Erik Angner

Have I mentioned my book!? It tries to inspire action by arguing we already sort-of know what needs to be done about the world's biggest problems – and have a pretty good idea of what a solution looks like. Also, economics is not what you think! www.amazon.com/How-Economic...

Ekonomia jest zdominowana przez mężczyzn i przez ekonomistów z jednej części świata. Laureaci Nagrody Nobla wywodzą się zwykle z tych samych trzech uczelni. Jest też wyjątkowo zamknięta w sobie. Szkoda, bo mogłaby wiele zyskać, czerpiąc z dorobku innych nauk – mówi prof. Erik Angner.

The metaphors in this season's America are a little heavy-handed, don't you think? ➡️ "Pete Hegseth’s staff break priceless historic globe"

Ohlinföreläsningen 2026: "Är en bättre värld fortfarande möjlig?" På Snickeriet i Stockholm, den 25 november kl. 18. Gratis och öppet för alla, men anmälan är obligatorisk: ohlininstitutet.se/2026/10/19/o...

"Årets lärare om att vara en bra lärare" – i intervju med Stockholms universitets nyhetsbrev: www.su.se/nyheter/nyhe...

A couple of snapshots from the European Forum for New Ideas in Sopot, Poland, where among other things I talked to @financialtimes.com correspondent Raphael Minder about my recent book, seen here in its Polish translation. 📸 Konfederacja Lewiatan

This is a wild take when we’re in the middle of what could turn out to be one of the largest and most catastrophic misallocations of capital in human history driven by billionaire groupthink that was caused by a shared misinformation bubble that they created on purpose.

Yes ”when optimism turns into a drug and people lose the ability to calculate risk” that is often ominous

The President of Singapore 🇸🇬 is in town to be fêted, so this is a good moment to review its Freedom House score: a pathetic 48/100 freedomhouse.org/country/sing...

Nu ska Thand Ringqvist samtala med *alla* partiledare? Det är väldigt svårt att se en konsekvent strategi här: www.dn.se/direkt/2026-...

Every paragraph of this story is *gold* But who could have known, amiri … oh yes, everyone grading Al slop submitted by students, that’s who.

These days, it’s easy to succumb to hopelessness. But I explain why doomerism can lead to paralysis in a new article I wrote for The Guardian The problem with doomerism isn’t necessarily that the risks are exaggerated, but that it may create a self-fulfilling prophecy and create helplessness

Complete lawlessness

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

"It's hard to bomb a country into submission. But Russia is trying." Uh — isn't this what the US is doing in Iran?

Just because I have imposter syndrome doesn’t mean I’m not an imposter, right!?

Good morning, Poland 🇵🇱

File under ”Could have told you”: Being around attractive women make straight men stupid (via @jayvanbavel.bsky.social)

I’m old enough to remember a time when Republicans were very much opposed to this sort of thing.

Wish I knew more macro. I did complete the PhD-level core sequence but everything I remember doing was solving dynamic linear programming problems 🫨🫨🫨

Deadline coming up! The opportunity should be interesting, not the least, to students wishing to pursue a PhD in PPE #philosophyjobs

2026 economic sciences laureates Robert E. Hall’s and Michael Woodford’s research has made us better equipped to manage economic downturns. They laid the foundation of the New Keynesian paradigm, in which models are built upon microfoundations, which means from the bottom up.

The Economics Nobel* will be announced today! You can watch the announcement live here at 11:45 CEST: www.nobelprize.org via @nobelprize.org #EconomicsNobel *I know, I know.

"My dad never spoke a word to me and I turned out fine" – AI dude who spends his time training a voice model so he doesn't have to speak a word to his kid.

And somehow we've put the future of humankind in the hands of people utterly devoid of normal human emotions, empathy and humanity. I do not feel good about this.

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Like a wise person once said: "If it's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well."