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MARKET POWER IS POWER
New working paper with @bartonelee2
Thread below! 1/5
gratton.org/papers/MarketP…
Gabriele Gratton
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Gabriele Gratton
@grattonecon
Professor of Politics and Economics @UNSWEcon. @ARC_gov_au Future Fellow. Co-director and founder resilientdemocracylab.org.
- Oh, come on you guys. This one is obvious. 🗺️ All of us 🇹🇷 Daron
- For illiberal democracies, info control is everything. Delaying counts in opposition strongholds gives appearance that Erdogan has big adv. If then tomorrow numbers are inverted, his followers may think things got rigged in the night.
- 🎉🎉"From Weber to Kafka" is now officially forthcoming in the AER!🎉🎉 Took a while but it was worth it. :)😎😜🤪🙃Forthcoming in the AER: "From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Overproduction of Laws" by Gabriele Gratton, Luigi Guiso, Claudio Michelacci, and Massimo Morelli. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
- Never happened to me before: Woke up on two consecutive mornings to conditional acceptances. And today's one is signed Esther Duflo, after a an almost 4-year long back and forth with 2 editors and 6 referees. 2020 has been a shit year, but at least I get Xmas presents!
GIF - It’s PhD admissions time. Time to remember the best Econ PhD meme of all times.I can't stop now that I've started
00:00 - ‼️Your loss is that my @UNSWEcon colleague Hasin Yousaf, a truly wonderful man and scholar, is not on twitter! But he’s just got tenure and I’ll let him know of your likes and retweets 😉 🎉🎊🎉🎉🥳🥳
- The myth that “education” will defeat populism and strengthen democracy is dangerous and is an internal threat to democratic resilience. We won’t save liberal democracy by placing ourselves on this pedestal of philosopher kings. Let me explain: 1/🧵👇For Almond and Verba (1963), education is the foundation of a civic culture, strengthening support for democratic values. Here's some new evidence from the 2024 US-WVS. No wonder academic freedom & autonomy are attacked by authoritarian forces.
- 🇮🇹 The most astonishing bit of this graph is that it is NOT on the first page of every Italian newspaper every single day. It should.Replying to @MoreBirthsBut if you control for *working age population* a remarkable thing happens: It turns out that most of the developed-world economies have performed similarly since 1990. (3/7)
- Replying to @SHamiltonianThat’s what I was referring to. We’re finally doing it and should support our leaders who are pushing for this. We stand with 🇺🇦. We stand for freedom. 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧
- 🖨️Call me Gratton and Lee (2024) 😎 “Liberty, Security, and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies” Review of Economic Studies, 91(1): 340–371
- 🚨WE🦘ARE🦘HIRING!!! @UNSWEcon is looking for one or more junior (or non-junior) scholars to join us in Sydney, Australia! Apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/9976 + A 🧵!!! 👇👇👇
