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Alessandra Basso @alessandrabasso.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Very interesting keynote by Muhammad Ali Khalidi on demarcation between natural and social kinds. At ENPOSS 2025 picturesque setting, Ca’ Foscari, Venice. #philsci

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Registered and looking forward to sharing a session on inequality and value-laden social science with @markfabian.bsky.social @alessandrabasso.bsky.social and Moritz Horl. (Speaking of inequality, I am thankful to have an institution to reimburse the very high registration fee). Who else is going?

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PPE Society: London 2025 - The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society

We are pleased to share that, in addition to the PPE Society’s Annual Meetings held each year in New Orleans, the international PPE Society will…

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Alessandra Basso @alessandrabasso.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Angus Deaton on economists and philosophers discussing about inequality and justice, in Cambridge, 50 years ago ‘Economics in America’ #philsci

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I found Craig Callender’s piece as the PSA President in this latest newsletter really moving. Very funny at the start and serious at the end

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Alessandra Basso @alessandrabasso.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I’m preparing a lecture on social prediction with AI and couldn’t agree more with this. I’ll be using Douglas' excellent ‘Reintroducing Prediction to Explanation.’ Now curious to hear what others are working on in this space. #philsci

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Alessandra Basso @alessandrabasso.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Can’t wait to read this! “Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy? Coyle explains why economic statistics matter. … Only with a new approach to measurement will we be able to achieve the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.” #Philsci

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Alessandra Basso @alessandrabasso.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Production isn't just a matter of market coordination - financial institutions like banks and stock markets regulate it via credit and monetary policy. Mason argues we should insert public criteria into private financing, democratizing their regulating functions.

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 20/02/2025

Evidence from a progressive #tax reform in #Argentina shows that the reform had significant effects on tax compliance and that the effects depend on how households perceive the broader tax system. N Ajzenman, G Cruces, R Perez-Truglia, D Tortarolo, G Vazquez-Bare cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

A graph that shows the cross-rate effects of a progressive tax reform on own tax compliance.

Tax progressivity is a cornerstone of government redistribution efforts worldwide. Yet, despite its widespread use, much remains unknown about how individuals respond – not just in their stated preferences, but also in their actual behaviour. This column examines the real-world impacts of a progressive tax reform in Argentina and finds causal evidence that the reform had significant effects on tax compliance. The authors explore the broader implications for understanding taxpayer preferences and improving the design of tax reforms.

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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’m reading this on diffusion and it’s quite a useful way to think about public sector digital work. You can think about internet-era methods as an innovation (for example, the idea of organizing work into outcome-based product teams). 1/n

A photo of a book: Diffusion of Innovation by Everett M Rogers. The cover is black with white writing. In the middle is an illustration of five pointed leaves on a colour spectrum from green, to yellow, to autumnal red.

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Eran Tal @erantal.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Paper and symposium proposals are now being accepted for the 2024 Inaugural Conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement at UC Berkeley, August 5–6, 2024. Submit by April 1st! #philsci #histsci #PsychSciSky 🧪 measurementsociety.org/conference/

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Conference – The Society for the Study of Measurement

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N. Emrah Aydınonat @aydinonat.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

🗓TODAY! 6.3.2024, 15:00 (EET) Dani Rodrik: "Industrial Policies: The Old and the New" ℹ️🔗 reses-argumenta.fi?p=1049 (⌚️🇬🇧🇵🇹: 13h 🇳🇱🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇸🇸🇪: 14h 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇬🇷: 15h🇹🇷: 16h) #econsky @drodrik.bsky.social

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Alessandra Basso @alessandrabasso.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

UK is more unequal than centralEU countries not because UK rich are richer, but bc the mid and bottom of the distribution are poorer. If benefits keep shrinking while return on investment stay high, ineq surges. Thwaites on Ending Stagnation for how to fix this (spoiler, not by tax) #ineq #philsci

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Alessandra Basso @alessandrabasso.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

For 38% of Apple shareholders it’s time to openly discuss the ethical guidelines on AI #philsci

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Christian List @clist.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

New paper: Any probability aggregation rule (method for merging individual probability judgments, e.g. in a committee or expert panel, into coherent collective ones) can satisfy at most two of (1) consensus preservation, (2) non-dictatorship, and (3) non-manipulability (immunity to strategy voting).

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Franz Dietrich & Christian List, The impossibility of non-manipulable probability aggregation - PhilPapers

A probability aggregation rule assigns to each profile of probability functions across a group of individuals (representing their individual probability assignments to some propositions) a collective ...

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TINT - Centre for Philosophy of Social Science @tint-philosophy.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

In the next Perspectives on Science seminar on 12.2., Maria Jimenez-Buedo (UNED) will give a talk entitled “Explanation and generality in Analytical Sociology." Joint work w/ Saúl Pérez-González (Valencia). More details at tint-helsinki.fi #philsci

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

We must ask the important questions: What are we hoping to learn from these replications? Is a replication the best design to achieve what we want to learn? Is this experiment replication-ready? We discuss these points here. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21475/

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Minimum Viable Experiment to Replicate - PhilSci-Archive

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Rodrigo Medel @medel.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

#philsci #histsci A substantial revision to “Scientific Progress” was published today by Ilkka Niiniluoto. Very interesting review.

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Scientific Progress (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Expected early March! Science and the Public, in the Elements in Philosophy of Science series. Scientific understanding, scientific trust, the Vienna Circle, and strong claims about what science owes society... what's not to like? www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky #philsci

Classic ISOTYPE graphic designed by Otto Neurath and collaborators to make statistical information more widely available

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

Looking forward to reading this. Winsberg and Harvard are such a great team on the subject of value judgments in models used to justify action. #philsci #scipol

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Scientific Models and Decision Making

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Scientific Models and Decision Making

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Official publication day of Avner de-Shalit and my City of Equals. Please check your money/sense ratio before ordering, though as it’s also available free, as a legal open access download. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Alessandra Basso @alessandrabasso.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

[The Economist 1973] In Egalitaria, there is no inequality of income. Population is stable, everyone has the same wage, same savings, same returns. Inheritance isn't allowed. Yet, the wealthiest 10% own 74% of wealth. Why? #PhilSci Thx to Jerry Goodenough for finding this gem.

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Alessandra Basso @alessandrabasso.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Enjoyed reading this article by J Morton. It points to an overlooked form of inequality that might be difficult to track down: even if resources were fairly distributed, access to them might not be, offsetting the benefits of redistribution and public spending doi.org/10.1111/japp... #philsci

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Alessandra Basso @alessandrabasso.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Spent the day at Horizon info-workshop yesterday. Lots of excitement for UK signing the association last Monday! Kudos to ROO hard work figuring out remaining open questions

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Alessandra Basso @alessandrabasso.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Enjoyed reading this article by Uljana #Feest today. Having a positive account of context sensitivity also depends on how one thinks of the object of research. When focusing on clusters of phenomena it’s easier to see sensitivity “as a feature, not only as a bug” philsci-archive.pitt.edu/22620/

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