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Klaus Prettner @klausprettner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A free teaching and studying resource for macroeconomics: youtube.com/playlist?lis... The playlist starts with undergraduate-level topics such as the IS-LM model and short-run macroeconomics, before moving toward more advanced material on dynamic optimization, endogenous growth, and automation.
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Macreoconomics - YouTube
This playlist contains a full course in macroeconomics, starting with introductory macroeconomics at the bachelor's level, followed by advanced macroeconomic...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We all complain about headlines on here, so we should be ready to praise this one, which gets it exactly right (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...
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White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 03/06/2026
Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year. Measles used to be an extremely common disease. Just sixty years ago, over 90% of children would have been infected by it, and of those who developed symptoms, around a quarter would be hospitalized.
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INEQ - Research Institute Economics of Inequality @ WU Vienna @ineq-wu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🎧 @wuvienna.bsky.social has launched a new knowledge podcast — and the very first episode features two INEQs. @klausprettner.bsky.social discusses the hidden costs of diabetes with @karinheitzmann.bsky.social. Listen here (only in German): wu.at/wissens-podcast #INEQ
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INEQ - Research Institute Economics of Inequality @ WU Vienna @ineq-wu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Gleich zwei INEQs in Folge 1 🎉 @klausprettner.bsky.social im Gespräch mit @karinheitzmann.bsky.social im neuen @wuvienna.bsky.social Podcast #Welthandelsplatz1. #INEQ #VoicesOfINEQ
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STITCHES Medicine - the Best of Medical Research @medicine.stitches.today · 07/01/2026
Diabetes poses a staggering economic burden of up to $152 trillion by 2050, demanding urgent global health interventions. by Chen S, Cao Z (...) Bloom DE et 7 al. in Nat Med #MedSky 👉 get more here 📖 read the article:
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The global macroeconomic burden of diabetes mellitus - Nature Medicine
An analysis of 204 countries estimates that diabetes will cost the global economy $10.2 trillion between the years 2020 and 2050.
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Diabetes affects one in ten adults globally and is projected to cost the world economy up to $152 trillion by 2050, with informal caregiving accounting for the majority of this burden. doi.org/hbh9jc
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Diabetes costs the global economy trillions, says study
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder and one of the most prevalent non-communicable diseases worldwide. On average, one in ten adults is affected.
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WU Vienna @wuvienna.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
𝐖𝐢𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐮𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬𝐭 #𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐟ü𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐟𝐭? Eine neue Studie von 𝐖𝑼-Forscher Klaus Prettner zeigt: 💵 152 Bill. USD weltweit bis 2050 (1,7 % des globalen BIP) 💵 206 Mrd. USD für Österreich (1,5% des BIP) Mehr dazu 👇️ - 📷️ © AdobeStock
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Die makroökonomischen Kosten von Diabetes
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Marcelo Rinesi @marcelorinesi.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
First order of magnitude given low median investment on health, education, infrastructure, etc it doesn't seem like population is a global constraint. Of course, Ethnocentric limits on migration *do* conjure local problems, but those have direct solutions. 1/ @klausprettner.bsky.social et al
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The Debate over Falling Fertility
A decline in global population later this century may threaten human progress, or it may lead to better lives
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INEQ - Research Institute Economics of Inequality @ WU Vienna @ineq-wu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
INEQ is now on Bluesky! ✨ Curious about research on inequality? So are we! 📈 We’re INEQ, based at @wuvienna.bsky.social. Follow us for research, publications and events on inequality. For more, visit our homepage ⬇️ ineq.at
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WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Machines don’t rebel, they redistribute. Minniti, @klausprettner.bsky.social‬ & @franceventurini.bsky.social show in EER that as #AI grows across #Europe, labour’s share of #income declines, especially among the educated. This is a precise and profit-minded revolution. doi.org/10.1016/j.eu...
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Monika Schnitzer @monika-schnitzer.com · 28/04/2025
FT: Amerikanische Studenten wechseln nach Großbritannien, da Trump US-Universitäten angreift Die Nachfrage nach britischen Studiengängen steigt nach dem Angriff des US-Präsidenten auf die Ivy-League-Institutionen. www.ft.com/content/ebb2...
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Klaus Prettner @klausprettner.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Happy to share an online PhD-level lecture on Schumpeterian #economic #growth models by @Pietro Peretto. A huge thanks to Pietro for this great lecture. I hope many students will take the opportunity to benefit from his insights. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Lecture Series by Pietro Peretto on the Schumpeterian Growth Model - YouTube
This playlist contains all videos of the lecture by Pietro Peretto on the Schumpeterian Growth Model
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Klaus Prettner @klausprettner.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Very happy to share our paper on #AI and the Skill Premium (joint work with David E Bloom, Jamel Saadaoui, and Mario Veruete), which just came out in Finance Research Letters: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Artificial intelligence and the skill premium
How will ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) affect the skill premium? To address this question, we propose a nested constant elas…
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Ina Hallström @killedbyproxy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"Economists across a broad ideological spectrum argue that investments in scientific research — especially the kind of fundamental, early-stage research that is too risky to attract private investors — are among the most efficient uses of taxpayer dollars."
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Klaus Prettner @klausprettner.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A few years ago, I started recording my #Macroeconomics #lectures focusing mainly on #Economic #Growth. Recently completed playlists are - Intermediate Macroeconomics: tinyurl.com/3e5v5jzh - Advanced Macroeconomics: tinyurl.com/37akaxxr Please feel free to use, share, and comment.
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Intermediate Macroeconomics - YouTube
This playlist contains videos on intermediate macroeconomics. These videos cover macroeconomic dynamics in the short run, in the medium run, and in the long ...
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease. That is, until January." -- Nick Kristof
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. The agony in his face…he looks overwhelmed with disbelief at the sheer cruelty.
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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Medical Innovation, Longevity, and Income Growth: Historical Evidence of Nonlinear Effects in Advanced Economies @klausprettner.bsky.social @Antonio Minniti @Michael Kuhn @urbinoeconomics.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Medical innovation, life expectancy, and economic growth
To analyze the causal effects of medical innovation on economic growth, we propose an R&D-based economic growth model with overlapping generations, wherein
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
17 THOUGHTS ON THE DEEPSEEK SELLOFF In today's newsletter, I tried my hand at writing about "what it all means" Sub to the newsletter here: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
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NBER @nber.org · 27/01/2025
Learning by doing in the global electric vehicle battery sector is estimated at 7.5 percent and accounted for 35.5 percent of battery cost reductions from 2013–2020, from Panle Jia Barwick, Hyuk-Soo Kwon, Shanjun Li, and Nahim B. Zahur www.nber.org/papers/w33378
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Andreas Sator @asator.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Der US-Arbeitsmarkt seit 1880.
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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Our Daily Data Insight today — the world has passed “peak child.”
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Michael Peneder @mipenec.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
@wifo.bsky.social Austrian microdata show that average markups have increased in many non-tradable services, with a self-reinforcing dynamic strengthening firms already at the top of the distribution. Find out more in our WIFO Research Brief: www.wifo.ac.at/publication/...
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Winners-take-More: Firm-level Evidence on the State of Competition in Austria
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 04/12/2024
An attempt by the popular video-sharing app TikTok to assuage EU lawmakers' concerns backfired yesterday, as company executives faced hostile politicians questioning its role in ultranationalist Călin Georgescu's win in the recent first-round of Romania's presidential election.
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‘We are getting fed up’: EU lawmakers snap at TikTok over Romanian election
TikTok executives fail to ease concerns of EU politicians that it skewed the Romanian vote.
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"This results in eurozone growth of 0.8% for 2025, notably below the 1.2% consensus. We look for the weakest growth in Germany (0.3%), followed by Italy (0.6%) and France (0.7%), with Spain again outperforming notably (2%)." - Goldman Sachs
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Histograms of the world's population by Bill Rankin Data is from 2000. In the 21st century, Africa's population will continue to increase greatly.
Maps of the globe with histograms showing where populations are distributed. One map shows results by latitude and the other shows results by longitude. People are concentrated in the northern hemisphere and in Asia. The data is from 2000. In the 21st century, Africa's population will continue to increase greatly.
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Economist: "Excited to share a new working paper about this event that just happened a week ago!" Also economist: "Excited to see this paper finally published after 5 kids, 3 moves, 2 tenures, and 25 years later."
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This is great on battery innovation www.construction-physics.com/p/how-we-got...
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How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery
It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was possible.
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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Few people even know about this; when people are asked in surveys how child mortality has changed the majority says it has stagnated or increased. If you consider that many don't know about humanity's biggest achievement, then it's not surprising that many are so pessimistic about our future.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
We live in amazing times.
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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:
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The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries
Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Here’s a crazy fact for you: Spain and Germany have now seen basically the exact same amount of economic growth post-2008. Would have been unthinkable to people during most of the 2010s. Spain has seen ~10 percentage points more cumulative growth since 2017.
A graph comparing Spanish and German gdp, which diverge in 2008 but reconverge between 2017-2024
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
the fallout from the Francesca Gino research misconduct scandal isn't over. @engber.bsky.social writes about how an effort by some of her colleagues to self-audit their work with her ended up raising even more questions — for them personally and their whole field www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.
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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data. Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API. ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...
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We've made it much easier to reuse our data
An overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.
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Martin Halla @mhalla.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Where are the young #MacroEconomists? Wann join us @WU in Vienna, Austria. The Department of Economics invites applications for a non-tenure track Assistant Professor position (Post-Doc) in Macroeconomics. Apply via EJM (econjobmarket.org) or @WU: www.wu.ac.at/karriere/arb...
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Martin Halla @mhalla.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP) - Austria has started a long-term household panel survey like the GSOEP. The first wave of wave data is already available (here: aussda.at/en/news-deta...). A special feature of ASEP is that it is register(!!) based. This has two nice features, see below
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New and exlusively available at AUSSDA: Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP) Data
We are pleased to announce that a new, Austria-wide survey programme is now available at AUSSDA.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
“We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income percentile yields more than $12 in revenue, while audits of below-median income taxpayers yield $5.”
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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
How AI affects income distribution and regional disparities? Evidence from Europe.. with Antonio Minniti, Klaus Prettner @ssrn.bsky.social @wuvienna.bsky.social @niesrorg.bsky.social
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Unslicing the Pie: AI Innovation and the Labor Share in European Regions
This paper studies how the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) affects the distribution of income between capital and labor, and how these shifts may co
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