I will present two lectures on "Some Economics of Inequality"
Lecture 1 – Non-Stationary Wealth Dynamics and Taxation in the U.S. With an Application to the Racial Gap – with Jess Benhabib (NYU) and Mi Luo (Peking Un.)
Lecture 2: The Circulation of Elites – with Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics)
acsi.lakecomoschool.org/prog…
To apply:
i) fill the form here acsi.lakecomoschool.org/appl… ii) attach a short motivation and brief CV. Participants can present posters.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 30 April 2026
In 1789, rumours spread like a virus across France: gangs of bandits were attacking villages, destroying crops and terrorizing peasants, mobilized by nobles trying to suppress political unrest.
None of it was true
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It's always fascinating to observe cell migration in #confinement in vivo! This study from @SZapperi and @CAMLaPorta et al used intravital multiphoton microscopy to uncover a multicellular, low-cohesion mode of HT1080 collective migration-GX doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2414009…
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Our August issue is now live, and it features a Focus that highlights the state of the art, challenges, and opportunities in the computational design of metamaterials.
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Il metabolismo delle città
Caterina La Porta e Stefano Zapperi (@LaStatale) usano funzioni scalari "urbane" per descrivere i rapporti socio-economici tra emissioni e inquinamento in città europee con popolazioni paragonabili.
Quante risorse consumano
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In the beautiful context of Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, students present alternative routing algos developed during lab activities.
Congrats and thanks to everybody for the effort and the innovative ideas!
acsz.lakecomoschool.org/@ComplexAndBio@SZapperi@CAMLaPorta
Do we waste all that time writing grants?
A controlled study by @arnoutvanderijt finds we do:
CV without the grant proposal has no difference in ranking compared to CV with the grant.
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