If you’re reading story after story about how local GOP elected officials could refuse to certify the election or otherwise undermine results & perpetuate chaos and you’re freaking the fuck out, a few thoughts & action items for you... www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
Trump’s refusal to accept the 2020 election results serves as a preview to expected challenges in November
A fun observation about auctions that came up when chatting with @doronravid.bsky.social. 📈📉 Recall that in the Myerson '81 setting, a second-price auction (2PA) with reserve price is one of many optimal auctions in the symmetric regular case. Fact: with 2 bidders, it's true without regularity.
Hello world, I’m writing to introduce the Chicago Booth Economics PhD program's Job Market Candidates! Eric Budish and I are the faculty co-directors of the program, so please e-mail us with any questions Here are our outstanding and inspiring students (in alphabetical order):
🚨Job alert 🚨 (PDRI-DevLab) @UPenn invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship (2024-2025). The postdoc would be working with me on joint research projects (50% of their time). There's no teaching. To apply see apply.interfolio.com/136018 Please consider applying, or sharing widely.
The election you should be focusing on takes place on Tuesday. You can probably vote for the school board, the library board, maybe sheriff, local officials and offices that shape your community. Do you have a plan to vote?
Finally published my take on the current tensions in the place you’re thinking about as you read this, for McSweeney’s today: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sta...
Dear Students, We are saddened by the tremendous loss of life in many of the places you’ve read about—you know the ones, we don’t need to name them...