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Treb Allen @treballen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Please spread the word: we're hiring a Globalization Pre-doctoral Fellow to work with me on research, take classes, and participate in the vibrant Dartmouth trade community. Great for those interested in getting a Ph.D. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/177589 @dartmouthecon.bsky.social

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Stephen Redding @reddingecon.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Excited about Friday’s upcoming NBER Conference on the economics of transportation in the 21st century: www.nber.org/conferences/.... Many important issues surrounding automation in transport sector. Tune in on NBER YouTube open to all: youtube.com/@nbervideos?... @nber.org @treballen.bsky.social

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Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century, Fall 2025

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

In the United States. Not another country. Happening right now.

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Stephen Redding @reddingecon.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Excited to see the new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (Volume 6), edited jointly with Dave Donaldson come out: www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han.... Fantastic set of chapters on recent advances and pointing the way to exciting further research @treballen.bsky.social @siepr.bsky.social

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Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics | Volume 6, Issue 1: Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest chapters of Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Using regulatory pressure and threats to silence critics is straight out of the authoritarian playbook

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Erika McEntarfer, fired as BLS head by Trump …got her PhD in 2002 …has 47 publications …which have 1327 citations

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

August 1, 2025
AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations

Statement from the American Economic Association on the
Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner

Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today.
The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day.
Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias.
The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity.
Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions.
We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure.

Lawrence Katz
President, American Economic Association
Katharine Abraham
President-Elect, American Economic Association
Karen Dynan
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics
Kenneth Troske
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

1/Kevin Hassett had long ago discredited himself as a scholar by parroting claims about the economy he knew to be false. Even so, parroting the lie about rigged statistics, is a new low. The academy should ostracize him the same way a fabricator of research should be ostracized.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Columbia is currently on step 1 of failing the Lando test. Ask the law firms about steps 2-4.

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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

"this deal is unlikely to end the attacks. The federal government, and this administration, is simply too powerful and too arbitrary to be credibly bargained with." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

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Opinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves

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CESifo @cesifo.org · 18/07/2025

3 days with an amazing line-up of instructors and poster sessions by junior researchers at the end of each day are over! It's been great hosting 3rd Summer School in International Economics by @jintlecon.bsky.social. Thanks to @rationalitycrc.bsky.social for supporting this event!

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Stephen Redding @reddingecon.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Call for Papers for NBER Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century Virtual Conference, October 24, 2024, organized with Ed Glaeser and Jim Poterba: stephenredding.github.io/Call_for_Pap.... Submission Deadline Weds Sept 3, 11.59 ET. @nber.org @siepr.bsky.social @treballen.bsky.social

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

There's no declaration of war, and no AUMF that covers this. Entering this war is wrong on the merits; we had a perfectly peaceful way to address Iran's nuclear program. It's also unlawful. A democratic republic should not be able to enter a war of choice on one man's say-so.

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Kiel Institut @kiel.institute · 03/06/2025

📢 Join us for the next Kiel-CEPR research seminar: @treballen.bsky.social (Dartmouth) will present his research on the economic structure of US slavery on the eve of the Civil War, which quantifies the welfare gains from emancipation. Register here 👉 ifw-kiel.de/institute/ev... @cepr.org

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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Treb Allen @treballen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The Globalization Cluster at Dartmouth is hiring a pre-doctoral fellow for a two year position starting this summer or fall. International candidates welcome. Take courses. Great placement record. Friendly group! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/167442 @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social

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Stephen Redding @reddingecon.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Call for papers for NBER-Sloan conference on Transport Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: www.princeton.edu/~reddings/Ca... Deadline: June 30, 2025. Organized with Myrto Kalouptsidi. @nber.org @treballen.bsky.social @jintlecon.bsky.social @indorgsociety.bsky.social

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Graphic of Washington Post poll from April 18-22, 2025, showing "Majorities of Americans oppose various Trump proposals"

highlighting two lines in particular:
"Increasing the Federal Government's role in how private universities operate" - 28 percent support, 70 percent oppose
"Reducing federal funding for medical research" - 21 percent support, 77 percent oppose

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

1/n From the archive: is Econ graduate education at risk of training "savants idiots", 1990 edition Fears that econ graduate training has become too technicized has led, once again, to educational debates, so the AEA launched a huuuuuge survey of grad education, under the leadership of Ann Krueger

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This is archetypally impeachable. Trump’s innovation is to just announce it publicly, so it gets framed as a controversial political choice instead of what it is: a crime against the Constitution.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Straight out of the authoritarian playbook and incredibly dangerous

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

As you assess the DEAL we're striking with Korea, remember: We ALREADY have an active free trade agreement with Korea that provides tariff free trade in nearly everything. Expect this new agreement to... Provide for tariff free trade in nearly everything. Just like 6 weeks ago.

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Matthias Doepke @mdoepke.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house. We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We can't let the blatant, explicit weaponization of the executive branch against political opponents become normalized. We can't. Down that road leads death.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Happening right in front of us

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It's important for people to understand that we're on a trajectory that eventually leads to political prisoners (first non-citizens, then citizens) being sent to these camps.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

We’re in a full-blown crisis. The Supreme Court couched its language but was fairly clear that the Administration had to at least engage in a good faith effort to bring this guy back. These people are openly decrying the court and admitting they have taken no steps to try to do so.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/04/2025

NEW: The govt has filed it's daily status report on Abrego Garcia. ICE official Evan Katz declares Abrego Garcia was removed illegally, but that's okay now because the government has declared he's a member of MS13, and they have no further updates. WOW. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The lesson of the "China shock" isn't actually about trade. It's about how hard it is for workers and communities to adapt to rapid economic changes. Now Trump is trying to reshape the global economy overnight, with potentially devastating consequences. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

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The ‘China Shock’ Offers a Lesson. It Isn’t the One Trump Has Learned. (Gift Article)

Economists say the U.S. manufacturing decline in recent decades was not mainly about free trade, but about the pace of change without time to adjust.

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 11/04/2025

Research and innovation in the United States depend crucially on our hard-won ability to attract many of the best and brightest to our universities. The US regime is exploding a bomb underneath this foundation of our future competitiveness and prosperity.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/04/2025

An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

In case you were wondering why we're leveling up. Well, we are fast approaching 1000 students and faculty targeted by the current administration. We have cases of visa revocations, detentions, deportations and many unknowns. Time to double down.

A screenshot of a spreadsheet listing students who have been targeted by the State Department.

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Treb Allen @treballen.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

If my kids throw my keys on the top of the fridge and the they tell me that it's beyond their power to retrieve them, maybe I, as the adult in the room, should tell them they're not allowed to throw anything else up there?

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin. I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social Follow along for updates

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Starting to think that we should sort out a general agreement on trade and tariffs, perhaps housed under some sort of world trade organization. Let's keep the region strong with some kind of of north american free trade agreement. Perhaps a trans pacific partnership could soften China's influence.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Nothing has prepared you to live under Trump 2 as much as growing up in 1980s/90s Latin America. It was exactly like that! The sudden announcements changing everything, the overwhelming uncertainty, the sheer vertigo and whiplash. Plus, the sense that democracy is fragile and could collapse...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

In just four days, Dr. Khan Suri was transferred among five different ICE facilities across three states, despite the fact that ICE records indicate there were beds in Virginia facilities. Dr. Khan Suri was fasting in religious observance of Ramadan, but multiple ICE facilities refused him food or water to break his fast.

For almost two weeks, he was housed in a room without a bed and with a television blaring 21 hours a day. Dr. Khan Suri was issued used underwear, and a bright red uniform that is usually reserved for detained individuals who have been classified as ‘high security’ based on their criminal history or alleged affiliation with criminal organizations. He is not permitted to work or spend more than two hours per week outside of his dorm.

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Marten Mickos @martenmickos.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Brilliant economic analysis by Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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John McLaren @johnmclaren.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I'm seeing a huge spike in interest in tariffs from people who normally don't work in the economics of international trade. Here are a few useful things to know about them. (1/14)

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 04/04/2025

So the reason Norfolk Island copped a dramatically higher tariff than the rest of Australia is two shipments of Timbaland boots from the Bahamas and some aquarium supplies from the UK that had their point of origin mislabeled or misrecorded. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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