Applications are now open for the 2026 Price Theory Summer Camp!
Designed for PhD students outside UChicago, the program focuses on applying core economic tools to real problems.
🗓️ June 14–18
📝 Apply by March 1
🔗 https://ow.ly/k6ON50Y8mQt
Alysa Liu celebrating figure skating gold
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It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️
25 days to go!
We are officially 25 days away from the SACE 2026 Conference. The countdown is on and the excitement is building.
Link for tickets in bio! #Econsky
Meet the first 5 of our 10 fantastic SACE 2026 Research Scholars! 🎓
Honored to spotlight emerging researchers shaping the future of economics and related fields. More details on our instagram!
Tickets link in bio.
#SACE2026 #SadieCollective #Econsky
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
“Children were in the crowd screaming.”
❤️
“all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones of those who did not make it…” - @clintsmithiii.bsky.social
"Cancellations nearly matched factory announcements last year: Firms unveiled a total of $24.1 billion in new cleantech manufacturing projects, but scrapped $22.7 billion worth. It’s a dramatic reversal." www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
WHO removing Us Flag
Sometimes the most radical thing you can do is educate normal people on complex subjects in ways that are engaging and digestible.
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
My @brookings.edu colleague Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti has updated the External Wealth of Nations database, which has data from 212 countries from 1970-2024. www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
Economists!
I am looking for someone to coauthor an article on the massive decline in costs of genome sequencing.
The science is all fine, but I'm interested in the economics of it all: the innovation, funding, prizes, patents, etc.
Does anyone come to mind? Thanks!
Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family.
What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.
On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/
“Do not get lost in a sea of despair.”
- John Lewis #RIP
Thank you!
We are honored to announce Dr. Belinda Archibong as the Keynote Speaker for #SACE2026.
📍: Urban Institute | Washington D.C.
⏰: February 26-27th, 2026
Tickets for Rooted in Resilience: Shaping Policy and Building Hopeful Futures are now live. Link in bio.
#Econsky
My personal highlights from the ASSA meetings: open.substack.com/pub/dismalsc...
Had missed this milestone: EU launched carbon border tax at the start of this year
www.ft.com/content/9e4a...
In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
Heading to Philadelphia for the #ASSA2026. Presenting research you think our readers would be interested in? Working on something you think I should know about? Reach out here or by any of the ways linked in my bio: www.nytimes.com/by/ben-casse... #EconSky
Going into 2026 like…
Our December Community Spotlight: Issamar Kirby!
Issamar is a Corporate Risk Analyst at Wells Fargo and an MBA candidate at Morgan State University. Her work blends analytical thinking, creative leadership, and a commitment to growth as she navigates her career with resilience and purpose! #Econsky
Incredible feats; can’t wait to read the book.
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 65k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
