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Daniele Tavani

@danieletavani.bsky.social
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Economist | Professor & (reluctantly) Dept. Chair| Growth, inequality, macro, political economy | Opinions are mine. Rome -> New York -> Fort Collins danieletavani.com

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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Robert Blecker was not only a giant in #heterodox #macro, but also a true mentor to me. Always eager to provide feedback and comments on papers and at conferences, and always bringing a positive attitude. I will miss him. May he rest in peace.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My article on the #Seattle movement and the 25th anniversary of the #Genoa G8 march (I was there) just came out today in @jacobinmag.bsky.social. jacobin.com/2026/07/geno...
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The Genoa Protesters Were Right About Global Capitalism
Twenty-five years ago, 300,000 people marched in Genoa against the G8 summit. The Italian state responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, and improvised torture chambers, but history has vindicated the...
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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Another mass resignation from an academic journal- Review of Social Economy- over the clash between scholarly values and the commercial logic of for-profit publishers. Sad to see a valuable journal like RoSE go, but the editors made a principled choice. leiterreports.com/2026/07/20/a...
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Another journal implodes: Review of Social Economy
Roberto Veneziano, a former co-editor of the journal (which publishes a lot of philosophically-minded economics), writes: On Saturday, the 4th of July all four co-editors of the Review of Social Ec…
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
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Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Echoes of 1934 and 1938, when #Mussolini heavily interfered, bribing and intimidating referees and officials, to ensure that #Italy would win its first and second #WorldCup.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Heroes in a race against darkness www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Gaslighting to the max. In 30'', you can go to fred.stlouisfed.org and make a chart comparing real vs. nominal personal #consumption expenditure. Here's the graph. It's about #inflation, not "more money in their pockets." Unbelievable.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Instead of reshaping the debate on universal health care, child care, and public goods, the #Dems are trying to outcompete the #GOP on tax cuts. Lord have mercy. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/b...
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Are Democrats Becoming a Party of Tax Cuts?
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The next time a progressive podcast features John Bolton as a guest, remember this op-ed. It reads like a complete maniac’s wish list. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/o...
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Opinion | Finish the Job: How Trump Can Still Win in Iran
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Came to the same realization in January and stopped listening to him.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
These are very important points. The rise of #fascism in Italy and #nazism in Germany could not happen without the buy-in from the big manufacturing companies, crucial engines of innovation and growth at the time. Fast-forward to 2025, and the parade of big #tech CEOs at Trump's inauguration.
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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Fighting back works. Please take notes university leaders.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Very excited to see this project appearing as an @nber.org WP!
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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation. hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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CSWEP @aeacswep.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
They were kidnapped in international waters in an act of blatant piracy…
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
👀👀 www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Fed nominee Miran notes primary residence now used as rental property
President Donald Trump's nominee to the U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Stephen Miran, has a mortgage on a home formerly listed as his primary residence that he is now using as a rental property, according to his latest financial disclosure statement.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
When I was an undergrad at Sapienza University of #Rome, courses did not have #homework. Only a final #exam, first a written, closed-book #test and then an oral examination. Every single #econ course. As #AI proof as it gets.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Economists have spilled WAY too much ink debating and analyzing monetary policy to be silent at this moment.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I'm afraid you'll have to fire all of us, Mr President. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
It’s #taco Monday! Trump Extends China Tariff Truce www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
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Trump Extends China Tariff Truce
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A friend of a friend of the #president is the victim of a crime in #DC, a city where crime is at a 30-year low. In response, the president takes over the DC #police & sends in the national guard., tells them 2 do “whatever the hell they want.” Sounds like crony #fascism, if you ask me.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Why do the jobs numbers get revised? our markets and policymakers want data NOW but employer data dribbles in over months 1st estimate is based on the 75% of employers who respond promptly Updates occur as more data rolls in: 95% response rate by final revision 1/N www.bls.gov/opub/btn/vol...
The initial estimate of job change for a month is based on the growth or loss of jobs at the businesses that have reported their data. Generally, BLS assumes that the employment situation at businesses that had reported is representative of the situation at those that had not yet reported. BLS continues to collect outstanding reports from the
businesses in the sample as it prepares a second and then a third estimate for the month. With each subsequent estimate, more businesses have provided their information. In 2012, the average collection rate at the time of the third estimate for a month was 94.6 percent. (See chart 1.)
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Exactly. What guarantees that Trump won’t, in the future, directly request layoffs of #faculty he doesn’t like to maintain funding? More than a slippery slope, this settlement looks like the edge of a precipice.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
~70% of the #Gaza built environment destroyed. 50% of #hospitals destroyed. 59K confirmed deaths, 16.5K #children. Does not include #missing people, indirect deaths. Mass #starvation due to aid #blockades. Daily civilian killings at food distribution centers. Silence is complicity.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This is truly unbelievable given the rhetoric of the #Meloni government. But it speaks volume about the resilience of democracies in #Europe, where even the far right has to capitulate to its daunting demographic trends.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Yes, props. But where has pretty much every #Democrat (including Jeffries) been thus far?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"Not for you." Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity. This is the society the West will defend at all costs. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
Mostly living in cities, towns, and villages within Israel’s internationally recognised borders, many Palestinian citizens of Israel found themselves excluded from life-saving infrastructure during the worst nights of the Iran-Israel conflict to date.

For Samar al-Rashed, a 29-year-old single mother living in a mostly Jewish apartment complex near Acre, the reality of that exclusion came on Friday night. Samar was at home with her five-year-old daughter, Jihan. As sirens pierced the air, warning of incoming missiles, she grabbed her daughter and rushed for the building’s shelter.

“I didn’t have time to pack anything,” she recalled. “Just water, our phones, and my daughter’s hand in mine.”

The panicking mother tried to ease her daughter’s fear, while hiding her own, gently encouraging her in soft-spoken Arabic to keep up with her rushed steps towards the shelter, as other neighbours climbed down the stairs, too.

But at the shelter door, she said, an Israeli resident, having heard her speak Arabic, blocked their entry – and shut it in their faces.

“I was stunned,” she said. “I speak Hebrew fluently. I tried to explain. But he looked at me with contempt and just said, ‘Not for you.’”
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Every single day. on.ft.com/409SaZx
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 13/06/2025
The opposite of universal basic income paired with a wealth tax.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 13/06/2025
This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.   If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 11/06/2025
This is straight out of Nazi Germany.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/06/2025
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Excellent analysis by @fabiosabatini.bsky.social for those who understand Italian.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Welcome to the United States of America, where the President sends the #NationalGuard to crack down on Los Angeles protesters whose only fault is to stand up for fellow #humans.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚨New paper alert!🚨 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... This article with the amazing @viniciuscicero.bsky.social, who will join Denison University as an assistant professor in the fall, just came out in Metroeconomica. It is also open access, thx 2 an agreement between CSU library and Wiley.
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Institutional Changes, Effective Demand, and Inequality: A Structuralist Model of Secular Stagnation
This paper addresses the factors driving economic stagnation and inequality in the US over recent decades. We study a demand-driven model with joint adjustment of the functional distribution and capa...
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The media hype around Trump making a "deal" with the UK is yet another appalling example of #sanewashing.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
What?
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Lots of media commentary about “what does the Fed do in case of #stagflation.” I don’t think the answer is hard. But it is very unpleasant. 1/
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy #MayDay, everyone.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This is amazing. Trump campaigned on #tariffs and mass #deportations, and now is widely unpopular on tariffs and deportations. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump approval sinks as Americans criticize his major policies, poll finds
President Donald Trump’s 100 days poll finds a lower approval rating, growing opposition to his agenda and opposition to many of his major initiatives.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The ``greatest #democracy in the world'' is now sending FBI agents to arrest #judges.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This, unfortunately, is the crux of the matter.
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Daniele Tavani @danieletavani.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The “greatest democracy on Earth” disappearing people like Pinochet’s Chile.
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