @lpeblog.bsky.social symposium with some absolute bangers. lpeproject.org/symposia/lpe...

Symposia: LPE Methods

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This book is an unbelievable feat of social research and theory. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Addiction by Design

An anthropologist traces the intimate connections between gambling addiction and casino industry design tactics

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I am going to go up the wall if this "it's not left and right, it's top and bottom" line that I keep hearing gets more traction. It's a left-wing frame! That's the whole point!

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

Pranjal and I talked to The American Prospect about Private Credit’s State Backstop: prospect.org/2026/08/03/a...

This is the strategy: portray the increasingly brazen conservative attack on independent unis as a set of reasonable and majoritarian "concerns" & make it easier for uni execs to do their job if they agree to "reform" their schools

Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 3d ago

Scoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Omg it’s another “private equity eats the seed corn” story

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is one deeply reported, beautifully written (or edited) story, and you should find time this Sunday morning to read every word of it. 1/2 Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...

It's great to see this, but the fundamental issue is that this type of thinking is taking place in a scattershot way, organized by a variety of different folks, while the main engines of left-of-center federal policy development are spinning wheels

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 6d ago

I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...

I have a new working paper up on SSRN, Tax and the Law of Market Cycles. The core idea is: what if we applied everything we've learned about countercyclical macroprudential regulation to the boom-bust cycles of physical commodities and heavy industries? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

But, again, this isn't just about electoral politics. You need organizations that brings exploited folks in these areas together that aren't sponsored/controlled by the gentry. That has historically been met with massive violence, of course

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · 6d ago

Embrace American Gentry Thought www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

There’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill It

Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious.

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Just found out what "gekkering" is, and...I will be using to describe social media interactions www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHZ...

Foxes Gekkering

YouTube video by Reilly Grant

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There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.

@carmenlynn.bsky.social · 6d ago

The Koch Nazis are back “A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college professors and administrators — and it's working.”

We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis

A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.

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I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community

While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.

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Just found out what "gekkering" is, and...I will be using to describe social media interactions www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHZ...

Foxes Gekkering

YouTube video by Reilly Grant

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We need you to ACT NOW and send your US Representative an email opposing devastating farm worker legislation to make Trump's farm worker wage cuts into federal law. 5 Democrats have joined 47 Republicans in co-sponsoring this devastating legislation. 1/

Supermarket sushi is now a multibillion-dollar industry, but according to a new lawsuit, the market is fueled by an unjust franchise system that skirts labor laws to exploit the industry's Burmese workforce. To learn more, read Victor Maung's latest for @prismreports.org:

The hidden cost of America's supermarket sushi boom

Myanmar refugees face exploitative working conditions as the backbone of the grocery store sushi industry, according to a lawsuit

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Yes! More of this, please. Now.

Madison Condon@madisoncondon.bsky.social · 6d ago

The Roosevelt Institute asked a bunch of climate wonks to put our heads together to talk about what a national Democratic platform should look like. 2029 is really not that far away and there's a lot of work to do.

The only thing that prevented me from throwing my phone out the window while I read this is that I imagined it in an Australian accent

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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I think Zohran’s grocery stores are a worthwhile policy experiment. That said, the idea that people in food deserts eat less produce due to lack of access has been thoroughly debunked. The real problem is that low-income people can’t use SNAP for hot prepared foods.

Really interesting how many people are treating this article as solo-authored so they can express their ongoing annoyance at Sam Moyn.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

What should replace the American-led world order? | Aslı Bâli and Samuel Moyn

Glick & Lozada's careful takedown of zombie welfare economics is playing a big role in my current thinking on price discrimination (in which talk of "surplus" is all over the place, even in cutting-edge I/O, without any acknowledgement of the problems with the concept)

The Sling@theslingutah.bsky.social · last wk.

"The Economics on Which the Law and Economics Movement Relies Is Ideology, Not Science" by Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Darren Bush (And the science more readily supports the LPE movement) cc: @lpeblog.bsky.social www.thesling.org/the-economic...

This piece replies to @madisoncondon.bsky.social and @lookheron.bsky.social's excellent piece in @LPEblog, found here: lpeproject.org/blog/the-eco...

The Economics that Law and Economics Ignores

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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"The Economics on Which the Law and Economics Movement Relies Is Ideology, Not Science" by Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Darren Bush (And the science more readily supports the LPE movement) cc: @lpeblog.bsky.social www.thesling.org/the-economic...

The Economics on Which the Law and Economics Movement Relies Is Ideology, Not Science - The Sling

The notion of efficiency that undergirds Law and Economics is a zombie ideological economic concept.

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Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.