#AcademicRunPlaylist - 2/19/24

During my run today I got a good look at a beaver swimming on the Charles (it took me some time to get out my phone to get a picture, but you can see its nose poking out of the water in the pic), and I also was able to listen to some good talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an excellent talk by Paul Romer on the need to evolve antitrust thinking and a follow up panel with Eleanor Fox, Andrew Gavil, Thomas Höppner, William Kovacic, and Daniel Rubinfeld at the New York University School of Law. While this talk is from nearly four years ago (they probably should've done this event virtually 😬), it's still extremely relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSSGaQ9xwd8

Next was an amazing talk by Sa-kiera Hudson on the divergence between descriptive and prescriptive stereotypes about gay men and lesbian women at the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Hudson presents compelling evidence that these groups essentially see universal downgrading of their perceived status in a US sample, but in complex ways. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-1rVwlv8n0

Next was an insightful talk by Danielle Li on building exploration metrics into hiring algorithms at the CEPR - Centre for Economic Policy Research. Li uses data from a professional services firm to show how different algorithmic choices perform, showing that they nearly always recommend interview groups that have higher diversity than human-selected groups. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WbMbk4f3Wk

Next was an intriguing talk by Karen Liu on building large models for human motion at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5XubaE4cXY

Next was an engaging panel on the inequality of wealth with Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, Barbara Petrongolo, and Brian Nolan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmxRJrrR0QA

Next was an interesting conversation with Albert Kao on animal sociality and collective computation at the Santa Fe Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2MR939LJIw

Next was a great talk by Thomas Piketty on capital, ideology, and inequality at the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State. There's some good debunking of a lot of 1980s-era economic thinking during the discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FQ6c1iqnTs

Last was a nice talk by Renato Gomes on regulating platform fees under price parity at the Toulouse School of Economics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmA8BEPzYNE