Associate Prof of Civic Leadership and Economics at UT Austin. Author of Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy. Catholic wife and mom of 6.
Austin, TX
Joined July 2010
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Here is a nice review of my book in Library Journal: libraryjournal.com/review/sh…
Please consider pre-ordering!
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I love @DeirdreMcClosk and this deeply entertaining and mind-bending book.
She is the only social critic whose work gets endorsed by people who completely disagree with her. She is the last unicorn. And this book might be her best yet.
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#DailyLincoln #80
"Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, patriotic men, are better than gold."
- Abraham Lincoln, November 10, 1864
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Pretty high praise for @DeirdreMcClosk opus EQUALITY OF PERMISSION, publishing next month from @UChicagoPress
Deirdre McCloskey has a forthcoming book — Equality of Permission (Chicago) — that all liberals should read. I think it is no exaggeration to say that this work alongside Bill Easterly’s Violent Saviors and Barry Weingast’s forthcoming book on Adam Smith are the most important social scientific works in recent times to put liberty at the center of the analysis. Here is a great conversation from a decade ago between Don Boudreaux and McCloskey on the Bourgeoise trilogy.
mercatus.org/hayekprogram/ha…
Carola Conces Binder retweeted
#DailyLincoln #68
Lincoln famously used his hat as a file cabinet. Once, in 1850, he confessed to another lawyer:
"I am ashamed of not sooner answering your letter, herewith returned; and, my only appologies are, first, that I have been very busy in the U.S. court; and second, that when I received the letter I put it in my old hat, and buying a new one the next day, the old one was set aside, and so, the letter [was] lost sight of for a time."
Now his hat is a @Crayola color!
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🎉 Happy Constitution Day!
✍️🏽 Today marks the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787. It is the greatest secular document ever written.
📜 The Constitution endures not because it is perfect, but because every generation has chosen to keep it, to adapt it to their needs, and to call it their own.
I greatly appreciate the @bde_Research awesome data and team that made this project possible. I hope anyone who works with density forecasts will benefit from the paper.
"Bunching" affects the measurement of uncertainty from probabilistic survey questions but interventions can reduce it, from @cconces, Laura Crespo, Carlos Gento, @lm_guirola, and @ernesvillanueva nber.org/papers/w35733
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To get causal evidence, we evaluated an intervention in the EFF that pushed interviewers to ensure a proper understanding of probabilistic expectations. The result?
A large 15-pp drop in bunching. True uncertainty is often hidden behind correctable survey artifacts. 📉
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New WP with Carola Binder, Laura Crespo, Carlos Gento, and Ernesto Villanueva!
Economic uncertainty is crucial but notoriously hard to measure. Probabilistic survey questions are the gold standard, but we show they can systematically misrepresent it. 🧵👇 nber.org/papers/w35733
I love this review so much! @BryanPCutsinger perfectly captures what I was trying to do with my book.
'Shock Values' traces how Americans have argued about prices and inflation from the colonial period to the aftermath of the pandemic, and how those arguments reshaped courts, coalitions and the machinery of government.
@BryanPCutsinger reviews @cconces theceme.substack.com/p/shock…
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'Shock Values' traces how Americans have argued about prices and inflation from the colonial period to the aftermath of the pandemic, and how those arguments reshaped courts, coalitions and the machinery of government.
@BryanPCutsinger reviews @cconces theceme.substack.com/p/shock…
Carola Conces Binder retweeted
This is racist and sinful rhetoric that seeks to harm and to divide. It is disturbing that it comes from a candidate for public office. An apology is called for. @FWdiocese @NTCatholic @TXCatholic @USCCBGovRel #Txlege
Carola Conces Binder retweeted
Great advertising. A key skill in civic leadership is maintaining a friendly smile while shaking hands with hundreds of people. Dyer is clearly the man for the job.
It's umpire, ref, AND player all in one.
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1/ New paper with @siriterjesen: we checked whether the accreditors that certify medical, dental, nursing, and law schools are actually independent from the professions they regulate. Short answer: 88% of the time, they're not. They're the SAME organization. 🧵
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"Our Review, as its name points out, is to be Catholic and American. Its aim, therefore, will be to explain and defend the Catholic theory of revealed Truth, ... It shall be our endeavor also to show the practical development and working of Catholic principle in the history of the world, in the lives of great and good men, and in the destinies of nations."
So begins the Salutatory in the first issue of The American Catholic Quarterly Review (ACQR), published January 1876, auspiciously, in the centenary year of the nation’s founding.
I could not be more thrilled to announce that today @GibbonsCUA @CatholicUniv relaunches the esteemed American Catholic Quarterly Review.
Read and subscribe!
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For many years I have been a prolific referee (multiple papers per month, at least) because I read the papers and take notes on my phone before writing the report. This is disappointing and hopefully only temporary, @ElsevierConnect.
