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Opinion: Canada needs to have a plan for the U.S., no matter who becomes president. That starts with making us matter more /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Here's a short summary of the Economics of Generative AI that Danielle Li and I wrote for the NBER

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I wanted to share with people on Twitter the total breakdown of sales of my book, Causal Inference: The Mixtape, published by Yale University Press in January 2021.

Wow 😮 Big news 🍪

Great to see this great business school textbook in print! A new classic by Joshua Gans Scott Stern and Erin L Scott, PhD #tech #Entrepreneurship #innovation #strategy

Wrote a book chapter in late 2022, some actual books arrived this week!

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute and for the terrific introduction Ajay Agrawal Joshua Gans Avi Goldfarb Catherine Tucker NBER 🫶

Great line-up in the special issue of JEMS! We managed to get Joel Waldfogel, Tim Bresnahan, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb, Kristina McElheran, Erik Brynjolfsson and many other awesome authors in the same issue!

Philipp Strack has won the Clark! He's an absolute monster of a micro theoristfrom the great @unibonn tradition in theory & pure math. In line with that tradition, I see his work as mainly on two subjects: when is info valuable & how do we use it to make decisions over time. 1/x

Newly Accepted Articles 03/24 (2 of 3)

Frontiers: 'Digital Hermits' by

Miklós-Thal, Jeanine, Goldfarb, Avi, Haviv, Avery, and Tucker, Catherine E. Avi Goldfarb Avery Haviv Catherine Tucker

Jonathan Levin, a distinguished economist and Stanford alumnus who has led the Stanford Graduate School of Business as dean for the last eight years, has been appointed the next president of Stanford University, the Board of Trustees announced today. stanford.io/3TIqneN

#QJE May 2024, #2, “Machine Learning as a Tool for Scientific Discovery,” by Ludwig (Jens Ludwig) and Mullainathan (@m_sendhil): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

MIT's David Autor calls his optimistic case “not a forecast but an argument” for an alternative path ahead, very different from the jobs apocalypse foreseen by Elon Musk and others.
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We're delighted to be hosting the Chief Behavioural Officer's summit at BEAR UofT Rotman School in May! cbo25.com Jez Groom Rory Sutherland Roger L. Martin Impact Canada Katy Milkman Cass Sunstein Richard H Thaler Avi Goldfarb Ajay Agrawal

Early View: “Pause artificial intelligence research? Understanding AI policy challenges,” by Avi Goldfarb (Avi Goldfarb). Open access, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ca…. Wiley Economics

This 10min video is well worth watching given everything that's happened in #AI over the past 18 months.

Nobel laureate Danny #Kahneman passed away yesterday. In 2017 he spoke at our NBER Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) Economics of #AI conference in #Toronto . He focuses less on the

Call for papers, Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Political Economy Challenges. The conference will be held in Toronto, Canada on September 19–20, 2024. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on June 1, 2024. More information: nber.org/calls-papers-a…

The NBER September AI meetings will focus on political economy. Submit your papers here: nber.org/calls-papers-a…

This will help you with your digging Shivon Zilis - a panel conversation at the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) 2015 conf with Geoffrey Hinton Russ Salakhutdinov and Ilya Sutskever moderated by Jack Clark - in his intro, Jack explains to the audience that Ilya has just co-founded a non-profit that nobody has heard

Ch 7, An Economic Framework for Understanding AI, explores when, how, and why AI may be adopted, and adapts standard economic models to explore AI’s potential labor market impacts.

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NBER Summer Institute Deadline is in three days: Thursday March 21. Submit here: nber.org/conferences/si…