Thomas PHILIPPON

@ThomasPHI2

Economist. Dad. Rock climber. Author of The Great Reversal.

NYC, Paris
Joined February 2014
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    30 Sep 2019

    J-30: The first copy of the book has arrived! Make sure to pre-order to get yours on October 29. The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets,

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    Dec 17

    I would like to ask one to be careful on not interpretation of Gauteng data from middle December. The reason is that Gauteng get quite empty and 100,000s of migrant workers and holiday makers leave. Tip, get a look at Beta wave at similar time last year in Gauteng

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    Dec 17

    Coal consumption has increased by 9% in 2021. Coal is the worst source of CO2, and the lowest hanging fruit of the energy transition. Even that fruit is not picked. EU must impose carbon border adjustments, whereas 🇩🇪 and 🇵🇱 must exit coal asap!

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    20 hours ago

    1,400 years ago, Mahabhaskariya of Bhaskara I discovered with this approximation for the sine function (0 ≤ x ≤ π)

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    Dec 16

    Am I testing my hypothesis or is my hypothesis testing me?

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    Dec 17

    Bloomberg: South Africa Hospitalization Rate Plunges in Omicron Wave - “Only 1.7% of identified Covid-19 cases were admitted to hospital in the second week of infections in the fourth wave, compared with 19% in the same week of the third delta-driven wave”

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  7. Dec 17

    Proctoring exams on Zoom be like Panopticon

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    Dec 16

    Clear evidence that covid cases have peaked in province in South Africa suggests we don’t fully understand epidemiology of this variant. The very rapid rise and then decline in cases suggests many possibilities, including that we’re missing a lot of subclinical infection

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    Dec 17

    Zip's law for followers of economists on Twitter: an empirical investigation based on data :). With (left graph) and without (right graph) Paul Krugman

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    Dec 16

    Professional news: I am honored to have been nominated by the President of the Republic to become president of the French Competition Authority . I look forward to being heard by the French National Assembly and Senate.

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    Dec 15

    🚨 We're hiring for an Applied Micro position at University of Hawai'i.🚨 -Tenure track. -2 courses per year teaching load. -Decent weather.🏝️

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    Dec 16

    This fall, we welcomed to the faculty. He is the inaugural Richard and Beverly Fink Professor in Economics. Get to know Kjetil by reading this short article:

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    Dec 16

    The government may avoid moral hazard and implement the first best allocation by using the distribution of bailouts across banks to provide ex ante incentives in bank resolution, from and Olivier Wang

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  14. Dec 15

    Keechant Sewell to Become First Woman to Lead N.Y.P.D.

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  15. Dec 15

    Somewhat counter-intuitive but interesting. Russia and China’s Dangerous Decline by

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  16. Dec 15

    Walmart’s Lesson for Rohit Chopra and the CFPB by James Cooper via

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  17. Dec 14

    … were arguing about average steady rate then would say 50% and 30% and suddenly we’d be having a civilized discussion over a cup of tea.

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  18. Dec 14

    The thing is, I don’t think and positions are as far apart as they seem. One big issue is timing of collection. Tax code that makes 0, 0, A LOT, 0,0 is recipe for political fight. If instead we …

    Replying to @SenWarren
    And if you opened your eyes for 2 seconds, you would realize I will pay more taxes than any American in history this year
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  19. Dec 14

    Now imagine that writer on climate change ...

    As an ID physician, frontline worker, & public health professional, I think I’ve generally held my sh*t together pretty well over the past two years (not lashing out, being civil) but this garbage article undid me (let me explain)-please read
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    Dec 14

    Took a look at the omicron data out of stress/curiosity (reposting with more data, disclaimer: I am NOT an epidemiologist). Cases are way up in South Africa, deaths are not. Since deaths lag cases, not clear to eye whether low deaths are unusual or just not here yet. (1/3)

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  21. Dec 14

    Amazing gallery of useful idiots. How Beijing Influences the Influencers

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