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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This was a difficult paper to write. steffenhuck.github.io/drafts/

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Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

this story about @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social and @steffenhuck.bsky.social is irresistible so i had to break the no LinkedIn rule. try out the game dedicated to Georg by Steffen: steffenhuck.github.io/kicktext/

In the mid-1990s, I spent many long nights with Georg Weizsäcker playing a football manager game. We became mildly obsessed.

Eventually we won everything: the league, the cup, and the European Cup.

The program crashed.

Apparently, the developers hadn’t anticipated that someone might actually complete the full set. That was the end of our managerial careers.

I still have very fond memories of those nights.

So, thirty years later, I decided to build a tiny football manager game of my own. It’s called Kicktext, and it’s dedicated to Georg.

It’s much simpler than today’s management games, and even simpler than the one we played back then. But building a successful club is still quite tricky. At least that’s what I found.

If you do play it, let me know whether you manage to break this one, too.

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

👇🏼 Please see below and if you hear of club with a vacant management… Incredible nice, thank you @steffenhuck.bsky.social! Kicktext is fun and rejuvenating!

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This should not exist. the-institute.ch

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The Economic Journal @theeconjournal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Last chance to read The Economic Journal Lab Experiments virtual issue papers Free to View for a limited time. @resmedia.bsky.social @steffenhuck.bsky.social

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Twenty years of research on charitable giving and fundraising - summarised in five chapters. steffenhuck.github.io/fundraising/...

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Twenty Years of Asking

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Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Someone sent me a play about an electron. steffenhuck.github.io/the-electron/

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The Electron — Steffen Huck

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The Economic Journal @theeconjournal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

📣Hot off the press! 🆕 @EJ_RES virtual issue – Lab Experiments – out now. Featuring a foreword by Steffen Huck. Learn more and read the issue👉 bit.ly/4rb6uMy @resmedia.bsky.social @academic.oup.com @steffenhuck.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/acad...

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WZB Berlin @wzb.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲: That was the title of the distinguished lecture by 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗵𝗶𝗼𝗻 at the WZB a couple of years ago. We obviously have a good nose for Nobel Laureates! Thanks to @steffenhuck.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs4D...

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Rethinking Growth: The Schumpeterian Perspective

YouTube video by WZBlive

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Our special issue for the EER in memory of Nora blooms. We have now thirteen published papers and I cherish how the authors span the entire range from superstars to young talents. You can explore them here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... More exciting contributions are on the way.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Curious to hear if others see this tension in their fields too.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Journals want AI input flagged. But no one is forced to flag help from colleagues or hidden labor in RA factories — restrictions on AI risk entrenching privilege instead of correcting it.

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WZB Berlin @wzb.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Wir gratulieren WZB-Fellow Jan Stöß zur Ernennung als Staatsekretär des Verteidigungsministeriums! Hier lest ihr sein Gespräch mit WZB-Forschungsprofessor @steffenhuck.bsky.social zum „Preis der Sicherheit“ aus den WZB-Mitteilungen von September 2023👇

bibliothek.wzb.eu

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Isn’t it beautiful how the left now hopes that markets will save democracy?

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A pat on the back of Editors, Associate Editors, Referees, Administration, ... of the Economic Journal @resmedia.bsky.social

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I have a postdoc position in Behavioral/Experimental Economics available for 6 years, at the oldest university in Germany in beautiful Heidelberg. Please forward to anyone who might be interested! #EconJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd #Economics #JobAlert

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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Ein Text von @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social, @hannakienzler.bsky.social und mir. Wir argumentieren, dass die verstärkte Übernahme rechter Politik durch die Parteien der sogenannten Mitte eng mit Deutschlands Unterstützung von Israels Völkerrechtsverbrechen zusammenhängt. taz.de/Tod-und-Terr...

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Tod und Terror im Nahen Osten: Schweigen ist nicht neutral

Die Bundesrepublik unterstützt den Staat Israel im Gazakrieg. Dabei missachtet sie internationales Völkerrecht und unterdrückt Kritik.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Such a clever mechanism for such a good cause!

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The AI race will not be won by the cheapest second-best.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The paper had a rough ride. I never quite understood why. It shows how stochastic incentives outperform deterministic pay.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Today my paper with Nora and Lukas Wenner, ‚More effort with less pay’ got accepted - a dozen years after its inception - very emotional moment. I remember so vividly when we were plotting in Berlin.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The portal for the EER special issue in memory of Nora is now closed. We are grateful for the breathtaking number of excellent submissions. The issue will become very special indeed.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Wäre da auch eine, dem Völkerrecht verschriebene, dabei?

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Turns out almost everything I have recently been thinking about is examined in The Good Place.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The EP is available on most platforms.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The songs are based on Kipling’s If, Goethe’s Mignon, and Frost’s The Road Not Taken

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

With some delay also shared here: the EP I commissioned for Heike open.spotify.com/album/6BuV2C...

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Hedeyya

Maii Waleed · EP · 2024 · 4 songs

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Oh, and thanks for your reply! It did make my misery today a good bit less miserable.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Turns out this an industry. Based in Kenya. Where we will be moving to next year … I shall forget about this until then ;)

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Not even sure why I was surprised

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Thank you! It was indeed my sheer happiness that someone finally got in touch that made me overlook the (clear, in retrospect) warning signs … Kudos to them for coming up with something that well crafted - feeding on desperation and with well-designed steps like their egyptair complaints form …

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I had once a case where there were queries during the exam. I went to the room and explained the question and, as I couldn’t restrain myself: also the answer — which didn’t help though … Scarred me for life.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Sadly, yes, it seems. Because I approved the transaction with two-factor authentication and all. They just sent the money then and it’s gone …

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Thank you, Christoph. I’m so stupidly agitated (next to just being stupid) …

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I did. And to Remitly who facilitated this. But all to no avail. I had approved the transfer and that was it.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

In the example I have in mind they don’t differ in their judgments as a function of the signals they have. A just uses a harsher cutoff on his posterior after reading the paper himself. All else is equal.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Thank you, Drew. Your words do alleviate my shame a bit.

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Looks like it’s an industry … 😱😡

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

And had to cancel two credit cards …

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Sorry, if this was a bit long but I said it was elaborate

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Ok, lost EUR 1,500 but worse is the loss of dignity - the realisation of my idiocy

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I guess my immense frustration with egyptair’s unwillingness to help was at the core of my vulnerability. I was just so grateful that they finally were willing to engage

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