Here's the AER editor trying to convince you how benign the use of AI is in the editorial process - "just a detailed technical proofreader." I've seen what AI does to students' behavior. Editors are no different. Once let it in the door, it will be asked to do all manner of stuff. e.g. desk rejects.

Erzo F.P. Luttmer@erzoluttmer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/5 AEA journals have run a pilot using Refine, and author reactions were overwhelmingly positive: >90% favored incorporating Refine into the editorial process. Think of Refine not as a referee, but as a detailed technical proofreader. @aeajournals.bsky.social #EconSky

Who could have imagined legislating a bunch of costs onto landlords would have the effect of land lords leaving the sector and rents going up.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last yr.

UK landlords quit sector as number of homes to let falls, survey says https://on.ft.com/4kxld0G

As per usual, Zucman misuses data in a desperate scramble to support his failing ideology.

Gabriel Zucman@gabrielzucman.bsky.social · last yr.

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

Peer review is genuinely not a fraud detection mechanism and shouldn't be taken to be. It's not really a knock against a peer review system for failing to pick up when data is faked. The system is already over worked if we did data forensics at scale as a standard part of review it grinds to a halt.

Being an academic really is one of the best jobs imaginable. No idea why so many academics complain about it so much.

Maybe this is spitting hairs but “social media attack” sounds somewhat petty or like bullying behavior, whereas what happened here is that people documented that there were serious errors in a paper and got stonewalled when they tried to go through the “normal” academic mechanisms for addressing it

3/ Examining the methods and code revealed a coding error caused by trying to include fixed effects perfectly collinear with the treatment. Correcting this error showed no effect of the reform on rape. We sent this partial replication to the author and journal.

Hilary here is yet another example showing just why economics lessons should be compulsory for everyone before they go to university.

Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄@hilaryagro.com · 2y ago

As an anthropologist, if the only thing I ever did all day was remind people that before the privatization and commodification of land humans had way more free time and peace of mind, it would still not do a dent in how deep this myth has burrowed into people's colonized minds like a parasite

Democrats are so bad with messaging on this. These tariffs are unpopular and they are going to be extraordinarily unpopular.

It's strange how Tim is keen to highlight this yet ignores the fact that one of his own co-authors is responsible for the tariffs in the first place!

Tim Kehoe 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦@tkehoe.bsky.social · 2y ago

This article is a good summary of what economists think of the calculation of Trump's "kind" reciprocal tariffs. And it mentions the work of three of my former students, with quotes by two of them. finance.yahoo.com/news/the-whi...

100%. Messaging needs to be clear and forceful. This is bad and it will not help workers.

Apparently Yanis Varoufakis thinks that Trump’s tariffs are based on a solid masterplan, which means that I have to update neither about the plan nor about Varoufakis.

In one fell swoop, Stephan Miran, Pierre Yared, and Kim Ruhl have destroyed not only their own reputations, but also those of anyone that has ever worked with them on any paper or other piece of work. I would be ashamed to have my name on the same project as theirs.

Results that shouldn't surprise anyone. Yet I'm sure people at the AEA will still deny them.

John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very excited about this new project.

What is obscene is the argument - repeated here uncritically - that a public official doing their job (as mandated by law) is somehow personally responsible for someone else’s suicide

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2y ago

‘An insult’: Amanda Spielman, Ofsted chief at time of Ruth Perry’s suicide, to be given a peerage

OBR forecasts are increasingly contentious; not only do they reflect Government policy, they increasingly shape it. The 2022 mini-budget fallout is the starkest example of the OBR’s impact. A 🧵on the pressure this puts on the OBR to get things right 👇

The OBR has been criticised rather a lot recently, and while some of that criticism is valid, much of it is misplaced. @pedroserodio.com and I have written for @ukdayone.bsky.social to set out where the OBR might be able to improve and suggest a way forward to implement improvements.

Wonk punditry was a mistake. I honestly can’t believe how bad the reporting has gotten on quant topics

"I wish we have more random shocks to leverage for my econ papers."

Posting this here because it seems like a great job people should see, working for @stuartjritchie.bsky.social at Anthropic. If you’re a brilliant writer on economics and society and want to help the world understand AI better, consider applying. boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...

lmfao do you know how unpopular you have to be to poll 4 points behind international aid and 12 points behind the IRS here

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 2y ago

Those Who Say (X) Agency Should Be Eliminated: DOGE: 25% USAID: 21% DOE: 17% IRS: 13% FEMA: 11% EPA: 8% CDC: 7% CFPB: 7% ICE: 5% FBI: 4% NWS: 2% DOD: 1% YouGov / Feb 18, 2025 / n=1603

Adam knows all about fake economic research!

Oct 26: “I’ll slash prices — so fast it’ll make their heads spin” Feb 13: “Could go up” 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

This is extremely false - the link between Biden's excessive spending and the resulting inflation is obvious.

Arin Dube@arindube.bsky.social · 2y ago

Absent Biden's economic policies, we would have likely experienced almost the same inflation, lower job growth, and lower real wage growth especially for the bottom. And like much of the developed world, American voters would have voted Biden out due to unavoidable part of high global inflation.

Proud and grateful to be at what some people call "the worst public university in the US".

This is a good policy! Universities should not get to skim off absurdly high proportions of grants to cover "overheads". Even 10% would be too high a proportion.

David F. Warner@dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 2y ago

⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants. —> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you. Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?

Liam is a conspiracy theorist who doesn't understand economics.

Liam Byrne MP@liambyrnemp.bsky.social · 2y ago

I think as the ONS and other research underlines, the ‘official’ figures are basically fiction

You know you fucked up when even Mike Dean says this on Sky Sports: