Belka the space dog upon returning from her cosmic voyage. USSR, August 1960
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Jonny Bunning
@bunnjey
Writing a history of 'human capital' in the 20th century. Harper fellow, UChicago Society of Fellows. Formerly: Yale hist. sci.
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Changing my pronouns to Columbia MFA
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1 Billion Sea Creatures Cooked to Death in Northwest Heat Wave
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what 'erasing history' actually looks like
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Happening now!
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So I’ve posted TikToks from this woman before...she rescued a beaver and is rehabilitating him for eventual reintegration into the wild
But he can’t stop being a beaver, so he keeps trying to build a dam in her house using her furniture and other items.
vm.tiktok.com/ZMJQVV2c9/
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University of Chicago History and Theory of Capitalism Workshop TODAY, November 18th, from 4:30 to 6:00 PM CST: Johnny Bunning, "Economists Without Borders: Latin America and the Cold War Origins of Human Capital Theory at Chicago." Get in touch for Zoom link.
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Passed California Ballot Measure Allows Uber, Lyft To Categorize Workers As Car Parts bit.ly/3kZviFA
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US military psychological operations officers attempted to pacify Iraqis by teaching children the macarena. Now this tactic is successfully being used on protesters in the US to get them to abide by curfew. This is a counter-insurgency strategy.
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Countdown to curfew in Atlanta
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“FUCK”
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Tear gas has been fired outside the White House at protesters who, on TV, appeared to have their hands raised or were not being aggressive, just chanting.
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Both Lehman and J.P.Morgan were amongst those who accepted slaves as collateral.
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I did not know there was de facto securization of slavery. twitter.com/steelewheelz/s…
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Are there any good histories of how oil benchmarks became standardized? I can't be the first to wonder why a town of 8,000 in Oklahoma and a stretch of sea off of Scotland became the key metrics of the petro-economy.
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Read our latest from @eblichtenstein on organizing in the COVID university: So no, I am not getting a (tenure-track) job. None of us are. Most of us never were. That myth is dead, thank god. All we have now is stark reality: we have less than ever to lose.
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In 1801 Napoleon sent 20,000 troops to put down the Haitian revolution. They soon controlled the island. Then came the yellow fever, decimating the French and forcing them to withdraw. The result: Haiti got free and Napoleon sold Louisiana to the new United States.
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One of 30 million uninsured Americans gets $35,000 medical bill for coronavirus treatment
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In 1984 Soviet bureaucrats appointed a new leader—Konstantin Chernenko, a throwback candidate who promised to revive a stagnant economy by returning to the glory days of Brezhnev. Decrepit, he had to be carried into position for the rare public appearances he did not avoid. 🤔
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what a fucked up country this is
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Who knew that foosball was invented by a disabled anti-fascist Spanish poet who also dodged deportation with a bar of soap? 😮theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/
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Milton Friedman gets busted
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Does anyone (#econtwitter ?) have recs for histories of Soviet population and/or demography in the Cold War? The USA were very interested in this, but I know of no secondary studies. Russian language sources ok.
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"Human Capital and the Labor Market" -- call for papers (two-day workshop at UC Santa Barbara in April 2020) ysd.ineteconomics.org/project/5d8d15 @nellrjay
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Listen to @KatharinaPistor! It boggles the mind that facebook's ludicrous Libra racket was not loudly laughed out of the room this week but has instead found "open minds" at the world's central banks.
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After years of disregarding privacy, exploiting user data, and failing to control its platform, @facebook has now unveiled a cryptocurrency and payment system that could take down the entire global economy | @KatharinaPistor bit.ly/2WT96jz
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Describe graduate school in one gif.
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I feel the need to share Frida Kahlo's 1931 portrait of early 20th century biotechnologist Luther Burbank ("the Edison of the garden") as a person-plant hybrid growing from his own corpse.
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A whopping 37% of Harvard College’s Class of 2022 is comprised of legacy students (i.e. a close family relative attended the College). #VarsityBlues My chart:
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During Prohibition, your doctor could write you a prescription for booze. smithmag.co/kmwDSb
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