Mastodawn

Insightful interview on Iran on the eve of the recent invasion:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/ervand-abrahamian-iran-under-fire

Ervand Abrahamian, Iran Under Fire, NLR 157, January–February 2026

One of modern Iran’s leading historians provides a critical anatomy of the power structures of the Islamic Republic, on the eve of war—and a scathing denunciation of the long-incubated American-Israeli assault on the country, calculated to bring about Syria-style disintegration and civil war.

New Left Review

Maximilian Kasy 4d ago

Maximilian Kasy 6d ago

🚨 New working paper (with @elizabethlinos and @ProfSanaz) 🚨
"Causal Inference for Social Network Formation"

A design-based framework for indentification and inference on the causal mechanisms behind tie formation, applied to 6,042 new hires randomly assigned to project teams at a global firm.
Indirect ties have a robust, large effect!

https://maxkasy.github.io/home/files/papers/network_formation.pdf

Maximilian Kasy 5d ago

Insightful interview on Iran on the eve of the recent invasion:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/ervand-abrahamian-iran-under-fire

Ervand Abrahamian, Iran Under Fire, NLR 157, January–February 2026

One of modern Iran’s leading historians provides a critical anatomy of the power structures of the Islamic Republic, on the eve of war—and a scathing denunciation of the long-incubated American-Israeli assault on the country, calculated to bring about Syria-style disintegration and civil war.

New Left Review

Maximilian Kasy 6d ago

🚨 New working paper (with @elizabethlinos and @ProfSanaz) 🚨
"Causal Inference for Social Network Formation"

A design-based framework for indentification and inference on the causal mechanisms behind tie formation, applied to 6,042 new hires randomly assigned to project teams at a global firm.
Indirect ties have a robust, large effect!

https://maxkasy.github.io/home/files/papers/network_formation.pdf

Maximilian Kasy Apr 22

Barry Eichengreen kindly reviewed "The Means of Prediction" in Foreign Affairs (May/June 2026) — "a clear and concise explanation of how AI works":

🔗 https://foreignaffairs.com/reviews/means-prediction-how-ai-really-works-and-who-benefits

Maximilian Kasy Mar 31

"Cancel-culture" in action:
This paper argues that the US governments' blacklisting of research on topics including gender, race, and the environment (for funding) has led to pre-emptive self-censorship in economics working papers.
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-05519411/file/WP_2026-06_.pdf

Maximilian Kasy Mar 30

💲💲💲 New version available: 💲💲💲

Basic income and labor supply: Theory and evidence from an RCT in Germany

https://maxkasy.github.io/home/files/papers/basic_income_econ.pdf

#basicincome #ubi