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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

A deep paper -- that popped into my head as I was perusing S. Durlauf's recent essay on meritocracy. The paper raises a broader question: how to be meritocratic when there is uncertainty about the relative weights of luck and effort in individuals' production function? www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...

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Hasan Tekgüç @tekguchasan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Very intuitive explanation for the puzzle we observe in Istanbul as well. I bet the extremes are even worser in Turkey b/c of very lax labor regulations in a static world. But labot mobility is also way higher in Turkey so I am not sure in the long run

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 06/06/2025

half the super hyped up "tech" crap of late isn't even really tech at all. food delivery, taxis, Theranos, etc. crypto is just unregulated finance

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Hasan Tekgüç @tekguchasan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Alper hoca @yagcialper.bsky.social sömürgecilik ve kalkınma ilişkisi üstune cok ilginç bir yazı yazmış. Benim gibi ekonomik deterministlere (sömurgecilik sonuçtur diyenler) karşı argumanlarını ve delillerini çok net ifade etmiş. Kolay da okunuyor: alperyagci.com/bati-dunyayi...

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Batı, dünyayı sömürdüğü için mi kalkındı yoksa kalkındığı için mi sömürebildi?

Alper H. Yağcı, 2 Ocak 2025 Evet, sorumuz büyük ve zor; yazı uzun. Hazırlık için önce terimlerimizi tanımlayalım. “Kalkınmadan” kastımız teknolojik ve ekonomik. Devrinin en gelişm…

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Cem Oyvat @cemoyvat.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Hasan Tekgüç ve Değer Eryar'ın, vergilerin ve sosyal harcamaların gelir eşitsizliği üzerindeki etkisini inceledikleri yeni makaleleri yayımlanmış. 1/

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Hasan Tekgüç @tekguchasan.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Our new paper (with Değer Eryar of IEU) is published in Review of Development Economics. We investigate the inequality and poverty impact of taxes, transfers and social spending for Turkey between 2003-2019. The paper is open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Redistribution Trends in Turkey: Unintended Consequences vs. Deliberate Policies

We investigate the impact of taxes, transfers, and social spending on inequality in Turkey during the first two decades of the 21st century. We employ Household Budget Surveys from 2003, 2007, 2011, ...

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Rajiv Sethi @rajivsethi.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Did not know that Dierdre McCloskey was on Claudia Goldin's dissertation committee; her comments here are interesting, and hopefully will get more people to read Nancy Folbre and Julie Nelson:

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