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. ...

Danny Kahneman remembered by Gerd Gigerenzer

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 Gerd Gigerenzer writes about Danny Kahneman and his work,  through the lens of Gigerenzer's own long and distinguished career criticiz...
Sunday, February 8, 2026

Interview in China (accompanying new edition of Who Gets What and Why)

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 Southern People Weekly just published an interview about the new edition of the Chinese translation of my 2015 book Who Gets What and Why ....
Saturday, February 7, 2026

Are some applications of AI repugnant?

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Here's a new HBS working paper on repugnance of A.I.   Performance or Principle: Resistance to Artificial Intelligence in the U.S. Labor...
Friday, February 6, 2026

Moral Economics: back-cover blurbs

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 I now know what blurbs will likely be on the back cover of Moral Economics when it comes out in May. They are by Peter Singer , Abhijit Ba...
Thursday, February 5, 2026

Ken Rogoff's intellectual autobiography

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 My Harvard colleague Ken Rogoff , who is almost certainly undominated in the joint space of competitive chess and academic economics, refle...
Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Kidney exchange comes to Hungary

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Péter Biró   writes with good news about kidney exchange in Hungary.   Here's the announcement from the  University of Pécs, of the firs...