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Joshua Gans

@joshgans.bsky.social
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Professor at University of Toronto

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NBER @nber.org · 24/09/2026
Studying how advertising claims direct consumers to different customer experiences, and how prices change the available evidence, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35770
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Americans saved $1.5 trillion not buying Trump steaks
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Mathematicians are struggling, My response to the Fields Medalists' letter joshuagans.substack.com/p/the-mathem...
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The Mathematicians are struggling
They don’t know how to feel about AI
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
joshuagans.substack.com/p/you-dont-m...
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NBER @nber.org · 06/09/2026
Assessing the role of AI-generated assessments of manuscripts in improving the quality of peer review, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35688
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You and your fancy Stanford theories.
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Hugging Face incident is a 5-alarm fire. joshuagans.substack.com/p/its-worse?...
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It’s worse
The Hugging Face incident is bad, really bad
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Come join our group at Rotman. Applications open. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Assistant Professor - Strategic Management
Assistant Professor - Strategic Management
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NBER @nber.org · 15/08/2026
Restricting frontier AI models for exclusive evaluation prior to public release changes the cybersecurity game, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35586
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Not quite the SciFi scenario joshuagans.substack.com/p/not-quite-...
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Not quite the SciFi scenario
The other day I wrote about the Hugging Face incident whereby a group of AI agents worked out how to access the internet when they weren’t supposed to be able to do it, cooperate and share information...
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The cybersecurity AI risk is far worse than we thought. joshuagans.substack.com/p/its-time-f...
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It's time for some game theory ...
The Hugging Face Incident
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NBER @nber.org · 08/08/2026
Studying jobs in which workers value both producing useful output and knowing that output depends on their own contribution, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35559
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I only barely keep up.
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NBER @nber.org · 29/07/2026
Once the price of passive equity stakes to the government and a firm's policy exposure are determined in equilibrium, the owners' consent reveals nothing about whether they benefit, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35518
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NBER @nber.org · 24/07/2026
What makes AI economically valuable? AI is used by humans to make decisions. The optimal way to train or benchmark AI depends on that joint use, in a formal decision-theoretic way, from Kevin A. Bryan and @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35490
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If you win the FIFA peace prize you are allowed a mulligan
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NBER @nber.org · 26/06/2026
Trying to purify a metric to reducing gaming in markets can backfire when a metric feeds into prices but not when it feeds into rank/position, from @joshgans.bsky.social and Scott Duke Kominers www.nber.org/papers/w35363
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John Kane @johnkane.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In today's Tea for Teaching podcast, @joshgans.bsky.social joins us to discuss the impact of generative AI on learning, labor markets, and All-Day TA, an app designed to enhance student learning and to provide feedback to professors. teaforteaching.podbean.com/e/all-day-ta/ @cyberthread.bsky.social
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All Day TA | Tea for Teaching
Imagine having a virtual clone of yourself to assist your students whenever they need help and would track where students are struggling. In this episode, Joshua Gans joins us to discuss an attempt at...
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CyberTaters @potato.software · 25/06/2026
In today's Tea for Teaching podcast, @joshgans.bsky.social joins us to discuss the impact of generative BO on learning, labor markets, and All-Day TA, an app designed to enhance student learning and to provide feedback to professors. teaforteaching.podbean.com/e/all-day-ta/ @cyberthread.bsky.social
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I watched this talk 17 years ago and then couldn't find it again but it just popped up. It is the best talk I have ever heard on marketing and beyond. Do yourself a favour and watch it. You won't regret it. www.ted.com/talks/rory_s...
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Life lessons from an ad man
Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as...
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NBER @nber.org · 14/06/2026
Economists have studied how to persuade decision-makers; considering who transmits information without persuasion, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35312
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NBER @nber.org · 13/06/2026
If workers enjoy tasks, automation can both increase work satisfaction while reducing pay, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35309
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Young @tonymartin.bsky.social graduates from Harvard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz_i...
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Noah Eckstein Delivers the Senior English Address | Harvard Commencement 2026
YouTube video by Harvard University
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Building an MCP to research papers. justinross.substack.com/p/an-ai-inte... Yet another opportunity for @RefineDotInk
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An AI Interface for Research Papers
The Research Paper Isn't Dead (Yet!)
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NBER @nber.org · 22/05/2026
Arguing that the assumption that empirical measures of AI’s wage effect typically hold fixed the bundle of activities a worker is paid for at its pre-AI shape hides much of the action, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35211
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NBER @nber.org · 21/05/2026
It is often optimal to choose two contrasting experiments than more other experiments to determine entrepreneurial strategy, from @joshgans.bsky.social and Luca Gius www.nber.org/papers/w35207
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Interesting new paper on precisely when and from whom the innovations that led to the current commercial space revolution came from. www.nber.org/papers/w3521...
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Old Space, New Space: A Commercial Revolution in Innovation?
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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NBER @nber.org · 15/05/2026
University grades permit informative comparisons across courses only when transcripts recover comparable student signals through course-adjusted “eigengrades,”. Exact difficulty adjustment removes incentives to choose easier courses, from @joshgans.bsky.social and Kominers www.nber.org/papers/w35183
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NBER @nber.org · 13/05/2026
Developing a dynamic model in which a founder chooses between stealthy and public experiments while potential entrants infer from both actions and outcomes, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35172
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I read this paper yesterday. Very interesting including the notion that the very existence of AI might actually encourage more learning even if it isn't used!
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NBER @nber.org · 24/04/2026
The most favorable environment for entrepreneurial entry is neither low or high variance but somewhere in between, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35091
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Books in hand.
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Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Fantastic panel on the role of agentic AI in research, hosted by @strategicmgmt.bsky.social and Sukhun Kang, with @mattbeane.bsky.social, Gwendolyn Lee, @cgartenberg99.bsky.social, @joshgans.bsky.social. Image from Claudine Gartenberg. It's a new world (with lots of unanswered questions).
A 2x2 graph showing which tasks are automatable (simple, routine), and which still need deep human engagement (novel, complex).
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Cc @alroth.bsky.social
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drewfudenberg.bsky.social @drewfudenberg.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Two thoughtful essays about the impact of LLMs on graduate education: ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma... economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul... From personal experience I think the self-control problem mentioned in the first essay is very real.
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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This would seem to be required for basic preparation. Good grief.
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Interesting new book by Alex Krausse, The Engine of Scientific Discovery. Available here doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
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Sparking discovery: How new methods and tools trigger science’s major breakthroughs
Abstract. Discoveries transform our lives—through breakthrough medicines, technologies and completely new ways to understand the world. Yet one of science’
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 18/03/2026
How can we tell good AI from bad? as.ft.com/r/10e94b4b-d...
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How can we tell good AI from bad?
[FREE TO READ] More lessons from the jagged frontiers of new technology
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
after a night of russian missile attacks on Ukraine, I decided my saturday needed something stupid and fun. so I built a random econ paper title generator. current favorite: Craft Beer Variety as an Instrument for Public Trust in Economists small joys. dariia-m.github.io/econ-title-g... #Econsky
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is worth 5 minutes of your time. www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui...
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The Last Quiet Thing
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New short fun paper alert on data pricing. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I don't think we will have a Journopoclypse open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...
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Journopoclypse!
Yeah, na. I don't think so
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Don’t change the regime and just take the oil?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2026
U.S. Still Enjoying Small But Loyal Following
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U.S. Still Enjoying Small But Loyal Following
WASHINGTON—While the nation’s mainstream popularity has largely diminished in recent years, sources confirmed this week that the United States still retains a passionate fan base composed of a few ext...
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I really get the feeling that Anthropic should have been charging more than $200m for what they provide.
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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Takeshi Amemiya, my colleague and friend for many decades, has died at age 90. He made fundamental contributions to econometrics, having, as an empirical scholar, some gripes with the available toolkit. In retirement, he taught a course on the Economics of Ancient Greece. /1
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
WTF is pro-Worker AI? open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...
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WTF is Pro-Worker AI
Provoked by Acemoglu, Autor and Johnson
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Faculti @faculti.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Prediction, Decision-MIf artificial intelligence is best understood as a technology of prediction, how does that reshape who makes decisions, who captures value, and who sets the rules of modern markets? @joshgans.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @econuoft.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/the-microeco...
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Faculti @faculti.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Prediction, Decision-MIf artificial intelligence is best understood as a technology of prediction, how does that reshape who makes decisions, who captures value, and who sets the rules of modern markets? @joshgans.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @econuoft.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/the-microeco...
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