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#EconSky Zombie firms and the growth of the living: the labor market channel https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bdi:opques:qef_1058_26&r=&r=lma "By hoarding workers in unproductive employment relationships, zombie firms reduce the effective local labor supply available to healthy competitors, 1/3

thereby limiting productive firms’ ability to expand employment when faced with favorable demand conditions … Effects are strongest for white-collar workers and for micro and small firms, consistent with tighter constraints on scarce skills and greater reliance on local hiring … suggesting 2/3

#EconSky If a chatbot prompt like ‘find Australian medicine statistics’ results in a website breach, the responsibility does not lie with a piece of code 1/4

slow the “hyperscaling” rush to produce more and increasingly powerful agentic software. … And none of this will preclude the many benign uses of “#AI” software, including massively improved internet search, document summarisation and translation, and software coding. These uses come with the 3/4

#EconSky If a chatbot prompt like ‘find Australian medicine statistics’ results in a website breach, the responsibility does not lie with a piece of code 1/4

#EconSky Words Change Behavior More Than We Think https://www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/shaping-behavior-with-language Challenging the standard consequentialist assumption that decision-making is driven solely by outcomes and incentives, Capraro argues that #behavioralEconomics must integrate 1/3

linguistic framing directly into formal models of choice. Powered by #AI's capacity to quantify semantic nuance, he contends that “large language models can facilitate a paradigm shift within behavioural economics from outcome-based utility functions to a more general class of functions that 2/3

#EconSky Beveridgean Phillips Curve https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.12475 Replacing standard monopolistic pricing with directed-search pricing under price-adjustment costs, the framework links the #inflation gap directly to the #unemployment gap, yielding a model where prices respond to 1/2

#EconSky Efficient social learning is the human advantage over #AI https://forklightning.substack.com/p/efficient-social-learning-is-the In an economy where raw computational cognition is rapidly commodified, “humans’ comparative advantage is our learning efficiency”, specifically our 1/2

#EconSky #Nudge or #tax? At last, some data https://timharford.com/2026/09/nudge-or-tax-at-last-some-data/ "the two approaches complement each other. Take vaccination: a government keen to maximise the uptake of a vaccine would do well to reduce the price (zero is a particularly attractive 1/4

is no substitute for using taxes to get price signals right. List et al write: “In four of five markets, price instruments deliver substantially larger total surplus than nudges.” All too often, politicians are turning their back on the most beneficial policies because they lack the political 3/4

#EconSky #Nudge or #tax? At last, some data https://timharford.com/2026/09/nudge-or-tax-at-last-some-data/ "the two approaches complement each other. Take vaccination: a government keen to maximise the uptake of a vaccine would do well to reduce the price (zero is a particularly attractive 1/4

#EconSky What German reunification reveals about how we really find work, and the one connection that makes the difference. https://www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/25077.pdf Only 3 to 4% of displaced East German workers moved west within five years of losing their jobs, despite 1/4

response to regional job losses has been relocation subsidies and better job listings. Those are useful, but they don’t address the deeper problem: people don’t know whether they’ll actually succeed in a new place. Connecting displaced workers with people who have made similar transitions 3/4

#EconSky What German reunification reveals about how we really find work, and the one connection that makes the difference. https://www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/25077.pdf Only 3 to 4% of displaced East German workers moved west within five years of losing their jobs, despite 1/4

#EconSky "AI companies use tokens to track usage and bill customers. Now economists are using them to track the spread of AI through the economy." https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/07/28/g-s1-135475/ai-tokens-could-become-the-kilowatt-hour-of-the-ai-age Much like electricity 1/2

“college campuses need to be liberated from their administrators” because “higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules.” https://globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-administration-barry-lam ​By allowing bureaucratic mandates and managerial overreach to supersede academic 1/2

#EconSky Market #competition accomplishes what decades of regulation haven't https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/04/mark-cuban-competition-prescription-drug-coverage/ Not covering expensive but seldom-utilized treatments is an easy way for health insurance providers to cut costs. ... 1/2

The cheapest migration is the one nobody notices. Google cuts off the #GeminiCLI for consumer tiers on June 18. My tools all call gemini directly. So I kept the name and swapped the backend. A shim and #ai agent #skill that routes gemini through Google's Antigravity CLI. No config 1/2

#EconSky Is Economics Finally Becoming Trustworthy? https://www.econlib.org/econlog/economics-finally-trustworthy/ "Economics, along with political science, looks relatively good by this measure, with about half of articles sharing data or code, compared to less than one in ten articles in the 1/3

field of Education. #Economics likewise had relatively good “#reproducibility”, with most articles clearing this low bar … As a new quick rule of thumb inspired by the Nature papers, you could do worse than “cut estimated effect sizes in half”. If a published paper says that a college degree 2/3

#EconSky Remote Work Leaves Younger Workers Sidelined https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/06/remote-work-leaves-younger-workers-sidelined/ "…youth #unemployment has risen dramatically since the pandemic—as has the prevalence of remote work … remote work can explain 64% of the 1/3

recent increase in unemployment among young college graduates." This happens because "when people work next to their colleagues, they receive more feedback on their output and more mentorship," making companies "reluctant to hire less-experienced workers in distributed work arrangements. …the 2/3

#EconSky #PersonalizedPricing Isn’t All Bad for Consumers https://www.cato.org/blog/personalized-pricing-isnt-all-bad-consumers "Both individualized and dynamic pricing have existed in our daily lives for years. But the combination of the two using modern technology has led to fears… that 1/3

“corporations are collecting our personal data to extract every cent they can to pad their pockets.” … the best protection for consumers is a competitive market. In #competitiveMarkets with no supply constraints, individualized dynamic pricing has proven to largely benefit consumers. Any time 2/3

#EconSky How Your #Brain Decides What Matters https://nautil.us/how-your-brain-decides-what-matters-1281159 Traditional #neuroscience mythologized the amygdala as a simple fear switch, but recent studies on a rare genetic disorder reveal its deeper role in social and economic decision-making. 1/4

diminished ability to flexibly weigh uncertainty, self-interest, and the intentions of others." This computational deficit often manifests as extreme generosity to strangers, demonstrating "...a willingness to help others without the usual filtering of context." Complex social choices rely on 3/4

#EconSky How Your #Brain Decides What Matters https://nautil.us/how-your-brain-decides-what-matters-1281159 Traditional #neuroscience mythologized the amygdala as a simple fear switch, but recent studies on a rare genetic disorder reveal its deeper role in social and economic decision-making. 1/4