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Here it is, the article youâve all been waiting for: open.substack.com/pub/jackbmeyerâŠ
Iâve been holding off in pursuit of other topics, but I think itâs about time I write a âwhy institutionsâ article
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If someone ever tells you that you look cool in a leather jacket, you are 100% getting honeypotted
BREAKING: Jensen Huang admits affair as Nvidia launches independent investigation into CEO axios.com/2026/11/08/nviâŠ
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Stories like this do important work furthering the cause of hot economist representation
âWe met on OkCupid,â Merritt Tierce writes. âHe was a handsome, accomplished economics professor, and I was in New York for the shoot of an episode of the final season of âOrange Is the New Black,â â Merritt Tierce writes. Tierce is a novelist, a memoirist, and was a writer for economist was from that Ă©lite class of European men for whom itâs nothing to read two novels a week, for pleasure and erudition, in addition to going about high-level professional work, raising children, and practicing some intense sport. The two began an affair, which lasted months, until he told her, âYou and I are not going to fall in love and thatâs what you and I are looking for.â Tierce details the time they spent together, the concessions she made to remain in his life, and the ever-complicated calculus of modern dating: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/aiLHxj
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One day we may eventually figure out the appropriate role for the humble economist in policymaking, perhaps somewhere on the spectrum between plumber and theocrat
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why is it always regression to the mean? canât you regress to the kind instead?
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Economic populism is when thereâs fewer economists. And itâs more populist the fewer economists there are. And if thereâs no economists, we call that the [redacted] school of economic thought
Economic populism also means dethroning economics. Itâs not the job of economists to dictate how our economies should be run but to find solutions to implement democratically determined goals.
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đ«đ· FLASH - LFI a dĂ©voilĂ© le programme de Jean-Luc MĂ©lenchon pour la prĂ©sidentielle de 2027. Parmi les propositions :
- Autoriser jusquâĂ 3 jours dâarrĂȘt maladie autodĂ©clarĂ©, sans consulter de mĂ©decin.
- Accorder 7 jours de congĂ© aprĂšs le dĂ©cĂšs dâun ami.
- Porter le SMIC Ă it une hausse de 220âŹ.
- Ramener lâĂąge de dĂ©part Ă la retraite de 64 Ă 60 ans, avec une retraite Ă taux plein aprĂšs 40 annĂ©es de cotisation.
- Réduire progressivement la durée du travail à 32 heures par semaine.
- Instaurer un service écologique obligatoire de 9 mois pour les moins de 25 ans, rémunéré au SMIC.
- Faire rembourser les soins à 100% par la Sécurité sociale.
- Prendre en charge les séances de psychothérapie des moins de 26 ans.
- Fixer un plafond de 12 millions dâeuros pour les hĂ©ritages.
- Augmenter les APL de 10% pour aider Ă payer les loyers.
- Bloquer les prix de certains produits essentiels afin de limiter les hausses excessives.
- Revaloriser les salaires des fonctionnaires.
- Garantir un revenu minimum aux jeunes grĂące Ă une allocation.
- Proposer aux Ă©tudiants des repas Ă 1âŹ.
- Limiter Ă 1 pour 20 lâĂ©cart entre les rĂ©munĂ©rations au sein dâune mĂȘme entreprise.
- Soumettre les aides publiques aux entreprises Ă des engagements sociaux et Ă©cologiques.
- RĂ©tablir lâISF afin dâaccroĂźtre lâimposition des grandes fortunes.
- Mettre en place la taxe Zucman pour taxer davantage les milliardaires.
- RĂ©partir lâimpĂŽt sur le revenu en 14 tranches pour augmenter la contribution des plus riches.
- Engager une sortie progressive du nucléaire.
- Atteindre une production dâĂ©lectricitĂ© issue Ă 100% des Ă©nergies renouvelables dâici 2060.
- Interdire les vols entre 23h et 6h.
- Suspendre les zones à faibles émissions (ZFE), qui restreignent la circulation des véhicules les plus polluants dans certaines villes.
- Passer de la Ve Ă la VIe RĂ©publique en donnant davantage de pouvoir aux citoyens.
- Supprimer le 49.3, qui permet au gouvernement de faire adopter un texte sans vote.
- Intensifier la lutte contre les discriminations, notamment au sein de la police.
- ReconnaĂźtre comme crime dâĂtat le massacre des AlgĂ©riens du 17 octobre 1961.
- RenĂ©gocier les traitĂ©s europĂ©ens et refuser lâapplication de certaines rĂšgles europĂ©ennes jugĂ©es incompatibles avec le programme.
- Quitter progressivement le commandement militaire intĂ©grĂ© de lâOTAN.
- Soutenir la crĂ©ation dâun Ătat palestinien aux cĂŽtĂ©s dâIsraĂ«l.
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I like how the English politely ask âAre you from around here?â We both already know the answer to that question, but I do appreciate the courtesy of not acknowledging my Americanness
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doing a 2nd masters degree to delay unemployment
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That would be great. I recommend checking out Rochester Tailored Clothing. As their name suggests, they are based in Rochester, New York. This area used to be a big clothing manufacturing hub in the United States, but like many such hubs, manufacturing jobs have dwindled.
In her autobiographyhist Emma Goldman recalled working in one of Rochesterâs clothing factories, where she made overcoats. During the years Goldman lived and worked in the city, Hickey Freeman began manufacturing suits there (1899). They were a stalwart of US suit manufacturing up until fairly recently (2023). Management mishandled workers' healthcare and pay, and eventually moved all production to Mexico. Consequently, about 200 people were not only facing unemployment but were also owed money they were unlikely to collect.
Fortunately, this factory was narrowly saved. It is now operating under new management and under the banner of Rochester Tailored Clothing. This is a unionized workforce (Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union). Some people here have been with the company for over fifty years, many of them first-generation immigrants.
The photos below are from a profile The Nation did on them not too long ago.
However, if you're mostly looking to buy a suit, I recommend a few places: J. Press, O'Connell's, American Trench, Paul Stuart, and Martin Greenfield (the last also being a factory). Not all of the suits at J. Press are made in the US, so check the labels. There are also bespoke tailors in this country, such as Chris Despos, Leonard Logsdail, and Ercole, although the first is based in Chicago and the others in NYC.
In her autobiographyhist Emma Goldman recalled working in one of Rochesterâs clothing factories, where she made overcoats. During the years Goldman lived and worked in the city, Hickey Freeman began manufacturing suits there (1899). They were a stalwart of US suit manufacturing up until fairly recently (2023). Management mishandled workers' healthcare and pay, and eventually moved all production to Mexico. Consequently, about 200 people were not only facing unemployment but were also owed money they were unlikely to collect.
Fortunately, this factory was narrowly saved. It is now operating under new management and under the banner of Rochester Tailored Clothing. This is a unionized workforce (Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union). Some people here have been with the company for over fifty years, many of them first-generation immigrants.
The photos below are from a profile The Nation did on them not too long ago.
However, if you're mostly looking to buy a suit, I recommend a few places: J. Press, O'Connell's, American Trench, Paul Stuart, and Martin Greenfield (the last also being a factory). Not all of the suits at J. Press are made in the US, so check the labels. There are also bespoke tailors in this country, such as Chris Despos, Leonard Logsdail, and Ercole, although the first is based in Chicago and the others in NYC.
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Buy old ties. Call them âvintageâ if it makes you feel better. Thereâs a reason theyâre still around.
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Is it normal for UK job applications to ask about where you went to secondary school?
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And is it a good or bad thing that my American public (state) school also shares a name with a British public (private) school?
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Although Iâve recently seen some excellent work formalizing and quantifying culture and cultural change, legal institutions still represent a more practical area of historical inquiry by virtue of being readily observable
As much as I lean towards an institutional explanation for the Industrial Revolution, the more I work on the economics of innovation and technological diffusion, the more sympathetic I become towards Mokyrâs cultural argument
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Iâm hoping that the model Iâm currently working on can expand on some of the underlying logic of institutional formalization in intellectual property, but as with any latent process the evidence ends up more suggestive than causal
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As much as I lean towards an institutional explanation for the Industrial Revolution, the more I work on the economics of innovation and technological diffusion, the more sympathetic I become towards Mokyrâs cultural argument
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Me after getting dunked by economists for posting an anonymous AI report full of error:
Are economists declining in status? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevoluâŠ
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The economic history class of 2026/27 is now on Our Long Walk. It is my annual attempt to list every job market candidate in economic history: 86 this year, each with their job market paper.
New this year: what happened to the three classes before them. (Link at 7/10.)
New this year: what happened to the three classes before them. (Link at 7/10.)
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