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Fri, 29/08/2025 - 21:27
There are several reasons for the insularity of economics, most importantly the different epistemological cultures of the various social science disciplines and the power inequalities between them. First, the theory of action that comes with economists’ analytical style is hardly compatible with the basic premise of much of the human sciences, namely that social processes […]
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Fri, 29/08/2025 - 19:07

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) — the industry powerhouse that has been unrivalled since buying out World Championship Wrestling, its former competitor, in the early 2000s — is fairly openly aligned with Donald Trump’s administration. Recently, they rehired Brock Lesnar, who is implicated in the Vince McMahon sex trafficking scandal; WWE has close relationships with Logan […]

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Fri, 29/08/2025 - 17:00
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Fri, 29/08/2025 - 16:04
The rational expectations hypothesis presupposes — largely for reasons of internal consistency — that agents possess complete knowledge of all relevant probability distributions. When economists attempt to incorporate learning into these models, it is always in a very restricted sense. Nothing genuinely unanticipated ever occurs; instead, learning is reduced to a mechanical process of updating […]
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Fri, 29/08/2025 - 15:44
Truth and justice are the essential foundations of any legitimate political order—not merely moral abstractions. Deny truth, and you replace reason with power. Abandon justice, and you permit domination to thrive. This is vividly clear in Gaza and Ukraine, where truth and justice are shown to be not distant ideals but concrete conditions for peace. […]
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Fri, 29/08/2025 - 11:53
Quantum mechanics is seriously weird. The majority of us have a model of the world based primarily on Newtonian physics. We believe in cause and effect. The universe is a giant machine following laws, and if there wasn’t a single conscious being in it, those laws would still be the same. But in quantum mechanics […]
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Fri, 29/08/2025 - 08:59
Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 26 calls for papers for conferences (some are partly and fully funded) and special issues, 8 PhD scholarships, 7 job openings, 5 postdoc positions, a grant, a course, an award, a visiting fellowship, and an internship in […]
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Fri, 29/08/2025 - 03:00

Welcome to this tiny fifth-floor Airbnb, your home for the next four days in a major European city. Can you escape without incurring additional fees for cleaning or damage?

Let the games begin.

First, you must open this rusty lockbox containing the apartment keys. The numbers have worn off the keypad, and the latch sticks, so you may have to lightly smash it with a rock. However, if you damage the lockbox, you will be charged a 300 replacement fee.

Hear that ominous clunk? It means either that you are about to plummet to your death in this coffin-sized elevator or that it’s functioning normally.

In this bedroom are fourteen light switches. Ten of them do nothing. One turns on the television, which will blast Eurovision at top volume. One sounds an alarm in the home of your grouchy next-door neighbor who hates Americans and will let his French bulldog poop on your doorstep. One notifies the trash collectors on the street outside that you would like them to crush glass beneath your window. Only one activates the tiny IKEA lamp at your bedside. Can you choose the right one in time?