Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 24/02/2026As I collect these stories, @alroth.bsky.social Nobel prize winning paper (“The Economics of Matching: Stability and Incentives,” Mathematics of Operations Research 1982) was initially rejected by the JPE. 160
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 17/02/2026On the other site got pointed to this JPE article by Tullock from 1973 040
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Sure you have read short histories of innovation before but this one is the shortest. 010
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 09/01/2026The World Wall: a new term to describe the trading wall that is being constructed around the US by the US and others, while removing trading obstructions everywhere else. You won’t see the World Wall from space or physically, but in the economic data. 051
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Apparently I read a total of 15 books this year. So my book trade deficit is 13. 140
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Acemoglu dominance. Look at those market shares. Now this is some serious power inequality going on. 031
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 02/12/2025And this for "large language model" (evidence of a singularity?) That blip in 2011 was this "Unknown authors 2011 Journal of Financial Economics Relevance: 0.484" 000
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Went all meta on @paulgp.com 's new tool and looked to see what the trends in event studies were. 791
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 07/10/2025It has arrived. Out in December. Cover by me with ChatGPT assistance. 1112
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 21/09/2025At a conference in the US last week I was constantly trying to explain how the refusal to buy US products is running deep. 020
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 04/09/2025The abstract of this paper does provide an update of your priors if you believed there was some chance Bart knew before. 142
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I still post on X as well as here. How do I get on this list? 050
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Hey it is deserved but not even Stiglitz managed a full page of citations. 140
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Celebrating a milestone today at @alldayta.bsky.social . 100,000 student questions this past semester. If you think of nothing else, just consider your inbox! 040
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 05/05/2025When I look at this I see a decline in the division of labour with papers required to do it all from data collection to theory. 040
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 15/04/2025And there are even requirements on student admissions. 100
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I spent some more time with ChatGPT working on my book cover. I think it has come up nicely now. 060
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 07/04/2025OK this one is new. Of course, it only further weakens the weight on Alnog's contribution and also, conditional on that must surely weaken the weight on Salant's contribution. 010
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I'm thinking this citation to me in a physics paper may have been AI generated. 010
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 10/03/2025This could easily be a graph of COVID in the US from exactly 5 years ago. 020
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 25/02/2025This one is odd. It is copyright related claiming that authors own copyright so people can't upload to AI. But there is no legal opinion here nor a practical one. 230
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Hooray. From the report on the publication process. This has been need for soooooooo long. 040
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Following from DOGE, Trump has order the Treasury to stop minting pennies. In the paper (written quickly) references in the next tweet, I provide a more reasonable economic analysis of this. Substitution to nickels may eliminate savings. 361
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Entry indicates a lack of competition is quite the take. 011
