Economist and professor at LSE. “Posting through it."
Nathan Lane
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It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US.
It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration.
Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on realtimeinequality.org
Gabriel Zucman
US supremacy in nuclear submarines is under threat
v good from The Economist
www.economist.com/internationa...
This is a very good and thoughtful paper. I recommend reading the papers that this workflow actually produces.
They are quite strange to read: signals of competence such as rigorously explained empirics but much more underdeveloped positioning of the research.
www.nathanwilmers.com/paper_factory/
💥New | Without guidelines academic authorship defaults to power politics
✍️ Lorenz Graf-Vlachy
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France’s mandated profit-sharing distributes excess profits to workers. This paper shows that the policy raises the labor share and reduces the profit share, with little to no effect on investment, productivity, etc
academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...
For a climate treaty to be maximally robust, strong, and self-enforcing, it must properly balance supply- and demand-side instruments, from Geir B. Asheim and Bård Harstad www.nber.org/papers/w35128
In many areas of social science co-authorship is the default. Drawing on a meta-analysis of academics in fields related to management, Lorenz Graf-Vlachy outlines a pervasive culture of questionable a...
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12
Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
This is antithetical to industrial strategy and the UKs innovation ambitions.
I thought about this a lot today
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Rebecca Williams
🚨 NEW TOOL for U.S. legal journalists ⚖️
I turned @allyjar.bsky.social's incredible crowdsourced Google doc on accessing state court records into an interactive map.
Check it out and let me know about any errors, missing information, or ways I can improve this thing (link below)
Tyler McBrien
'Proposed staff cuts at some of the UK’s leading science departments should prompt ministers to reconsider whether the future of subjects key to industrial strategy ambitions are left to the markets, experts have said.' 1/2
www.timeshighereducation.com
Ministers urged to intervene as proposed cuts to highly regarded chemistry departments threaten UK government’s skills and growth plans
