I think we have discovered that universal public education was probably more about the childcare than about the education.
Joshua Gans
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Joshua Gans
@joshgans
Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Chief Economist of Creative Destruction Lab bio.site/joshuagans
- US: we will spend $6 billion on a Wall and nothing on AI today. China: we will spend $6 billion on AI. We built a Wall in medieval times.
- This is quite something. Two Nobel immigrants to the US leaving to emigrate to another country.I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ_uzh at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7
- Who is this person thinking he can just talk to people like adults?My thoughts on the government funding bill ↓
00:00 - It has arrived. Out in December. Cover by me with ChatGPT assistance.
- Just discovered this fantastic webpage that gives every possible teaching graph for economics that you would ever want all manipulable on the web. Fantastic. econgraphs.org
- Esther Duflo is the youngest Nobel laureate in economics. She is 46.
- That day when your PhD supervisor wins the Nobel prize!
- I see that the advisors are having a great impact.THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!
- My daughter asked what Milgrom and Wilson did to win the Nobel prize. I decided to see if I could explain it using the 1,000 most common words.
- OK time to weigh in on the Gigi Foster COVID-19 view for Australia. I'll do this as academics should but to forecast I am disappointed she took these views to the media without research backup. [1/n]
- Today in “I can’t believe this is still a Covid indicator”Replying to @drewtoothpasteHere's a plot of the "no smell" complaints for the top three Yankee Candles on Amazon.
