Send your best work in Historical & Cultural Economics to meet up at 1492m altitude in the Sarntal Alps 🇮🇹 👇

Precisely nails my feeling after listening to a bunch of the Google NotebookLM "podcasts" generated from working papers this week and last.

1. Trello 2. Coauthors with better project management skills than me 3. Paternity leave to get said coauthors to leave me alone

Might be useful for like 2 of my econ history pals

STstrnr.bsky.socialSep 30, 2024 7:26pm

TIL base R has an `as.roman()` function. Why? #rstats

@cjwich.bsky.social#EconSky needs

An opposition to speed cameras implies one of two beliefs: either you believe all drivers should be able to break traffic safety laws with impunity, or if you oppose speed cameras but favor human traffic enforcement, you think just white people should be able to break traffic safety laws

DHdavidho.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 11:02pm

“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”

Police stop more Black drivers, while speed cameras issue unbiased tickets − new study from Chicago

‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.

"Where'd all these college students come from?" asks secretary of state who lives next to a college.

Newton mayor covering herself in glory:

The liquor store in question is going to sell "gourmet items and high-end alcohol" including kosher wine. Puritan NIMBY neighbors and BC admin still losing their minds... #mapoliwww.newtonbeacon.org/college-adja...

College-adjacent liquor store permit raises concerns - Newton Beacon

The Boston Zoning Board approved a liquor store at 2193-2201 Commonwealth Ave. which is in the block of stores next to the Boston College Green Line station and is directly...

“The problem is that the supply of housing has been artificially restricted—by zoning codes, by deliberately sabotaged fire codes, by malfunctioning environmental laws—to the point where we simply do not build enough housing in the most desirable areas.”

LCliberalcurrents.comSep 30, 2024 10:27am

“It's not just the megarich, the billionaires with yachts for their yachts. It's "don't call me a millionaire" millionaire homeowners, it's doctors, it's car dealers, it's cosmetologists.” www.liberalcurrents.com/its-not-the-...

It's Not the One Percent. It's Your Neighbors.

The rentier economy that has a stranglehold on American quality of life includes a lot more than one percent of the population.