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Economic theory at Caltech. Views expressed in this account do not reflect those of economic theorists at Caltech.

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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Popular science piece about a math paper with physics motivation by Caltech and Princeton economists. www.caltech.edu/about/news/e...
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Economics Puzzle Leads to a New Understanding of a Fundamental Law of Physics
The research provides a deeper understanding of the Boltzmann distribution.
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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Incredibly excited to see this paper with @ccrismancox.bsky.social at @iojournal.bsky.social. We study outbidding using new models, methods, and data from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. #polisky
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Tug of War: The Heterogeneous Effects of Outbidding Between Terrorist Groups | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Tug of War: The Heterogeneous Effects of Outbidding Between Terrorist Groups - Volume 79 Issue 1
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Casey Cox @ccrismancox.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
@mgibilisco.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in @iojournal.bsky.social that we’re really excited about. Mike has a great 🧵on it!
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Scientific American strikes again with a sophomoric ramble about probability. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
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Why Probability Probably Doesn’t Exist (but It’s Useful to Act like It Does)
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability—an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
when an editor tells a senior professor that not all his ideas are good enough for the best journal in the world
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Pure curiosity!
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Sorry! "Tal" means valley, not mountain.
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Yes! Sorry.
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Thanks a lot!
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Absolutely serious! Thanks a lot.
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Does anyone know where to find online Karl Marx's writing about derivatives?
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
very strange? why would you want to beat a mince pie it's already been minced
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Without looking it up, which of the following is the ultimate origin of the word "dollar"? 1. The German word "Tal", meaning mountain, through "Thaler". 2. The Latin word "decem", meaning ten, through "dinar". 3. The Spanish word "dalar", meaning to give.
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
When French was still the lingua franca, were native French speakers more likely to be monolingual than others?
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Did you mean to say there's already a native american Sridhar?
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Wait until you hear about what happened to the universe in its early days.
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Artem Chernikov @archernikov.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
There will be a Very Informal Gathering of Logicians (VIG 2025) at UCLA, Fri, Feb 7 to Sun, Feb 9, 2025. The 22nd in a series of biennial logic meetings at UCLA, this event honors Alexander Kechris on the occasion of his formal retirement from Caltech. www.math.ucla.edu/~ineeman/Con... #MathSky
A screenshot from the website announcing the VIG conference: https://www.math.ucla.edu/~ineeman/Conf/VIG2025/
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Wait till you hear Eminem's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Cry on it.
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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bart simpson is sitting at a podium in a room with a man in a hat standing next to him .
ALT: bart simpson is sitting at a podium in a room with a man in a hat standing next to him .
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A_n says to S_n when asked if it has any conjugates
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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a bald man in a white shirt and tie is screaming into a microphone ..
ALT: a bald man in a white shirt and tie is screaming into a microphone ..
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Odds on Andrew Tate for secretary of education?
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Pleasure
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The measurement of the distance to the sun using the transit of Venus (Lalande, 1769).
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Careful what you wish for.
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
It's actually super simple. You just take the supremum over all simple functions dominated by the function you are trying to integrate.
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
Therefore if the moon is not gorgeous now then no one else is up in Sydney.
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
Advisee: [Going on the job market] Sometimes I feel like it's all a game. Our papers and talks are just sophistry, detached from the world. Advisor: [Shedding tears] I am so proud. You are finally ready to be a professor.
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
What do the scatologists think?
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Johannes Boehm @johannesmboehm.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Hello #EconSky 📈📉, I'm an economist working on growth, trade, industrial development, and environment (and occasionally on stuff that's hard to classify). I love to read posts summarizing and debating research, from economics & beyond, and that's also mostly what I (re-)tweet about.
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Physics and computer science?
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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
last flight, sat next to a computer scientist who was a nervous flyer. when I heard a "ribbit" from their bag I asked if they had an emotional support animal, and they said it was their terror-correcting toad
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
At a hotel in Ohio. Somehow the Ohio hotel and Motel Code does not seem to have been revised since at least the late ninties.
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
that does not sound fun at all
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
that is way way above the bar for any theory paper
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
but if it doesn't spark joy then it's definitely not worth writing, so it sounds like that's the actual lower bound
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
What is your threshold for starting a project?
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
100% is a paper that when you read it in 10 years you'll think "oh yeah! that WAS a cool idea! and it's also explained well!"
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Write three 80% papers in the time it takes to write a 90% paper
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 01/08/2023
A store front is an effective way to advertise there, and you know you're hitting your target audience. Maybe.
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
You learn about it when it gets reposted to 4chan?
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CaltechEconTheory @caltecheconthry.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
Rejoice! The 2023 NSF/NBER/CEME Mathematical Econ Conference, in honor of Kim Border, will take place at Caltech on Dec 1 & 2. We welcome submissions across economic theory, with a focus on papers related to Border's research. Submit to nsfnberceme2023@gmail.com by Sep 1.
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