Ben Waber6d ago
It was refreshing to see people exercising their First Amendment rights today, and later I was able to catch a glimpse of some of the less politically active but still stunning local water fowl while listening to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/4)
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First was the National Bureau of Economic Research economics of race and stratification symposium. I particularly liked the talks by Illenin Kondo (dynamic racial wealth inequality accounting), Marlène Koffi (race, networks, and the diffusion of knowledge), and Lukas Althoff (GI Bill racial inequality effects) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j5VG4eZet8 (2/4) #economics
Economics of Race and Stratification

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Next was "Japan's Transwar Political Economy" by Andrew Gordon, who links this period with later Japanese labor developments https://agordon.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum8001/files/agordon/files/gordon_transwar_political_economy_chkv3_proofs.pdf (3/4) #history #Japan #unions
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Last was "Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind" by Peter Godfrey-Smith, who provides a compelling journey through the development of cognition, but this time with a wider aperture. Godfrey-Smith advances a compelling hypothesis around both the gradual emergence of cognition and for the inherently gradient-based nature of that phenomenon. Highly recommend

Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/10545912/s/a-provocative-manifesto-on-a-cognition-gradient#anchor-10545912 (4/4) #CognitiveScience #biology

Ben Waber's review of Metazoa - BookWyrm

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