Reposted by Periklis DaflosKlaus Seipp @klausseipp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Im Nachgang zum Podcast noch drei kleine Erklärartikel auf meinem Substack. klausseipp.substack.com/p/die-rente-...klausseipp.substack.comDie Rente ist sicherIhr müsst nicht einmal daran glauben 022
Reposted by Periklis DaflosEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I wrote the latest of my occasional guides to which AI to use right now for non-experts who want to get stuff done. The agentic systems available to everyone are getting extremely powerful (even as the names and features continue to be really confusing): www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinion...oneusefulthing.orgAn opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuffThe Summer 2026 Edition 512522
Reposted by Periklis DaflosTim Duffy @timfduffy.com · 29/06/2026Neat chart from @bswud.bsky.social showing that high cumulative doses of radiation can be well-tolerated if spread out over time. I recommend the attached article and the publication Works in Progress in general. worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to... 1506
Reposted by Periklis DaflosKlaus Seipp @klausseipp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Ein Gespenst geht um in Deutschland. Die Angst vor der #Deindustriealsierung und dem wirtschaftlichen Abstieg. Wie immer neigt die Debatte zu Alarmismus und starken Übertreibungen. Kaum aber Jemand hinterfragt, ob die #Industrie tatsächlich Deutschlands Zukunft sein kann. 🧵1/9 141
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 30/03/2026Though you should probably check out the way more in-depth series from @paulgp.com instead! 030
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 30/03/2026In the past few weeks, I’ve shown Claude Code to (economist) friends & colleagues and, as a byproduct, created a presentation around using Claude Code for Economic Research. I‘ve now turned that presentation into a more in-depth blog post that you can find here: perikl.is/posts/2026/c...perikl.isUsing Claude Code for Economic ResearchA short guide for using Claude Code to do economic research 1204
Reposted by Periklis DaflosDavid Beckworth @davidbeckworth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Delighted to have Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde back on the pod this week. We cover demographic decline, the robustness of dollar dominance, AI, and whether his vast expertise defies comparative advantage! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRvI...youtube.comJesús Fernández-Villaverde on the Quandary of Global Demographic Decline | Macro MusingsYouTube video by Macro Musings with David Beckworth 084
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 22/02/2026A level-headed analysis on the labor regulations in Europe that are hampering innovation, with examples (in Europe!) of how to improve in this space. worksinprogress.co/issue/why-eu...worksinprogress.coWhy Europe doesn’t have a Tesla - Works in Progress MagazineEurope's cutting edge firms are falling far behind the American frontier because of restrictive labor laws. 000
Reposted by Periklis DaflosDezernat Zukunft @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Zeit für ein historisches Comeback: Lässt sich die Krise der deutschen Industrie wieder umkehren? Das erörtern @therealmaxpower.bsky.social und @philippasigl.bsky.social im neuen #Geldbrief anhand relevanter Beispiele aus der Geschichte. Jetzt lesen ⬇️ 131
Reposted by Periklis DaflosEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 07/01/2026I wrote about Claude Code and why non-coders should be paying attention (and playing with the system) - it shows what today’s LLMs can do Along the way I had Claude launch a business for me & build a game that simulates the rise and fall of civilizations. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...open.substack.comClaude Code and What Comes NextWith the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things 17514
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 07/01/2026Also, if you want to replace RA classification work via an LLM API, going with an Open-Source LLM (nowadays quite capable) and a low model temperature might improve replicability. In this case you should also try different model parameters for robustness, especially now that the APIs are so cheap. 020
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 07/01/2026I think it’s worth emphasizing how good Claude Code is in VSCode nowadays. Both for quick prototyping (e.g., building zero-shot streamlit GUIs for classification tasks) but also for important code/ debugging. For the latter, it’s important to iterate slowly in order to be able to verify the code. 110
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 02/01/2026A very thoughtful piece on the current state of the credibility revolution in Macro. carloschavezp29.substack.com/p/why-macro-...carloschavezp29.substack.comWhy Macro Never Had a Credibility RevolutionAnd Where Macro and Micro Are Converging Now 000
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 14/12/2025Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...youtube.comAre we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10YouTube video by Canonical Ubuntu 000
Reposted by Periklis DaflosLauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 09/12/2025I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...open.substack.comHow Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through itI wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power. 44899362
Reposted by Periklis DaflosChristian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Do you know which places in Europe are digitalising fast? #Berlin and Greece. No, seriously. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...economist.comGreece is teaching Germany how to get government onlineA legendary bureaucracy is making Olympian efforts at digitalisation 2226
Reposted by Periklis DaflosMartin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 20/11/2025What's the matter with Germany? Because it's not what you think it is. on.ft.com/4raAAk3on.ft.comGermany’s problems are worse than you think[FREE TO READ] It’s not as simple as blaming the unravelling of the global trading system 5157
Reposted by Periklis DaflosStefan Sell @stefan-sell.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Immer mehr Waren rollen über Europas Straßen. In Deutschland gibt es täglich rund 800.000 Lkw-Fahrten. Viele Aufträge landen bei osteuropäischen Subunternehmen. Niedrige Löhne und harte Bedingungen prägen den Alltag der Fahrer.DLF-Sendung. Audio: www.deutschlandfunk.de/lkw-fahrer-i...deutschlandfunk.deLkw-Transporte in Europa: Die Schattenseite des Warenverkehrs800.000 Lkw-Fahrten gibt es täglich in Deutschland. Viele Fahrer aus Osteuropa arbeiten für wenig Lohn unter harten Bedingungen. 082
Reposted by Periklis DaflosGeorg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 18/11/2025A data source dries up 373
Reposted by Periklis DaflosHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/11/2025Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.github.comGitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no capdplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub. 42460166
Reposted by Periklis DaflosEconometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 24/10/2025A widely held view is that the Gini coefficient is not decomposable by subgroups. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework that ensures well-behaved within and between-group terms under which the Gini is decomposable with a novel and unique formula. buff.ly/XdnzG6F 03213
Reposted by Periklis DaflosEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 19/10/2025I wrote an updated guide on which AIs to use right now, & some tips on how to use them (and how to avoid falling into some common traps) A lot has changed since I last wrote a guide like this in the spring, and AI has gotten much more useful as a result. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...open.substack.comAn Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right NowWhat AI to use in late 2025 515227
Reposted by Periklis DaflosGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 07/10/2025The incredible numbers - an actual trillion of investment, via an unquoted start up - and circularities (Nvidia investing in OpenAI and Intel, OpenAi in AMD, billion dollar purchases paid with stock, the cash, where's the cash etc? - are just mind boggling on.ft.com/4mNOdChon.ft.comOpenAI’s computing deals top $1tnPartners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman’s huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence 3239
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 16/09/2025Sehr lesenswerter Artikel zur katastrophalen Lage von Studierenden aus Südasien an privaten deutschen Hochschulen taz.de/Junge-Inder-...taz.deJunge Inder in Deutschland: Das Geschäft mit den StudisRitik Yadav und Shivam Kumar kamen zum Studium an einer Privat-Uni nach Deutschland. Jetzt arbeiten sie beim Lieferdienst und in der Gastro. 010
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 09/08/2025Crazy that this is in such a stark contrast to manufactoring labor productivity in Germany (not quite the same statistic though: different timeline & output per worker, from here: www.wirtschaftsdienst.eu/inhalt/jahr/... ) 040
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 31/07/2025Related reporting: www.ft.com/content/7052...ft.comWhat’ll happen if we spend nearly $3tn on data centres no one needs?Nineties adults remember 1101
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 22/07/2025You can order these online through various online shops, here's an overview PDF with some shops on the third page: assets.adac.de/image/upload...assets.adac.de 050
Reposted by Periklis DaflosAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 03/07/2025Ooh, @posit.co's Positron is no longer in beta as of this week(!), and it recently added support for DuckDB databases in the Connections Pane positron.posit.co/connections-... - any db connection you add with {connections} shows up there—this is magical! #rstats 48923
Reposted by Periklis DaflosAlice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Why is Scandinavia the Most Gender Equal Place in the World? My two part series weaves economic history, sociology, and my own qualitative research 1) www.ggd.world/p/why-is-sca... 2) www.ggd.world/p/why-is-sca... 22411
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 20/06/2025I wonder what the results of this paper would look like today, after many years of speed optimizations in many programming languages www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/com...sas.upenn.edu 010
Reposted by Periklis DaflosJacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Very nice article on rising market power and the fall of the labour share www.chicagobooth.edu/review/are-e...chicagobooth.eduAre Employers Playing a Game of Monopsony?Labor’s share of national income has fallen, and competition for workers may have something to do with it. 1116
Reposted by Periklis DaflosLuca Fornaro @lucafornaro.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Olivier Blanchard argues that we should understand better the macroeconomics of the medium run, and I could not agree more. Since I have been working on this for a while, let me show you why this is a promising field for young researchers! 2498
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 26/03/2025Amazing piece on how recent TV shows haven't been that great, actually: www.readtrung.com/p/the-case-a...readtrung.comThe Case Against Streaming TV ShowsNew streaming TV shows ask for a 20-30 hour time commitment. Unlike network TV, you will often be binge-ing alone and may never even get a pay-off (or the pay-off will suck). 010
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 22/02/2025The blog post linked at the end of this thread (and the thread itself) is a very nice summary of recent research on how cross-gender friendships affect gender equality, check it out! The corresponding working paper can be found here: www.nber.org/papers/w33480nber.orgCross-Gender Social Ties Around the WorldFounded 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... 000
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 17/12/2024See also this complementary paper on Macroeconomic ABM: doi.org/10.1007/s001...doi.orgDrawing on different disciplines: macroeconomic agent-based models - Journal of Evolutionary EconomicsMacroeconomic modelling has been under intense scrutiny since the Great Financial Crisis, when serious shortcomings were exposed in the methodology used to understand the economy as a whole. Criticism... 000
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 17/12/2024After reading this paper, I don't understand why ABM hasn't found its way into modern Macro yet, especially as ABM is basically the definition of Microfoundations. doi.org/10.1093/oxre...doi.orgAn interdisciplinary model for macroeconomicsAbstract. Macroeconomic modelling has been under intense scrutiny since the Great Financial Crisis, when serious shortcomings were exposed in the methodolo 100
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 15/12/2024The same guy also has a wonderful Econ PhD placements dataset on his website btw: pablogguz.shinyapps.io/econphd_plac...pablogguz.shinyapps.ioThe Econ PhD placements dataset 000
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 15/12/2024It looks like not all Germans living in Spain are living in Mallorca after all! (Map created with a tool by Pablo García-Guzmán: pablogguz.shinyapps.io/dataviz_migr...) 100
Reposted by Periklis DaflosEvan Peck @peck.phd · 20/11/2024Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1... 921577458
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 21/11/2024Auf Anhieb vielleicht die "Bilder des Tages" der SZ? www.sueddeutsche.de/thema/Bildersueddeutsche.deBilder - aktuelle Themen & Nachrichten - SZ.deMenüSuchenSüddeutsche ZeitungMenüSuchenSüddeutsche ZeitungSZ PlusSZ PlusSZ PlusSZ PlusSZ PlusSZ PlusSZ PlusSZ PlusSZ PlusSZ PlusSZ PlusSZ PlusSZ PlusSZ Pl... 000
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 21/11/2024For anyone who's looking for (some of) the other chapters, they are all neatly organized here: www.rfberlin.com/discussion-p...rfberlin.comDiscussion papersDiscussion Papers On this page, you’ll find discussion papers from the Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin) and Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), as well as early-access chap... 000
Periklis Daflos @perikl.is · 19/11/2024The cutting-edge version of this can be found here, a Shrek-Redneck song with an accompanying music video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppyF...youtube.comShrek - Redneck Fairytale (Official Music Video)YouTube video by demonflyingfox 000
