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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
Toronto, Ontario
Joined November 2008
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    I think we have discovered that universal public education was probably more about the childcare than about the education.
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    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.
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    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
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    Ahh Matt Levine. The right take.
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    Who is this person thinking he can just talk to people like adults?
    My thoughts on the government funding bill ↓
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    It has arrived. Out in December. Cover by me with ChatGPT assistance.
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    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
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    Esther Duflo is the youngest Nobel laureate in economics. She is 46.
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    That day when your PhD supervisor wins the Nobel prize!
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    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!
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    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.
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    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]
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    Today in “I can’t believe this is still a Covid indicator”
    Replying to @drewtoothpaste
    Here's a plot of the "no smell" complaints for the top three Yankee Candles on Amazon.
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    OK this is interesting. Google trends.