Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 4hI’m not even sure how to explain to a Gen Z or Gen Alpha kid how completely insane it is to hear someone call Karl Rove a RINO. The Bush administration was a different universe at this point. 020
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 15hIf you just want to get up and sing I respect that. Not every platform has to be used for all purposes. Some people don’t feel well positioned to articulate things. But acting like it’s suspect to use your platform to talk about Gaza is making the political statement you imagine you’re avoiding. 010
Reposted by Daniel KuehnSam @samd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026it’s fucking crazy to me that there are still leftists out there who refuse to pin the blame for the war in Ukraine on the fascist Russian state 2359856
Reposted by Daniel KuehnTim Bartik @timbartik.bsky.social · 14/10/2026My report on how states can improve incentives released today. Summary: research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcont... Key point: Untargeted cash incentives only have modest returns & have large fiscal costs. Reforms (customized services, targeting, more elastic housing) can increase benefits at least 6xresearch.upjohn.org 1134
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026static.klipy.comThat's Not How It Works! That's Not How Any Of This Works!ALT: That's Not How It Works! That's Not How Any Of This Works! 030
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026My paper on James M. Buchanan, Robert Singleton, and Angela Davis is now published open access at the Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology! rhetm.org/article/id/1...rhetm.org“A purge of bigots is more important than one of Communists”: Robert Singleton and James M. Buchanan at UCLAThis paper provides a history of two economists who took opposing stances in the controversy surrounding Angela Davis at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the late 1960s and early 19... 040
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I sympathize with the view that we have to have some Homeland Security bureaucracy in some form (after all, DHS largely collected other preexisting offices), but at this point my view is we’ll figure all that out and it can’t possibly be worse than the current situation. 010
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026RIP Perry Mehrling. I only met him once at an INET workshop where he was sharing his research on Kindleberger. A really great guy--friendly and enthusiastic about everything everyone was working on. 0323
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I haven't finished the scientific summary yet, but so far I think it does a very good job laying out what was actually in Keynes, what became a part of Keynesian economics as the modeling began (e.g. the Phillips Curve) and what was adjusted in New Keynesianism. 000
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The popular Nobel summary is good: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2026/popular-information/nobelprize.orgPopular information about the 2026 economic sciences prizeThe Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2026 was awarded jointly to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford "for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation... 100
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Normally Henderson's WSJ write ups are pretty good, but this is a bizarre assessment of the prize. I think the actual prize write up does a much better job discussing how Hall, Woodford, and all of New Keynesian economics built on Keynes's foundation. www.wsj.com/opinion/a-no...wsj.comOpinion | A Nobel Prize for Macroeconomics Done RightMichael Woodford and Robert E. Hall built on Milton Friedman’s critique of John Maynard Keynes. 100
Reposted by Daniel KuehnMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water 421045
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Yep. They don’t want to be there any more than you want them to be there. It’s still an intimidation tactic by the administration of course, but the Guard isn’t the enemy. 030
Reposted by Daniel KuehnSam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...nytimes.comFederal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates. 573002855
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026After many years, GMU professor Don Boudreaux's response to the idea that under imperfect competition workers get paid less than their marginal product continues to be "but you haven't considered that if you just assume competitive labor markets, they are." cafehayek.com/2026/10/free...cafehayek.comFree Money Being Discarded and Unclaimed! - Cafe HayekTweetHere’s a letter to USA Today. Editor: Paul Osterman claims that 35% of workers in America today are “disposable” – a status that renders them both underpaid and easily dismissed (“The job crisis ... 100
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Congratulations to Hall and Woodford for their microfoundations prize! www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...nobelprize.orgPopular information about the 2026 economic sciences prizeThe Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2026 was awarded to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford and “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.” 020
Reposted by Daniel KuehnRichy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 11/10/2026My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day. 323671701
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Talarico should wave his HIPAA rights with respect to both this mental health center and whoever saw him about the flu, come down like a ton of bricks on these losers, and then move forward. I kind of doubt he will, which will be OK too because everyone will forget this in a week. But he should. 010
Reposted by Daniel KuehnHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 11/10/2026And most definitely the economics prize 2225
Reposted by Daniel KuehnHoon @hoon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Guess who’s pissed off by the loss in right wing bot traffic? 451697288
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Interesting looking new paper from Maria Marcuzzo on the General Theory. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.com 010
Reposted by Daniel KuehnKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Remember this the next time you read another idiotic piece asking "wHy dO pRoFesSorS aLL vOtE foR DeMoCraTs?" It's a real mystery why more faculty don't back the party that's actively working to destroy them and their work. 14864169
Reposted by Daniel KuehnJacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Dorothea Lange died on this day in 1965. Her photographs captured the brutality of the Great Depression and the inhumanity of the Japanese internment. 212954
Reposted by Daniel KuehnIrwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 11/10/2026#EconSky #ChicagoEconomics Milton Friedman's 1974 remarks at the annual board of trustees' dinner for faculty of the University of Chicago. What is the secret sauce for Chicago outstanding success in so many different disciplines? Hint: a certain single mandate. www.irwincollier.com/chicago-refl... 062
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I have to say, one thing Carter is a master of is weaving together the economic science going on, the personal relationships driving events, and the global politics shaping it all. That nexus is always an interest of mine when I do history of economics so I’m glad to see it. 030
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I actually think that is a greater source of friction with the neoclassical synthesis and the mathematization, not their comparative fidelity to Keynes. 110
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026To the extent that Galbraith is the center of the narrative this isn’t too bad I guess. Supporting characters often get reduced somewhat to a foil, even in good history. But one important gap with Galbraith is that Carter presents him as a pure Keynesian and ignores his institutionalism. 220
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It is like this weird melding of Austrian criticisms of them and Post Keynesian criticisms, and you definitely don’t walk away feeling like you have a good grasp of what they were trying to do. I feel like he overstates Keynes’s criticism of Hicks but I need to revisit that correspondence to know. 110
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I think he covers Galbraith and his ideas well (with one exception I’ll mention in a bit), but Hicks, Samuelson, Hansen, Heller, etc are dismissed for fine tuning, assuming they can achieve empirical precision, mathematizing, and (a bit oddly) general equilibrium theory. 110
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026So this is really a dual biography of Keynes and Galbraith. While the Galbraith half is definitely interesting I think it’s weaker than the first half. Carter is maddeningly dismissive of the neoclassical synthesis Keynesians, like to the extent that it’s highly uninformative. 121
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“What in the inflation is that?” So proud of how my ten year old complains about prices in her Roblox game. Might have to adopt this as a catch phrase. 010
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Googling I see that’s an issue but honestly I didn’t know beforehand or notice watching. 000
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I’m well aware of the Jumonville composite character and other historical issues. Film is its own medium and changes stories out of necessity. It doesn’t bother me. Or as the great Ridley Scott so eloquently put it: “Were you there? Oh you weren't there. Then how do you know?” 000
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Finally saw Young Washington tonight. Great movie. I had heard a criticism that he was mopey and pathetic in it and I don’t think that’s true at all. 200
Reposted by Daniel KuehnClaudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It’s here! Can’t wait to read. Thank you, @jeannasmialek.bsky.social. 3524
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Hot take: the kid might be better off not being actively raised by this piece of shit. 000
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My hopes for AI are not this high, but in theory you could imagine a technology that does this. That would require either social ownership of the technology, a change in the distribution of the surplus, or a change in redistributive policy. Until Bezos advocates any of those this seems empty. 011
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Hell yeah we will and I’m glad that when we actually get our shit together to do it you won’t be around any more to get any credit or pleasure from it. 🇺🇸🌒🛰️ 000
Reposted by Daniel Kuehnjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent 460175822696
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026In fact the system was in equilibrium it was just potentially unstable and it was a potentially below full employment equilibrium. 141
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I really like how he ties it back to Keynes’s disagreement with Hayek over the Treatise on Money. Not only does everyone love the rivalry, but it zeroes in on the real evolution of Keynes’s thought (and dispelled this common idea about Keynes as being fundamentally a disequilibrium theorist). 141
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ok getting back to this after a break. The rest of the discussion of the General Theory is excellent. No bullshit emphasis on sticky prices or acting like the multiplier or the liquidity trap was the core story. He is super clear it’s about interest rates coming from liquidity preference not S=I. 120
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Waitlists are a classic sign of underinvestment. There are private technical training options, but private and public training are inextricably intertwined so that alone is not going to resolve this. 020
Reposted by Daniel KuehnDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026People too young to remember but the day after Obergefell, the gays invaded our Churches and forced them to close, as they remain today. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...abcnews.comAlito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new bookA new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom. 981709239
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’m not sure what Vought could do quickly except break or block things, which may be what he has in mind. But breaking and blocking things are not going to help him at the polls. 101