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News & Musings

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Nous avons découvert en Bulgarie un village avec une concentration anormale de français. Sur place ? Des tendances conspi, quelques gilets jaunes fans de Hitler, de probables arnaques, des menaces de mort, le tout surveillé par une communauté YouTube chauffée à blanc. 1/13

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That I have been able to have a decent professional career without understanding double entry bookkeeping is truly amazing. What an indictment of our profession...😀 We are lucky that there are some courageous people like you to denounce this incredible fraud.

.@Stanford has been consumed since 10/7. Rival protest encampments grew large enough to be seen in satellite images of the school. Students are told they support genocide for wearing kippahs, and accused of terrorism for wearing keffiyehs. My latest:

Among other misrepresentations (to use a euphemism), @TheEconomist's anonymous author of seems to have a pretty foggy idea of what structural—vs. non-structural—modeling entails, or what ”Mr Heckman’s favoured approaches” are. Otherwise, as cute as can be.

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Why “Freakonomics” failed to transform economics

The approach was fun, but has fallen out of favour

www.economist.com

Which mechanisms are simple to play? When is it easy for participants to see that a mechanism is incentive-compatible?

I've written a new introduction to the literature on simple mechanisms.

https://x.com/ShengwuLi/status/1772273896307282009?s=20

Pour certains il était le plus grand pianiste de notre époque. Maurizio Pollini s'est éteint le 23 mars. Le pianiste François-Frédéric Guy, le surintendant de la Scala de Milan Dominique Meyer et le journaliste musical Alain Lompech lui rendent hommage.

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