Alex Coad

Reminder: 📆 3-page extended abstract deadline: Sunday 1st Nov 2026❗ 📢📢SBEJ 5th online conference for Early Career Researchers

Indeed, insurance companies have an important role as regulators. In the case of asbestos, insurance companies took action against asbestos many decades before government regulators: doi.org/10.1080/1366...

9-reporter story at Reuters saying Tesla successfully pressured automotive safety regulators and evaluators in the Netherlands to approve their FSD (Supervised) systems - partially automated driving systems - for use in customers' cars in EU. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

📢📢SBEJ 5th online conference for Early Career Researchers! Fri 11th December 2026, 2-4pm (Berlin (DE) time) Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 1st November Submit or register here: bit.ly/SBEJ-ECR @sbe-journal.bsky.social Details also here: lnkd.in/p/eF5ezeq4 #EconSky

Fascinated by this local gym's flyer. She has the bar running under her shoulder strap! (Also, her thumbs are in the wrong position for a squat) #AIslop

👇Reminder: submit your 3-page abstract by Sun 23rd August!

but basically, Tesla had more Clean Air Act violations in May than any other auto assembly plant in the country has had in five years I've been reporting on this since 2019 www.thedrive.com/tech/28338/d... www.thedrive.com/tech/28339/t...

Recently released footage shows the moment an earthquake struck Kumamoto General Hospital in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, during surgery on July 28, as doctors immediately protect the patient and nurses scramble to secure an evacuation route.

📢📢"Positioning firms along the capabilities ladder" New paper in ICC [Open Access] with Nanditha Mathew and Emanuele Pugliese Paper: doi.org/10.1093/icc/... Youtube video [16m07]: youtu.be/Ls0uZb9fVN0 #EconSky

Anyone who still believes that Tesla is on the "cusp", or even a year away, from scaling a driverless ride-hailing service, take a look at this from Tampa, FL yesterday. $TSLA $TSLAQ

It’ll be ok this time right? www.ft.com/content/de29...

xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

U.S. airlines are starting to onboard more Starlink wifi capability. Here's a peek at their privacy Terms of Service. They apparently collect data from files and also use it for AI. starlink.com/legal/docume...

What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread:

Watch as a shadow causes Tesla self-driving v14.3.4 to swerve onto the wrong side of the road, forcing the driver to disengage! Elon Musk’s defective software should be banned from public roads.

I call Elon Musk a Nazi because he's an avowed white supremacist who undermines democracies, incites pogroms, targets minorities, intentionally caused the death of >750,000 people (so far) while laughing about it ("feeding USAID into the wood chipper"), and did a Sieg Heil at Trump's inauguration.

Surprising to see Prof. Susan Athey in the list...

We're just about through with legal review for Elon Take The Wheel, which means the book that explains how Elon Musk's wealth is built on a stack of corpses (probably) won't get me sued into homelessness! Please pre-order your copy today, and help build momentum! benbellabooks.com/shop/elon-ta...

Weird: as a journal editor, I received a submission that cites a fake (but plausible-sounding) paper that I supposedly wrote in 2018! #AIslop #AIhallucination #EconSky

SpaceX S1 is out. I have to get my kid to soccer, will post stuff about this later or tomorrow. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

This is truly great work by @fredlambert.bsky.social and I highly recommend it. I hope Chancellor McCormick is reading along because it completely vindicates her take on Musk's machinations. Indeed, her take was far too tepid. electrek.co/2026/05/06/m...

When I started my PhD on firm growth rates in 2004, I did not think the measurement of growth rates would become so politically charged. @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social : let's hope the White House does not impose a new definition of High-Growth Firms (HGFs)!

Tesla Q1 earnings call is now live, Elon has begun his comments, follow along here www.youtube.com/live/qO7T5zg...

Conjecture: Whatever your definition of “good”, a good bottle of whisky is cheaper than two good bottles of wine

“It’s digital sovereignty — and it’s quietly becoming the civilian version of rearmament.” More on the shift away from US tech. (HT @kentindell.bsky.social) www.marketwatch.com/story/europe...

New: A Houston woman is suing Tesla in Harris County, alleging that her Cybertruck, while using Tesla's "Full Self-Driving mode" tried to drive the car off of a bridge. Here is the dashcam footage provided by her lawyers: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

📢 Reminder!! RP ECR11 online conference Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 22nd March #EconSky

Learning Japanese hurts my eyes: in my ~A4 textbook, you need to distinguish markings with a size of about a hundredth of a centimeter...

... and the SI is now published in Issue 1, Feb 2026: link.springer.com/journal/1096...

"Harvard Business Review" is a prestigious FT50 scientific journal, important for hiring, promotions, research funding, etc. So why are they publishing this crap? #EconSky #SpaceX Rigby, D.K., Sutherland, J., Noble, A. (2018). Agile at scale. Harvard Business Review, 96(3), 88-96.

Id like to run a special issue of a social science journal on "Calling Bullshit" where people can just go on a full on rant (anonymously if they like) and rip well established ideas to shreds. Zero requirements to be balanced or polite or have any respect for pompous senior professors.

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS #druid26 Copenhagen, Denmark June 8-10, 2026 Submission deadline: March 1 Web site: www.druid.dk

I'm a few minutes behind the live call, but here's my Q4 Tesla earnings call "live thread"! We start out with Elon announcing that Tesla's mission has changed to "Amazing Abundance," which represents a pivot from the "Sustainable Abundance" tagline he announced last year.

📣 Come join a top-5 strategy department in Europe and work with me on an exciting topic at the intersection of causal AI and strategy 🤖📈 I'm recruiting a PhD student as part of my Sapere Aude Research Leader Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. (1/3)

It’s not that America elected a despot. Lots of countries have done that. It’s that they RE-elected a despot. He showed them who he was during his first term. He showed them more of who he was during his time out of office. But they STILL voted him back in.

The one thing that is growing extremely fast is the wealth of the top billionaires: The top 0.00001% used to own the equivalent of 3% of national income in wealth in 2010 Now they own the equivalent of 12% of national income!