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Beth Popp Berman

@epopppp.bsky.social
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Professor @ a large Midwestern U Author of Thinking like an Economist, Creating the Market University Trying to understand how ideas about economic value have shaped capitalism + its regulation, from the first Gilded Age to the second Have more hair now

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
First take: Oh, this is super super cool. Second take: Oh, this is totally wrong. Third take: Oh, maybe this is an excellent pedagogical tool?
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
this debate is why I'm still lurking here
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Just finished a tenure letter in an hour less than targeted, please clap.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Kind of liked it better when we just had varieties of capitalism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
2 x 2 figure showing four varieties of plutocrats: oligarchs, tycoons, cronies, and kleptocrats
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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
jfc
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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Using anything correlated with race is discrimination in admissions; while nothing that is correlated with race is discrimination in gerrymandering.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
You've got to be freaking kidding me.
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case
Judge Breyer: Okay. Thank you very much. Juror 96, I think that you also have strong views. Could you set them aside?

Juror 96: I believe that in a criminal trial, I would feel morally obligated to convict. However, in a civil trial, I feel I can set those views aside.

Judge Breyer: That’s interesting.

Juror 96: I’m happy to expand.

Judge Breyer: Sure.

Juror 96: I believe it would be to the benefit of the human race were Mr. Musk to be sent to prison. However, I don’t believe a loss of several hundreds of millions of dollars in a civil trial would be even a drop in the bucket to his wealth, so it doesn’t really matter. Therefore, I would be able to consider the facts.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
lol "wokeness take parrot"
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This scale is so hard to wrap your head around.
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Adam L @adam-lg.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The one professor with a box of bluebooks who keeps all their grades in an Excel spreadsheet
media.tenor.com
a man in a black uniform says so say we all in front of flags
Alt: William Adama says so say we all in front of flags
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
they’re calling it “Roberts redistricting,” and someone doesn’t like it
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
graph shows a dramatic increase in black registration after the voting right act
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It’s a disastrous day for democracy. The Voting Rights Act made the U.S. an actually functioning democracy. And civil rights activists face impossible odds to gifting it to us. The Supreme Court‘s decision is vile.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Today, a spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements 🎉
lpeproject.org
Some of the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship
A selection of worthy additions to your “important PDFs” folder.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Wasting time this morning by hanging out asking a pre-1931 LLM questions like "Is finance productive"
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Donald Mackenzie + Odd Lots is very much my jam
bloomberg.com
Odd Lots: How the Speed of a Trade Got Nearly Down to the Speed of Light - Bloomberg
Understand every aspect of the global economy – and know how to make your next move.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Whoever called the faction of the press who still want to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner the ‘Access of Evil’ I salute you
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
W. E. B. Du Bois: Woke Gary Becker.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/04/2026
We could just ... not let them do this.
wired.com
New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It was so nice to go to my kid's woke high school and hear them say all the words we're not allowed to say any more.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Every day brings a new AI product, use case or outcome. But one method endures for knowing what these systems actually do and to whom: auditing. Thrilled to share my new coauthored book, Auditing AI-a roadmap for accountability across this dynamic terrain #openaccess mitpress.mit.edu/978026205172...
Auditing AI by the Marquand House Collective
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Bicycles. Vaccines. What *hasn't* been affectively polarized at this point? Colors? Shoes? Can't wait to see what's next
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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 21/04/2026
Alright, so after many many drafts, my NEPC education “policy review” covering Year I of Trump II is out. A “Not great, Bob!” gif might have served as well. I end up arguing that doing the life-giving work of good education requires intensely local effort in a newly obvious kind of way.
nepc.colorado.edu
Studying the First Year of Trump’s Second Term: The Renewed Importance of Participatory Governance
The first year of Trump's second administration has marked a sharp departure from six decades of federal education policy. This policy brief examines how the administration has expanded executive auth...
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It's the time of year when I'm grateful for that great civilizational advance, Claritin.
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Madison Condon @madisoncondon.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
a bunch of ppl & institutions knew dual class stock was bad from the get-go and yet everybody crumbled in the face of the most ridiculous argument in the world that these founders were just so smart and special we should cede control of our economy (and retirement funds) to them
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Exciting times we live in.
ft.com
Latest AI models could threaten world banking system, financial officials warn
Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos Preview model could expose vulnerabilities in lenders’ cyber defences
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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
“Of course in the old days Bluesky was only on for three hours a day. We used to get dressed up in our Sunday best to log on to it. Then when it shut down again we’d all stand up and sing the national anthem”
Hugh from the Armando Iannucci Show
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I ordered a 36" x 48" calendar whiteboard and it turns out I had no idea how big that actually is lol
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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Also this.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This makes me hopeful for the U.S.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Steve saves his pocket money all week so he can go bowling on Sunday afternoons. Steve is terrible at bowling, but nobody says anything because Steve is trying his best.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In the mid-90s I had a summer job turning dictation from the head of the American College of Physicians into letters.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It's going to take an awful lot to suppress *this* much vote.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
the ridiculousness of the world today is honestly a little delightful
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I know there will be issues regardless but reading this thread from top to bottom is very, very satisfying.
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
::bounce:: My upcoming book - "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the U.S. Census" - is on the shortlist for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize!!! Thank you CJS/Nieman for your encouragement!! journalism.columbia.edu/news/lukas-s...
journalism.columbia.edu
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation Announce Shortlists for the 2026 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project | Columbia Journalism School
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 19/02/2026
Well, this is a bit of a plot twist.
Tennessee’s House Higher Ed Subcommittee chair has withdrawn his bill to end tenure in public universities after saying he “stumbled into a little bit of the history” and “got a little deeper than I thought I would.”

“It got me to thinking about political lines, pendulums, they’re always moving … I kind of think that way about tenure,” Republican Justin Lafferty told his subcommittee Wednesday in a brief but wide-ranging explanation for dropping the bill.

According to a video of the meeting posted on the state General Assembly’s website, Lafferty said he learned tenure goes back to the 1600s or 1700s, “a time when there weren’t that many highly educated folks,” so “it was very important to keep the best and the brightest.”
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE: SCIENCE IS REAL AND BLS DATA IS NOT ACCURATE (UNLESS IT TELLS US WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR)
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The first ALPE conference is in the books and it was incredible! Over 300 presenters, 450+ people in attendance. It was great to see so many friends and comrades who have been building LPE for years among so many new faces! lawandpoliticaleconomy.org?page_id=63
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The unexpected lessons we can learn from the 2020 Census on how to handle election subversion threats.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
👇👇
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Okay I really appreciate this deep dive on the economics of whistle-printing
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