Gabriel Unger @_gabrielunger

macroeconomist, postdoc @Stanford @StanfordHAI @DigEconLab, phd @harvardecon Palo Alto Joined October 2018

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Gabriel Unger @_gabrielunger

2 years ago

In econ "secular" means long-term. In normal English means non-religious. TIL: same Latin origin, saecularis: "of a generation, belonging to an age". Why? Econ view: of an age, so long time. Medieval Christian view: of an age, so short, this temporal world, not the spiritual one.

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Gabriel Unger @_gabrielunger

2 years ago

this is a really cool talk of a kind that should be done more across different fields in econ. very easy to get stuck in a given paradigm/class of workhorse models. important to be able to really step back and wonder what might be missing, what other directions one might take.

Pol Antras @pol_antras

2 years ago

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Gabriel Unger @_gabrielunger

2 years ago

And see also @DAcemogluMIT @baselinescene article in same issue imf.org/en/Publication… arguing similar point. AI can develop in different directions, w/ different implications for labor, capital, inequality, concentration. Overlooked in much of the current "alignment" discourse.

Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn

2 years ago

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Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn

2 years ago

For ChatGPT's anniversary, @_gabrielunger and I discuss how AI is creating three big challenges for macroeconomics in the lead article of the @IMFNews F&D magazine. imf.org/en/Publication…

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Gabriel Unger @_gabrielunger

4 years ago

Yea. For those curious, Steve Berry has a really nice 2017 FTC talk which includes a frank discussion of S-C-P and why it shouldn't be resurrected: ftc.gov/system/files/d… .

Chris Conlon @conlon_chris

4 years ago

Yea. For those curious, Steve Berry has a really nice 2017 FTC talk which includes a frank discussion of S-C-P and why it shouldn't be resurrected: ftc.gov/system/files/d… .

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Gabriel Unger @_gabrielunger

4 years ago

Belatedly publicly sharing this short note about my advisor, Emmanuel Farhi. (I wrote it two days after his death, then kept it largely to myself). Hard to believe it's been over a year now; he is still sorely missed. tinyurl.com/efarhi

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Gabriel Unger @_gabrielunger

4 years ago

The global productivity slowdown is one of the most under-reported and under-discussed economic stories of the past decade relative to its importance.

Richard Baldwin @BaldwinRE

4 years ago

The global productivity slowdown is one of the most under-reported and under-discussed economic stories of the past decade relative to its importance.

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Gabriel Unger @_gabrielunger

5 years ago

this, but feels like there are lessons here we haven't grappled with yet. this stuff involved (1) complex public-private partnerships, (2) huge scale + risky R&D projects. both (1) + (2) are very different from normal corporate innovation. if we return to latter after, then what?

Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn

5 years ago

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Richard H Thaler @R_Thaler

5 years ago

Walter Oi was one of my professors. Early in grad school he was at a workshop with his dog Jeanie. The talk was way over my head. Equations filled the black board. Deep in, Walter raises his hand and says, pointing to his left, “that equation is wrong.” Correct!

Gabriel Unger @_gabrielunger

5 years ago

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Gabriel Unger @_gabrielunger

5 years ago

Yesterday was Walter Oi's b-day. Son of immigrants, spent WWII a kid in a Japanese internment camp in Colorado, was totally blind by the time he finished PhD, and despite all of this, spent life doing deep, big picture work at intersection of labor and IO. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

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Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan

6 years ago

I am not making a comparison. But it may be useful for young people. It was Proust who said it in "La recherche": he built this timeless work out of his wasted years, years of triviality and nothingness.