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85 million people. It’s hard to forget that the war on terror gave the world more terror. Anyways, if you see someone from Iran these days go easy on them. We didn’t choose this.

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that in order to get a hostile entity be incentivized, you have to create costs for them. Unfortunately, at this point it’s hard to see how these attacks - supported by all leaders of the “free” world - even if they lead to a regime change will bring peace, prosperity and democracy for a country of

nuclear program. We are also being bombarded at the behest of a war mongering criminal who seems like soon will be joined by another opportunist. It’s hard to describe the extent of hopelessness that this entails. As far as I can tell, wars don’t bring democracy and peace. The economist in me knows

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I don’t know if anyone actually sees this given that I never post but here it goes. If you see Iranians these days be a bit gentler with them. We are going through something horrific. Our nation is in the hand of a few individuals who don’t seem to care about anything other than having a useless

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Question for political scientists/economists: obviously trump has in numerous times tried and or successfully violated the role of law. But this is not limited to him. Obama infamously killed a U.S. citizen without due process. So my question is whether these violations are ever quantified.

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Hard to argue with Matthias here. Big loss for us and good for Europe.

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I realize maybe tit-for-tat is not the right word to use here but say I am a referee and for some idiosyncratic reason i don't like something in a paper. If I am a repeat referee I keep rejecting the paper. The tit-for-tat can happen if the authors learn my identity and use the same strategy on me!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Wouldn’t you want to avoid tit for tat behavior in refereeing?

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Statutory or the actual ones paid?

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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Just so it’s clear, the government wanted to oversee hiring and employment at a *private* institution in order to implement a purity test. When the institution refused, they took away money for life saving research (cancer etc). That’s some fascist shit.

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Oh that! Sure. I read the Atlantic, New Yorker and the Wired. Everywhere else I just follow the headlines. No reason to read the texts!!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I didn’t get the NYT part!?🤔

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Happy Norwooz! Tomorrow is the winter solstice and official start of spring ! Beyond its symbolic significance, it’s a time of cleaning. Let’s hope for this particular cleaning sometime soon (and those in the west who wish to act accordingly)!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Even when they have time, the opponents, they don’t seem to know where to run !!!(schumer)

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Yet everyday something new and unbelievable! WTH??!!

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Is the logic very different from equilibria involved in Pareto dominated strategies in infinitely repeated games?

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

there is an obscure old one that Ricky Vohra told us about by Anderson and Nash! I haven’t read it super carefully but it has some very powerful results!

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

And ignoring any experts’ advice.

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

While I think invasion of Iraq was worse for the world than trump up to now, I think there is a difference here. That was done within the confines of the democratic institutions - majority U.S. population was behind it, and some experts. What’s happening now is outside of the democratic institutions

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My personal opinion is that Hamas is ultimately responsible for all the atrocities committed by Israel. Yet, how can we possibly punish a person for simply stating they are pro Hamas?

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

People on the left might be mad at me for saying this due to her position on abortion but isn't it better if we can have a position that doesn't fit the party line and that does not warrant wanting to punch each other?

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

That is why I found the fact that someone deemed to be on the very right voted without her politics is something to celebrate. I am sure she got some angry phone calls from the orange man or the genius with the buzzsaw! Maybe something positive to hang on to but maybe too early!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

To call myself angry these days whenever I open my browser and I am not reading a math theorem is an understatement! I find it extremely difficult to see anything positive. And I was able to in '17 despite being on the receiving end of the muslim ban!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I have to admit that while people are quite shocked by the WH events today, to me this is simply just a sign of what this administration is doing. In fact, perhaps it is quite good that Zelensky decided fight back against the bogus claims. To me, we crossed a line when we voted for Russia in the UN!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Never mind!! Very hard to avoid it!!! :-(

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What happened? Sorry I try to not read the news for my alright quite high levels of anger!

But am I wrong to think that it didn’t go mainstream and in the public discourse until the 2010s?

I am afraid that until we do this, we will have to deal with their repercussions. The Mr. Apprentice is going to package and sell air and get away with it.

can generate a better society for all - including those who have historically fared better but perhaps are not doing so well at the moment (white middle-aged males) who seem to want to exact vengeance on democratic institutions that have failed them.

greenwashing; racial equity resulted in destroying statues as opposed to meaningful investment in black communities and other minorities; gender inequality is as strong as it was in workplaces. At some deep level I blame ourselves, academics, for a failure of illustrating how equity objectives ....

Is what we are saying a failure of the equity discourse of the 2010's? Perhaps. As @adamprz.bsky.social put it elegantly, the equity discourse of the 2010's seem to only have been around symbols as opposed to meaningful changes in policies or cultural changes. ESG investing became synonym with ...

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I dont know Marina! We never had this high quality institutions and see their decline in a matter of few days!! It is true that we have seen how terrible institutions lead to misery! Americans have never seen that in this scale.

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Maybe we are becoming too complacent since, last time the checks and balances worked. My hope is still for the first amendment to prevail - the ultimate pillar of democracy in the U.S. - however much platforms try to stop it.

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Perhaps the only clear thing to me is up to us academics to understand how all of a sudden every institution in a democracy fails to perform. The parties seem to be failing to grasp the severity of what is happening. The courts are failing to enforce the law. Activists are sleeping. ...

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If there was a will to stand against trump in his first term, there seem to be none now. Somehow all political institutions are failing their job in the face of the King and the Ayatollah Musk in an unprecedented way. ...

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

What is happening is quite painful to watch with the latest bowing of King Trump to Putin being the worst part of it all. For me this is the first time that I am feeling like we are collectively failing ourselves into oblivion. ...

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How can a world where writing is done by machines allow us to keep track of our human experience? It’s a world with “Homo sapiens with full-sized aortic pumps”!

Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

My wonderful friend and coauthor. Congrats!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

All this fuss over one sentence? What if our players did not have CK of the game?! Jeeeeez!

Rohit Lamba @rohitlamba.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

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0/ A holiday economic theory reading list. Some of my favorite pieces on theory that can be read with minimal sweat, but with the maximal intellectual reward. In no particular order:

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Not having a formal education of microeconomic theory means that I didn’t know Ramsey did this before Savage!!!!