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Georg Weizsäcker

@georgweizsaecker.bsky.social
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Microeconomist, Behavioral Economist, Author of "Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication" Foto: Sebastian Wells/Ostkreuz

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 55m
Rationality
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 6h
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 18h
Oh but of course we can do more. 🇪🇺 has 10 times Russia‘s GDP, and gets a pretty good deal.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 18h
Oh but of course we can do more. 🇪🇺 has 10 times Russia‘s GDP, and gets a pretty good deal.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 18h
🇺🇦
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Funny how saying-that-something-that-is-wrong-is-right is wrong for factual statements, but does not have to be wrong for moral statements
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Polarization 2.0
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Great example for simple supply/demand thinking, by @energy-charts.bsky.social et al. Batteries for 20GW would make short-term demand much more elastic (flatter). Market prices would fluctuate less. Peak electricity price in 2025 🇩🇪 would drop, €583 to €221. 👇🏻 www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...
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“Energy-Charts” Data Platform Launches Price Simulator - Fraunhofer ISE
Fraunhofer ISE has developed a price simulator to show how the exchange electricity price would change with more battery storage systems trading on the market.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Und die des Jungen
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Great - can you link a source? (Huh, do I look forward to teaching Microeconomics 101, starting tomorrow.) At one extreme end of the spectrum, the argument about the demand curve is quite immune to supply changes: if demand is flat, the market price is stable.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Da ist viel wahres dran, und danke auch für die Erläuterung. Beim Wohnungsmarkt sind die Externalitäten auch ein viel wichtigerer Faktor.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
via @sixtus.net and @fr-zeitung.bsky.social
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Great example for simple supply/demand thinking, by @energy-charts.bsky.social et al. Batteries for 20GW would make short-term demand much more elastic (flatter). Market prices would fluctuate less. Peak electricity price in 2025 🇩🇪 would drop, €583 to €221. 👇🏻 www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...
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“Energy-Charts” Data Platform Launches Price Simulator - Fraunhofer ISE
Fraunhofer ISE has developed a price simulator to show how the exchange electricity price would change with more battery storage systems trading on the market.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Da Sie fragen - ja, sollte es sein. Ich bin ja auch für Besteuerung, aber gönnen wir doch trotzdem Anderen ihren Konsum, solang er keinen Schaden anrichtet. In der Tat wäre eine gesellschaftlich nützliche Mittelverwendung vorzuziehen, aber zwischen Konsum und Ansparen ist ersteres vllt sogar besser.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Er/sie liebt halt Michael Jordan. Das Geld auf der Bank liegen zu lassen würde ja auch niemandem helfen.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Machines acting as humans may steal a lot of our time
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Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website (Gift Article)
The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
GSS was the data source on my first paper with a wide and representative sample of households
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Science is doing essential reporting on the decimation of NSF social science funding. We need public accounting. If you’ve benefited from an NSF grant from SBE, add to this 🧵. Tell the world what was funded that will not be funded from NSF anymore. I’ll start… www.science.org/content/arti...
Graph showing the number of NSF grants over 7 years—moving to zero in 2026.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Newest idea to avoid being caught: not to vote at all
spiegel.de
Sachsen-Anhalt: CDU-Politiker empfehlen Fraktion, bei Ministerpräsidentenwahl geschlossen den Saal zu verlassen
Könnten CDU-Abgeordnete in Sachsen-Anhalt heimlich den AfD-Mann Ulrich Siegmund zum Ministerpräsidenten mitwählen? Die Sorge ist in der Union groß. Nun rückt eine mögliche Vorsichtsmaßnahme in den Fok...
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
EU Foreign Ministers just adopted nearly 1,600 new sanctions listings targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex. This is the single largest expansion of our sanctions list since Russia started its war. Europe is again showing a united front.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Measures of care
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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 12/10/2026
How much money do PhD candidates get across Europe? It really depends. Yes - taxes, purchasing power, benefits, etc., all come into play, but the differences are still staggering. #academicsky 🧪🎓 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A graph of remuneration (x-axis) for PhD candidates in different countries (y-axis). The Employment-based ones are in orange, the scholarship-based ones in blue.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Good interview highlighting our (the German universities‘) responsibility 👇🏼 bsky.app/profile/amad...
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Vandalism at a Jewish cemetary in Stendal, Germany
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"Aus einem Ort des Gedenkens wurde ein Tatort": Jüdischer Friedhof in Stendal beschädigt
Der jüdische Friedhof in Stendal ist Anfang Oktober geschändet worden. Mehrere Grabsteine wurden beschädigt, die Polizei ermittelt. Die Geschichtswerkstatt bittet um Spenden, um alles wieder instand z...
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Thank you - will read with interest
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
👆🏼 Looking forward to the announcement when the book appears
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just a thought, a potential winning strategy for 🇩🇪‘s CDU-SPD coalition would be to cut income tax and increase wealth tax
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/brit...
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Britischer Premierminister Burnham: „Merz sagte mir, die AfD sei eindeutig mit Russland verbandelt – finanziert, glaube ich“
Der britische Premier hat den Bundeskanzler vergangene Woche in Berlin getroffen. Beide hätten dabei über die wachsenden Gefahren durch feindlich gesinnte Staaten gesprochen, erklärte Burnham jetzt.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Andrius Kubilius @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu · 11/10/2026
Until now the EU was the only serious financial supporter of Ukraine, but was expecting the US political leadership will help to bring peace to Ukraine. A time comes when the EU together with Ukraine needs to elaborate and implement an independent Peace Strategy.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Die Außenpolitik ist aber in D m.E. ruhiger/besonnener als die Innenpolitik
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/wire...
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This article by Markus Linden about the CDU is interesting (especially on a day that has CDU top personnel discuss the party‘s future) He argues that Merz loses sight of rational, conservative, Christian, inclusive policies
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Article on El Nino by @christianstoecker.de 👇🏼 Very right to point out that „not easy to predict“ is the opposite of harmless. Confirmed by the sad passing of 16K people in 🇩🇪 who could not predict the heat wave.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
👆🏼An illustration of the more general impossibilty of the space that some would like to inhabit. You are either for the constitution or against it.
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fantastic thread by one of the most impressive young political scientists
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
@litschko.bsky.social @joswig.bsky.social
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
👆🏼An illustration of the more general impossibilty of the space that some would like to inhabit. You are either for the constitution or against it.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
… and aticipating this, before the next AfD proposal the CDU may tell their members of parlament to vote only Yes or No ✅ (No harm done, if they all vote No. But will they?)
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So how could a Yes-voting CDUer hide that he/she or someone else in CDU lies about his vote? — Claiming to have voted No? Non-credible, given their public record — Not answering the question ✅ Anticipating this, the next journalist may credibly say „we assume you voted Yes unless you answer“ ✅
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Greens are picking it up, too bsky.app/profile/kath...
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
@polenz.bsky.social is right to point out that only casting a No vote would have been effective to defend the constitution 👇🏼 but the journalists‘ trick was very informative still. bsky.app/profile/pole...
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Journalists by @taz.de and Focus
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Interesting trick to reveal info about secret votes 👇🏼 Journalists asked the members of parlament about their votes ex post and separately, and in one party, too many claimed to have abstained. (There were fewer abstentions overall. No hiding behind small numbers.) www.n-tv.de/politik/Beri...
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Berichte widerlegen Aussagen von CDU-Abgeordneten in Sachsen-Anhalt
Auch Tage nach der Wahl von AfD-Politiker Rausch zum Landtagspräsidenten in Sachsen-Anhalt köchelt die Gerüchteküche, woher die Ja-Stimmen kamen. Zwei Berichte zeigen nun, dass deutlich mehr CDU-Polit...
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
10/10 :)
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Good & hard questions about sanctions in this 🧵
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 10/10/2026
Finally finished @alroth.bsky.social's Moral Economics. 10/10, what an excellent read! It's filled with interesting stories, written in a very engaging and often funny manner, and also *very* persuasive. I'm afraid I'm now in favor of people being able to sell their kidney.>
Book cover of Alvin Roth's Moral Economics: What controversial transactions reveal about how markets work
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just to say that the economy loves the rule of law
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