Cool paper: Contrary to the predictions of a neoclassical model, Job Leavers are not concentrated below the new minimum wage following a minimum wage increase. For Job Stayers, the spike and spillover effects ... are simply shifted right to the new minimum wage. .. sites.google.com/view/pierre-...

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My interview with CBS on what Trump will do about the Houthis: Thomas Juneau, associate fellow at the Chatham House think tank's Middle East and North Africa Program, told CBS News that this creates "a difficult dilemma for President Trump." cc @chmenap.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

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Exciting couple days here in Reykjavik talking climate stabilization globalstabilization.org In an entirely unrelated news, I'm changing my name to Gærnóð and taking a few years off to explore geothermal power up close. Beautiful country.

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A basic problem with punditry in this era is that much of it assumes our barrier to greater prosperity and peace is the technological frontier. That is false. Failures in politics, government policy, and economic policy are holding us back, keeping us far short of the technological frontier.

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Early in the semester, I try to model how to read with some passages from assigned readings and then I explicitly talk about what to do if you don't know what a word means (keeping a running list, context clues, real dictionary)

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