Georg Weizsäcker
Microeconomist, Behavioral Economist, Author of "Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication"
- Gaining credibility by not maximizing income
- Harvard president takes 25 percent pay cut amid funding battle with Trump Harvard President Alan Garber has decided to take a 25 percent pay cut as the university faces multiple financial hits in its battle with the Trump administration. thehill.com/homenews/edu...
- The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany argues for allowing aid to enter Gaza. 👍 www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/schu...
- „ridiculous and dangerous don’t contradict each other“ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung‘s fitting summary of this „kingdom“) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/w...
- Thank you, to colleagues in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪, for adding these important quantifications to the tariff discussion — PDF in English 👇 Overall, the strategic situation of the EU appears not too bad www.sachverstaendigenrat-wirtschaft.de/fileadmin/da...
- EINE NEUE ORDNUNG IM WELTHANDEL: Wie die EU auf die US-Zollpolitik reagieren sollte. Neuer Policy Brief des „Deutsch-Französischen Rats der Wirtschaftsexperten“ zum Thema #Zollpolitik Die Erhaltung der Offenheit des Welthandels muss Kernziel der EU bleiben. Dies erfordert:
- Among the many good things about teaching decision theory: Risk seeking also goes by the name "risk loving" so that you may write on the board 👨🏫 loving = seeking and trust that this insight is one to look at and smile.
- Interesting historical perspective - thank you! - the fact that @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social and many more people (I, too) use „beliefs“ and „expectations“ interchangably is related to the framework that you ask about. One may say we stick to subjective expected utility theory as close as possible.
- 1/n I just attended a cool lecture by Y. Gorodnichenko on measuring uncertainty in inflation expectations through surveys ( www.nber.org/papers/w33014 ) I'm now trying to reconcile the gap between present practices and my current research on the changing status of surveys in econ since the 1940s
- German colleagues, take note
- 🚀 Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft has launched its Advanced Professorship funding program to attract top international researchers for German universities. Universities can apply for up to €1.6 million. 👉 tinyurl.com/2yk3cutu #ScienceCareers #AcademicMobility #ResearchFunding #HigherEd #AcademicFreedom
- Israel's president visits Berlin - Welcome! Germany is grateful to call Israel a friend, even during the unbearable Gaza war. The Int'l Red Cross puts it well: "Aid must be allowed to enter Gaza. Hostages must be released." Both of it unconditionally.
- Israel and the occupied territories | Without an immediate resumption of aid deliveries, we won't have access to the food, medicines, and life-saving supplies needed to sustain many of its programmes in Gaza. Read more in our news release: ms.spr.ly/63326SrpAe
- Software giant #SAP cuts DEI, for Trump. Many others disagree. 👇 A related discussion: Is DEI to blame for Trump? It seems to trigger MAGA, so was it a big mistake? No! (Sorry, guys.) If reasonable acts trigger a fanatic, the fanatic is at fault. fortune.com/article/dei-...
- Cutting into the NSF is another step in the destruction of knowledge and science. It will happen here, too, if we allow things to slide.
- Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs (to save on the cost of bird feed, and promote the kinds of viewpoint diversity that the “S” in NSF tries to filter out via peer review…) marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/nsf-...
