Good stuff on offer here. Then again, I may be slightly biased. But if you are interested in Manne’s entrepreneurial trajectory in spreading the law and economics gospel, this paper provides a window into an important early effort.

Center for the History of Political Economy@hopecenter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Check out latest working paper addition- Henry Manne, Pareto in the Pines, and the Origins of the Law and Economics Movement by @dgindis.bsky.social and @spydermed.bsky.social hope.econ.duke.edu/publications...

There is no truth to the rumor that there is bbq sauce stain on this flier. That said, there will be good ‘q on offer at the SI, as always. Y’all come join us!

Center for the History of Political Economy@hopecenter.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Apply to join this years HOPE 2026 Summer Institute hope.econ.duke.edu/The-Summer-I... @shoet.bsky.social @spydermed.bsky.social

The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Visiting Scholars program. For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website: hope.econ.duke.edu Come join us!

No, way better. He just wrote my price controls lecture for Econ 101 next spring. Always nice to get a head start on teaching.

Who says history of economics research isn’t relevant? Humbled and honored …

Shot, chaser.

If I disappear after my Econ 101 lecture on international economics in a couple of weeks, at least y’all will know what happened to me. (Upside: I avoid the three weeks of macro lectures.)

Another day, and more winning! Reminds me of the good ol’ days when my Detroit Lions went 0-16. Former glory is being restored!

So much winning.

I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤️ if you do, too.

Posted for no particular reason. 🤡

@gelbach.bsky.social is a fine scholar and a wonderful person. However, I simply will not stand for him insulting young ferrets in this way. Free speech rights should not extend to this sort of monstrous, slanderous sort of talk.

gelbach@gelbach.bsky.social · last yr.

Move fast and break things FOR NO DAMN REASON BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALL THE SENSE OF A JUVENILE FERRET

Looking forward to Cruz pointing out the wokeness of the Coase theorem, since it tells us that we can indulge distributional preferences with zero efficiency consequences.

The birth and death of the French NBER, by Serge Benest. #EconFR journals.openedition.org/rhsh/9672

Cash Is Not King

Assessing the achievements of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in the mid-1980s, its administrator, René Marzocchi, observed: “There has been a failure to graft these high-q...

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Roses are red Duke is blue We love structural But you do you. @instrumenthull.bsky.social

a man in a superhero costume holds a blue and black flag with a cat on it

ALT: a man in a superhero costume holds a blue and black flag with a cat on it

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New Econ 101 test question just dropped.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last yr.

U.S. TREASURY'S BESSENT: OUR STRONG DOLLAR POLICY DOESN'T MEAN OTHER COUNTRIES GET TO HAVE A WEAK CURRENCY POLICY -FBN

Important new work by Malcolm Rutherford on the history of Blacks in American economics—the early generation of those earning PhDs. @trevondlogan.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Great to see this with @spydermed.bsky.social published online! read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

The big Econ 101 class lecture today is on public goods. If only there were something in the news to motivate the lecture … 🤔

One of the screams you hear is the collective one of about 10,000 applied economists who see an endless stream of natural experiments unfolding before them alongside the collapse of funding for the research on them.

Get to teach the Jevons paradox to my 230 Econ 101 students tomorrow. We are so back!! #HistoryOfEconomicsFTW

A clown car, wrapped inside a shit show, wrapped inside a dumpster fire. Sort of the turducken of governance.

Hi. I am teaching Econ 101 this term.

Beth Popp Berman@epopppp.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's not quite on the level of, say, Con Law, but I'm teaching a class on higher ed right now and current events have really been @$#$ing with the lesson plans

This is what happens because nobody reads Adam Smith anymore. 🤣 @florianederer.bsky.social @anthonyleezhang.bsky.social @bengolub.bsky.social

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombian president orders increase of import tariffs on US goods in retaliation to similar order from President Trump.

C’mon, Justin. Hockey pucks (official NHL ones) and tequila. Strategic trade policy. Someone is playing chess while the rest of us are playing checkers.

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 2y ago

Proposed across the board tariffs as of Feb 1: Canada 25% Mexico 25% China 10% Other countries 0% Galaxy brain needed to explain the strategic or economic objectives this meets.

This is sweet. Looking forward to seeing the research produced utilizing it and subsequent national databases. The possibilities are immense!

Aurélien Goutsmedt@aurelien-goutsmedt.com · 2y ago

With @thomasdelcey.bsky.social we are thrilled to release the first version of the French economics PhD database 🎉 tdelcey.github.io/becoming_eco... Using Sudoc and theses.fr data, we have collected metadata on most PhD defended in France in economics since 1900! #rstats #opendata #EconSky

If we were a little farther along in the semester, a “Pick an Executive Order and subject it to demand-supply analysis” would make for an interesting assignment for the coming weekend for my 101 students.

Got to spend 2 hrs at Duke women’s hoops game today listening to dude behind me mansplaining the whole game and college hoops generally to his gf/partner. Externalities are everywhere. (And no, my WTP was clearly nowhere near high enough to bribe this happy mansplainer into silence.)

This. 👇 The whole damn thread. This year I am thankful for theorists who show us possibilities and theorists who show us limitations. Good policy is hard.

Ben Golub@bengolub.bsky.social · 2y ago

The discussion ending at this tweet is very smart on both sides ( @lugaricano.bsky.social and @shengwuli.bsky.social ), reasonably spicy, and fun to read.

Now people are going to think I grew up on a farm or a ranch …

Neil Lewis, Jr.@neillewisjr.bsky.social · 2y ago

10/12. research processes. Scholars who study how researchers’ backgrounds relate to the things they study have pointed out that the experiences we have in life are related to what we study, how we study it, and thus the conclusions we draw from those studies—conclusions that affect people’s lives.