Carlo Prato

But seriously, even setting Edo aside, it’s a really strong Econ Department: economia.unipd.it/en/research/...

The connection dates back to 2001

Two-year Postdoctoral Research Position in Economics | INOMICS The Department of Economics and Management at the University of Padua invites expressions of interest from outstanding young scholars for a two-year, research-oriented postdoctoral position in Economi...

Very attractive postdoc opportunity at the University of Padua. While the position is advertised as Econ, the group has strong interests in political economy and would consider seriously quant polisci students.

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JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters!

Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica...

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Last day to submit: Democratic Resilience and the Politics of Belonging

Columbia, June 4-5, 2026

Co-Organizers: @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi), @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @carloprato.bsky.social (Columbia)

Submit: lnkd.in/eiPgt_w5

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Working on a paper on this with @anthlittle.bsky.social and @carloprato.bsky.social. Would welcome suggestions for papers that explore similar point.

📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣

This does NOT happen everyday.

THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n

So six academics decided to read the same book together and did not realize how long the book was. Middlemarch took us almost a year and to discuss it we used slides.

Anyway, my one sentence summary of the discussion is that it's a book about self-deception.

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨

Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social

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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Where willpower fails, a rolling pin-brandishing grandmother may still succeed

Call for Submissions: Democratic Resilience and the Politics of Belonging

Columbia, June 4-5, 2026

Co-Organizers: @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi), @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @ginvernizzi.bsky.social (Bocconi)

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A prophecy from “The Makers of American Wine,” 2012.

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EG: I mobilize to keep factory open, but globalization increases the cost of govt takeover and thus the level of mobilization above which govt intervenes. Anticipating this, I believe others will not show up and so I am less likely to show up myself. People here are strategic in the sense of Andy

I agree with Andy that the distinction between naive and strategic is a useful way to get at this. The starting point is a theory of political participation (with expressive and instrumental motivations) and a stance on what globalization does. 1/2

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.

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@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy

These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas

www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...

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Thank you Filipe :-)

@edogrillo.bsky.social have been exchanging screenshots on a weekly basis

April 25, 1945 marks the end of the Nazi occupation of Italy. We honor those who chose to resist and those who died fighting.

The Benedicta massacre occurred between April 6 and 11, 1944, a few miles from my hometown. It’s the largest mass killing of the Italian Resistance, taking over 150 lives.

As a group, I’d say we did pretty well

From a proud veteran of EITM 2011: do apply to this!

MoPED Workshop Berlin Meeting on the Political Economy of Development (MoPED) -- The MoPED workshop offers an opportunity for scholars who focus on the political economy of development, broadly defined, to build...

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We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June.

This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers.

Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️

www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

EPSA Pre-Conference on Culture We invite submissions for a pre-EPSA workshop on the topic of “Culture”. The event will take place on June 25th, 2025 at IE University Madrid. The study of culture has a long-standing tradition in pol...

Please spread the word:

Reminder that, together with @emmylindstam.bsky.social and Joan Ricart-Huguet, we are organising a pre-EPSA workshop on Culture on June 25th at IE University.

The deadline to submit papers is next week (Feb 15th).

More details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Let’s just hope we were right about this one…

Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce "Pasta alla Cacio e pepe" is a traditional Italian dish made with pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper. Despite its simple ingredient list, achieving the perfect texture and creaminess of the sauce can ...

Yes. arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536