Professor, Kellogg School of Management
Joined July 2009
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Ben Jones retweeted
27 Nov 2023
Announcing a short course! ifp.org/economics-of-ideas/
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Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Online PhD Short Course | Institute for Progress
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Ben Jones retweeted
25 Sep 2023
š¢ Future episodes of @POID_LSE @POID_cast have interviews with @heidilwilliams_ @PMoserEcon @bfjo @ufukakcigit @pierre_azoulay @XJaravel Naomi Lamoreaux
buff.ly/3PwkiA7 (Spotify) buff.ly/46te8HT (Apple) @ruveyda_gozen
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The Ryan Institute on Complexity is launched! An investment in innovation research, and in the ālab modelā for social science. Huge thanks to the Ryan family for betting on this work. And Iām so excited to work with @dashunwang and @UzziLeadership to take this forward.
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Great piece - and great advice for those looking for high return research directions.
21 Aug 2023
How can we accelerate scientific progress?
New piece from @mattsclancy @CorreaDan @jddwor @PaulFNiehaus @calebwatney me in @nature arguing we need more āuse-inspiredā science policy research.
Here are the quick highlightsā¦
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Are ideas are getting harder to find? Join @andreamvaldez, @adamleealter, @dashunwang and I this morning to discuss! Online access to the Atlantic Progress Summit is here:
theatlantic.com/live/progresā¦
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Am delighted to share a new piece in the Atlantic on the theme that āimmigrants create jobsā (1/1)
theatlantic.com/ideas/archivā¦
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The Atlantic piece integrates recent entrepreneurship research (my work with @pierre_azoulay, @jdanielkim, and @jmirandal) and two, great Age of Mass Migration papers from Marco Tabellini and the team of @SMGSequeira, @DrNathanNunn, and Nancy Qian. (3/3)
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Ben Jones retweeted
19 Oct 2022
A š§µ about voting rights, judicial elections, and an informed electorate:
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Chicagoans: If you never know what to do in the ballot box when you get to all those judgesā¦.
26 May 2022
A familiar story for lawyers, law profs, and law students (since youāre treated by your friends and family as an expert from the first day of 1L): injusticewatch.org/interactiā¦
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When you and your collaborator show up wearing exactly the same thing. Ā We must be aligned. Or are we missing a novel perspective?
Thankfully @dashunwang did not wear a scarf
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Here is the latest magazine issue from the
National Center for Women & Information Technology. Lots of discussion around age/ageism in technology and innovation, incl a nice summary of some of my research.
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The U.S. and the world greatly underinvest in R&D.
See āScience and Innovation: The Under-fueled Engine of Prosperity,ā which reviews the stakes, the latest evidence, and the policy opportunity: kellogg.northwestern.edu/facā¦
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Starting soon! Exciting new innovation research is being live streamed at NBER today and tomorrow (12pm-5pm EDT both days).
Program:
nber.org/conferences/si-2021ā¦
Live stream:
urldefense.com/v3/__youtube.ā¦$
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Here is a new JEP piece on the rise of research teams, with messages for economics. The short story is:
#1 Research teams have big benefits. Coauthored papers have increasing impact advantages, and solo-authored work is increasingly rare ā in economics and other fields.
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#4 What can do we do about it? Economics can look to the hard sciences for many lessons. See ideas here:
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12ā¦
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