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This is the destruction of federal funding for scientific research & universities as we know it. A total, comprehensive politicization of the process & an end run around Congress.
*stares blankly in Regional Science*
here's Luc and Dan, a mere forty years ago, discussing the inferential issues in spatial regression, which were already very well-known at the time
Even fascism is no match for the All-Conquering Power and Holy Terror of the Soul-Destroyer, the Word that Breaks Wills and Slows Time — the Environmental Impact Statement.
another quirk in the econometrica paper is all spatial autocorrelation is viewed as misspecification and i cant understand how their approach works any time you have legitimate spillover in X or Y?
arent they proposing griffith-style spatial filtering?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
on the one hand, it's dope to see spatial analysis win Econometrica's best paper (!)
on the other, it's so deeply troubling that this statement is news to economists in 2026
"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.
Finally updated the search engine behind econlit-db to Meilisearch. Everything should be quite fast now -- under a second or two. Let me know if you have any bugs. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
Mark Copelovitch
Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
