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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

OTD in 1951 first deportations of Operation Osen began. 20,000 Lithuanians were forcibly deported to Siberia as USSR continued to "liberate them from fascism" 6 years after WW2 ended Imagine mass deportations happening today...

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

But in this case the market design people of Hungary, spearheaded by Péter Biró, who sometimes kicks my ass in football, gave a hand. Al Roth posted about it. marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/02/kidn...

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Kidney exchange comes to Hungary

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Well the first statement is definitely true.

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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Wagner mercenaries are turning West Africa’s gold fields into killing grounds. From Sudan to the Central African Republic (CAR), Russian-backed forces loot, murder, and smuggle gold and other resources to bankroll Moscow’s war in Ukraine. united24media.com/world/how-mu...

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How Much Gold Is Russia Bleeding from Africa to Fund Its War?

Russian-backed forces are turning West Africa’s gold mines into killing grounds. They loot, murder, and smuggle gold to bankroll Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Best guess on why UA losses > RU losses in vehicles? How about manpower?

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

the nitpickers do not matter; the main point is that Ivan Gorchev did win the Nobel Prize at the age of twenty-one." Jenő Rejtő (a.k.a. P. Howard in English): The Fourteen-Carat Car.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

won the Nobel Prize in Physics at the card game called Macao, from Professor Noah Bertinus, to whom this award was presented in Stockholm a few days earlier by the King of Sweden, but in the end,

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"Ivan Gorchev, the sailor of the cargo ship Rangoon, was not even twenty-one years old when he won the Nobel Prize. To win such a major scientific award at such a poetically young age is an unprecedented feat, even if it may seem like a cosmetic flaw to some that Ivan Gorchev

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Not a meme this year but let's go.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

For your consideration:

Poster: THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECOLOGY 2025
Kyrylo Budanov Vasyl Maluk
Robert Brovdi
"for reducing fossil fuel production in russia"
THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET

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Erik Mohlin @karlerikmohlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Lund University Department of Economics is hiring in Microeconomic Theory! The department combines high academic standards with a very friendly atmosphere. Lund is a lovely university town with excellent links to the rest of the world. Six year tenture track: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

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EJM - Econ Job Market

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

My favorite conversations are when people invoke market failures and it turns out that it's true, except that the failure was created by government policy.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

You only have set difference? No unions, intersections, or complements? Because if it's just the one set operation used consistently, A - B may be rationalizable (but those who sacrifice rigor for popularity deserve neither and shall lose both) but if you use the others, then for sure not.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The first Roman calendar started counting from March. Before Caesar and Augustus they even had Quintilis and Sextilis. Which means if it wasn't for Augustus we'd have a whole month of Sex in the summer.

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kapitoška @mathan.dev · 31/07/2025

@safety.bsky.app You have suspended a prominent Ukrainian account, one of the very few that is covering daily russian attacks, as a result of report bombing. Please unban Mira of Kyiv @reshetz.bsky.social

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Imagine if all that effort could go into bringing students quality education on the nature and cost of inequality? Or on effective policies to deal with the cost of living crisis? Or environmentally sustainable growth? Nothing would please us, students and teachers, more.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

...allow professors to condense the theory without having to make too many comprises on quality. In fact, a lot of existing innovation effort is already directed to make economics education easier and lighter on math, something that a lot of professors are uncomfortable with.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

To unpack (2), I note that economics, even the modern, much more empirically-minded science, is a highly mathematical field. Students who struggle in our classrooms tend to be the ones who hated math in high school. Focusing more on math background at the admission level would...

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

To speed up innovation, I'd call for two things. (1) start teaching economics in high schools. This would add slack to the tight university curriculum (incidentally, it might also solve many problems flowing from economic illiteracy, such as low-quality cricism). (2) changing admission requirements.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Anyone who feels economic education needs reform, especially along the lines mentioned are invited to look deeper. Also keep in mind that a personal dislike of results or rehashed arguments from the 80s on the limits of neoclassical economics is not a valuable contribution at this point.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This presents a difficulty. For the outside observer (good-faith or not) it's probably unclear whether and where the curriculum is evolving. But it is! And even 17 years ago I have been thought externalities, public goods, and the environmentally responsible management of (non-)renewable resources.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Both types of solutions have advantages and disadvantages. Which is great because we are producing more diverse economists and we can leverage the advantages of both while keeping each other honest. But innovate or not, the core subjects are (and should remain) still Micro, Macro, and Metrix.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Some departments simplify the material and condense the theory to make room for more content (especially for critical reviews of neoclassical results). Some departments stick to rigorous theory due to a combination of inertia, professional conservativism, or just a lack of resources to innovate.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The picture the op-ed is painting is difficult to reconcile with reality for people who study and teach economics. The field has changed a LOT in the last two decades. Economics professors have devoted a LOT of time to rethink how much theory students need and have come up with various solutions.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

...or, if you just want more electives and add to the optional "softer" classes, you'll need to make arguments for economic departments to invest into these fields and employ professors focused on them. You can best do this by producing quality research on those topics (again, not attempted).

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

(b) is annoying because it leaves little wiggle room for curricula. If you want to add stuff, you'll have to remove stuff. You'd have to make a compelling argument why Micro, Macro, or Metrix shouldn't be taught to economics students... (most people don't attempt this)

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Annoyingly, all three core subjects are (a) theory-heavy, (b) absolutely necessary for economists. (a) is annoying because there is a series of building blocks students have to go through in order to understand the material. You can't start most 18-year-olds on partial differential equations.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

There will be other, "softer" classes. In Hungary, I've taken stuff like general philosophy, history of economic thought, economic history, economic law, EU integration (yawn), and accounting (pain). Based on what I've seen in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Spain, this is run of the mill.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

When you enter an economics program, these three will be the core subjects you'll take. There will be thematic classes with different names but they'll clearly belong on one of the three groups (e.g., international trade-> Macro, stochastic processes-> 'Metrix, environmental economics(!!!)-> Micro).

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The majority of economics is three core subjects organized around two topics: (1) Micro, how economic decisions are made (by individuals, groups, or firms) and (2) Macro, how country-level economic phenomena evolve under various policies. The third thing is (3) Econometrics, the statistical toolkit.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I don't usually post but I'll make an exception for this. (Why) are economics curricula outdated? Reflecting on this... writing. www.ft.com/content/9aab...

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Angelo Romano @aromano.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

🚨New article in Proc B: "Reciprocity evolves more readily in competitive than cooperative socio-ecologies" Using agent-based evolutionary models, we show that reciprocity emerges more reliably in competitive environments with high exploitation risk. 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Reciprocity evolves more readily in competitive than cooperative socio-ecologies | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Tracking what others did and matching other’s expected actions is seen across a range of biological systems. As reciprocal matching rewards and reinforces cooperators and punishes and discourages non-...

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I see a higher order mistake more often — attributing to economists a straw man version of economics that is not representative of the field.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Pretty sure it's the Nobel Foundation that established it, not "the economists". I for sure wasn't asked. But if you think this makes economists worthy of mockery, by all means mock away. I find the salt very entertaining so I'll mock back relentlessly. I'll try to find a better meme for next year.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

"Oh it's that time of the year again"

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

TIL that the People's Republic of Hungary was supplying the US with drugs for decades, sparked a methaqualone epidemic that killed tens of thousands, and my granddad helped put an end to it.

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A nagy titkosszolgálati drogjátszma – amikor a magyar Chinoin látta el kábítószerrel Amerikát | Válasz Online

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

At least once a year, someone reaches to me about constructing "better" metrics to rank academics. Please stop. xkcd.com/2899

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Goodhart's Law

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Oh yeah I meant the "global history" literature (a new term for me btw). But I always understood this as something trendy for left-leaning amateur historians who call the Mongols "feminists", "tolerant", "abolitionist" etc. I had no idea that serious(-looking) literature exists on this. Cool piece.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

I don't get the recent fascination with Mongols and portraying them as anything other than a brutal and catastrophic force. Centuries of slavery, genocide of epic proportions, mass rape... and now they're progressive? Even for medieval standards, this is super strange for me.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Interview week of EconJobMarket be like...

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

One of the most French things that keeps happening to me is receive an email from an administrator that requires my "urgent attention", I reply in *one minute* only to receive an autoreply saying that the person is on holiday for the next two weeks.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

They did this cos a "fascist, hitlerite uprising financed by the west" broke out. Imagine using such a bullshit excuse in the 21st century. Imagine Hungary being run by a man sympathetic to us

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

OTD in 1956 several armored Soviet humanitarian divisions, with equipment bought from a shop, went on a "special military operation" to Hungary to liberate the locals from themselves.

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