Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 24/09/2026Studying 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 001
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Americans saved $1.5 trillion not buying Trump steaks 000
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The Mathematicians are struggling, My response to the Fields Medalists' letter joshuagans.substack.com/p/the-mathem...joshuagans.substack.comThe Mathematicians are strugglingThey don’t know how to feel about AI 130
Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 06/09/2026Assessing the role of AI-generated assessments of manuscripts in improving the quality of peer review, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35688 072
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The Hugging Face incident is a 5-alarm fire. joshuagans.substack.com/p/its-worse?...joshuagans.substack.comIt’s worseThe Hugging Face incident is bad, really bad 22410
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Come join our group at Rotman. Applications open. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...jobs.utoronto.caAssistant Professor - Strategic ManagementAssistant Professor - Strategic Management 043
Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 15/08/2026Restricting frontier AI models for exclusive evaluation prior to public release changes the cybersecurity game, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35586 081
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Not quite the SciFi scenario joshuagans.substack.com/p/not-quite-...joshuagans.substack.comNot quite the SciFi scenarioThe 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... 010
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The cybersecurity AI risk is far worse than we thought. joshuagans.substack.com/p/its-time-f...joshuagans.substack.comIt's time for some game theory ...The Hugging Face Incident 050
Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 08/08/2026Studying 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 0197
Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 29/07/2026Once 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 031
Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 24/07/2026What 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 071
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If you win the FIFA peace prize you are allowed a mulligan 000
Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 26/06/2026Trying 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 011
Reposted by Joshua GansJohn Kane @johnkane.bsky.social · 25/06/2026In 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.socialteaforteaching.podbean.comAll Day TA | Tea for TeachingImagine 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... 031
Reposted by Joshua GansCyberTaters @potato.software · 25/06/2026In 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 001
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I 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...ted.comLife lessons from an ad manAdvertising 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... 191
Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 14/06/2026Economists have studied how to persuade decision-makers; considering who transmits information without persuasion, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35312 073
Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 13/06/2026If workers enjoy tasks, automation can both increase work satisfaction while reducing pay, from @joshgans.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35309 021
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Young @tonymartin.bsky.social graduates from Harvard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz_i...youtube.comNoah Eckstein Delivers the Senior English Address | Harvard Commencement 2026YouTube video by Harvard University 010
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Building an MCP to research papers. justinross.substack.com/p/an-ai-inte... Yet another opportunity for @RefineDotInkjustinross.substack.comAn AI Interface for Research PapersThe Research Paper Isn't Dead (Yet!) 010
Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 22/05/2026Arguing 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 071
Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 21/05/2026It 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 071
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Interesting 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...nber.orgOld 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... 010
Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 15/05/2026University 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 0111
Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 13/05/2026Developing 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 021
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I 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! 150
Reposted by Joshua GansNBER @nber.org · 24/04/2026The 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 031
Reposted by Joshua GansDouglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Fantastic 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). 011
Reposted by Joshua Gansdrewfudenberg.bsky.social @drewfudenberg.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Two 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.ergosphere.blogThe machines are fine. I'm worried about us.On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable. 36621
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This would seem to be required for basic preparation. Good grief. 040
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Interesting new book by Alex Krausse, The Engine of Scientific Discovery. Available here doi.org/10.1093/oso/...doi.orgSparking discovery: How new methods and tools trigger science’s major breakthroughsAbstract. Discoveries transform our lives—through breakthrough medicines, technologies and completely new ways to understand the world. Yet one of science’ 031
Reposted by Joshua GansTim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 18/03/2026How can we tell good AI from bad? as.ft.com/r/10e94b4b-d...as.ft.comHow can we tell good AI from bad?[FREE TO READ] More lessons from the jagged frontiers of new technology 12513
Reposted by Joshua GansDariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 14/03/2026after 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 47118
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 16/03/2026This is worth 5 minutes of your time. www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui...terrygodier.comThe Last Quiet ThingYour possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking. 131
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 10/03/2026New short fun paper alert on data pricing. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...authors.elsevier.comScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books. 010
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I don't think we will have a Journopoclypse open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...open.substack.comJournopoclypse!Yeah, na. I don't think so 1133
Reposted by Joshua GansThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2026U.S. Still Enjoying Small But Loyal Followingtheonion.comU.S. Still Enjoying Small But Loyal FollowingWASHINGTON—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... 272462265
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I really get the feeling that Anthropic should have been charging more than $200m for what they provide. 020
Reposted by Joshua GansTim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Takeshi 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 15211
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 26/02/2026WTF is pro-Worker AI? open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...open.substack.comWTF is Pro-Worker AIProvoked by Acemoglu, Autor and Johnson 050
Reposted by Joshua GansFaculti @faculti.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Prediction, 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... 001
Reposted by Joshua GansFaculti @faculti.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Prediction, 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... 001