Sunday, February 22, 2026

A.I. in managemant consulting

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 Management consulting seems like a natural use-case for large language models. The Financial Times has the story:  Accenture combats AI ref...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Fast and slow dissemination of new ideas in medicine and economics (one timeline:)

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There are many differences between medicine and economics, but one of the most striking is the speed of publication.  I publish papers in bo...
Friday, February 20, 2026

French medical residents struggle without a way for couples to match together

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 Esther Duflo sent me a link to the story below in Le Monde, describing the difficulty facing married doctors in France who wish to match to...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

How to regulate legal marijuana?

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 The New York Times editorial board thinks about the current environment for (now legal) marijuana, and calls for more careful regulation, a...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Magic mushrooms have a role in hospice care

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 Pain experienced while dying may be partly spiritual.  National Geographic has the story:  These drugs could be a game changer for end-of-l...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Jobs for human "meatspace" workers, assigned by A.I.s

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 Robots aren't yet able to replace people: e.g. self-driving taxis (such as Waymo) aren't equipped to close a door left open (or inc...
Monday, February 16, 2026

Joe Halpern (1953-2026)

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 Joseph Halpern was an early explorer of the interface between computer science and game theory.   Here's his funeral home obit:  Josep...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Eric Schmidt on the future of warfare

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 Warfare--the technology by which wars are fought--is changing. Ukraine’s no man’s land is the future of war In drone vs drone combat, valua...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

4th Computational and Experimental Economics Summer School, UPF Barcelona, May31-June 6

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Rosemarie Nagel writes from Barcelona: Dear colleagues and graduate students,  We invite graduate students, postdocs, and young faculty to...
Friday, February 13, 2026

Trump Administration Removes Pride Flag From Stonewall National Monument (but the Stonewall Inn is still in private hands)

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 When a national monument is designated around a private business in a liberal state, the ability of the President to alter its message is  ...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Moral Economics: Book cover and jackets

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  Getting a book out involves some tedium (e.g. trying to proofread the index) as well as many small excitements: here's the full book c...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Blurb I recently wrote (for a How-to on a familiar but surprising subject)

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Like everything else in life, blurbs have editors, so not everything you write gets published.    Some of the books I've read and blurbe...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Before I forget, coffee lowers risk of dementia

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 Here's the good news, published yesterday in JAMA: Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function Yu Zhang, MBBS1,2,3; Yu...
Monday, February 9, 2026

Deadline tomorrow morning for Econometric Society conference on Economics and AI+ML

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  Today's email announces a 9am Eastern time deadline tomorrow (that's 6am in California). And it looks like a fine conference. ...