This week in In Development Magazine, we decided to make economists angry by pointing out that they should do more qualitative work.
GovAI is looking for entrepreneurs in residence. The “AI Bellingcat” idea seems particularly useful.
BREAD and IGC have a free PhD-level course in political economy. I’m v tempted to show up to the crime session.
Yale is hiring an econ comms person, and you get to work with the awesome Jeff Mosenkis.
Via Tim Hirschel-Burns, this is a lovely essay about love in a country where a quarter of the population is a carrier of a genetic disease.
Also: recessive genes often do affect phenotype a bit.
Pocketbook voting is alive and well in southern Africa.
When people are looking for a job, they edit their LinkedIn profiles to emphasize AI and de-emphasize DEI.
Matt Clancy analyzes why economists and technologists disagree on the growth boost from AI in Asterisk Magazine.
Free idea: instead of Inkhaven, where everyone has to produce an essay a day, a progress-y writing workshop where you spend two weeks writing one really good essay.2
Specifically, $103,265.
I’d organize it myself, but I have a magazine to run.
huge proponent of the essay on sickle cell disease!! krithika varagur is one of my fav writers/journalists