By Alexandros Sainidis and Evangelos Chondros It is no secret that gathering information for humanitarian disciplines is uniquely difficult. Unlike concrete experiments coming from observation, we dance with coincidence, correlation, ethical dilemmas and disturbances caused by low-stake conditions. While the biologist can dissect a frog for their experiment, we are limited to tools such as…
Occasionally, I use a grocery delivery service—not always, and not for every item. In a vacuum, one might think that having someone else take the time to gather grocery items for me and bring those items to my house seems clearly advantageous. So why don’t I always use this service? A few ideas from economics…
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When you think of Panerai, certain images rise to the surface. That robust cushion-cased shape. The rugged crown-protecting guard. A dial that feels like it radiates more than it glows in the dark. After the images settle, a word normally follows shortly after—Luminor. If you didn’t already know, 2025 is the year of the Luminor for Panerai—the collection…
And CPI nowcasted to rise in August, too: Figure 1: Instantaneous inflation for core CPI (black, left scale), chained core CPI (gray, left scale), core PCE deflator (light blue, left scale), core PPI (red, right scale). Core PCE inflation for August is Cleveland Fed y/y nowcast as of 9/1. All per Eeckhout…
September 3, 2025 As Democrats sharpen their online game, Gavin Newsom’s Trump-style jabs reveal both the risks and rewards of fighting fire with fire in an attention economy built for bluster. Ad Policy US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are greeted by California Governor Gavin Newsom upon arrival at Los Angeles International…
“We carry a bag of clothes instead of a school bag,” she told UN News. Diana and other students shared their eagerness to get back in the classroom, speaking from schools that have been converted into shelters for Gaza’s displaced, where most of the 2.3 million Palestinian residents have been forced to move multiple times…
A central argument of this book is that episodes involving mass violence that contribute to an atmosphere of social unrest and political instability are likely to increase national elites’ willingness to invest in primary education in order to prevent future threats against the state… they lead elites to conclude that repression and redistributive concessions alone…
Tourists gather at a parking lot in the center of Berlin, Germany. Greg Rosalsky/NPR hide caption toggle caption Greg Rosalsky/NPR This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. BERLIN — On a Wednesday afternoon in late August, I traveled to a tourist attraction in the heart of Germany’s capital. If…
By Mr. Maverick From the 1881 assassination of the Russian Tsar Alexander II by dynamite to the Hamas’s horrific attack on October 7, it is clear that the capabilities of terrorist actors have grown exponentially. In his lecture “Politics as a Vocation” (1918), the German sociologist Max Weber defines the state as a “human community…