Steven N. Durlauf
@sndurlauf
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Professor and Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility @UCStoneCenter @HarrisPolicy @UChicago
Chicago, IL
Joined August 2015
4/ Pedigree is a wonderful study, based on interviews and observation, of the process of hiring at elite firms. I strongly recommend.
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Very much looking forward to this conversation with @IngridRobeyns which David Lay Williams @laywilliams will moderate.
Should billionaires be outlawed? Join philosopher @IngridRobeyns and economist @sndurlauf for a thought-provoking conversation on the merits of limitarianism moderated by political scientist David @LayWilliams. Engage with the ethical and practical complexities of the issue and join us in asking, "How much is enough"? šRegister here: š
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 šTime: 4:30 ā 5:00 PM Registration 5:00 ā 7:30 PM - Program & Reception šLocation: The Keller Forum, @HarrisPolicy Open to the public. #Limitarianism #ExtremeWealth
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RT @UCStoneCenter: Should billionaires be outlawed? Join philosopher @IngridRobeyns and economist @sndurlauf for a thought-provoking converā¦
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These insults are as offensive as they are intellectually unserious, and I say this as someone who deeply disagrees with Sowell's views on inequality and distributive justice.
Sowell is a propagandistic pseudoscientist so he's exactly the sort of writer I'd expect to be lavished with honors by the Trump administration
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RT @UCStoneCenter: Inequality Workshop Update! Please note that the upcoming Inequality Workshop will now feature Stone Center Director @sā¦
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5/ All of this is to say that political theorists and philosophers are important to the @UCStoneCenter and so it is wonderful that David is now an affiliate (and already engaged in the meritocracy work).
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King Cnut 2025
US President Donald Trump said he would demand that interest rates drop immediately and that other countries should follow suit in special address during the World Economic Forum meeting
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Cui Bono.
watching @potus more carefully recently has really changed my perspective on him (i wish i had done more of my own thinking and definitely fell in the npc trap). i'mĀ not going to agree with him on everything, but i think he will be incredible for the country in many ways!
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Tweet of the day.
Gives a whole new meaning to "ceteris paribus".
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Publicly humiliating the author of a foolish tweet in the service of a high school level critique/commentary on Marx is the action of a bully, not a serious writer. The assistant professor in question has now taken his account private. Disgraceful.
An English prof recently declared that economics was "fake" because economists don't read Marx. Well, that's just silly. But reading Marx is still useful, as a cautionary tale of what can happen when social science gets too arrogant.
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