James Feigenbaum
Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University | Economic History, Labor, Inequality
jamesfeigenbaum.github.io
- This x1000
- Capable but error prone research assistant vs oracle sums up the bsky vs X views of Claude Code for social science divergence really well
- Huge win for economic historians who failed to learn cursive in middle school
- TFW you are asked to referee an R&R for which you were supposedly a first round reviewer but you have absolutely no memory of the paper or your report. But one of the reports sure looks like stuff I'd write
- There are only two good uses for former industrial sites in Greater Boston: housing and MBTA infrastructure
- You live to see serious investments into our public transit. This is great! Well done @mbta.com www.dotnews.com/2026/mbta-bu...
- My 5-year-old would kill to live in an MBTA maintenance yard, but I'm not sure how many others would want to combine the two
- cc John Henry's Red Sox post 2018
- I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
- We can't have nice things in Newton, part infinity, because boomer NIMBYs are car-brained and obsessed with parking www.newtonbeacon.org/not-so-fast-...
- tbc Susan Albright is doing the right thing here to charter this (delay it), but the drive to kill this lovely little plaza to save a handful of parking spots in a sea of parking in Newton Centre was supported by 6/8 councilors on the transportation committee
- New answer for when my students ask "how long ago does something have to be before an economic historian can study it?"
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery was released in 1997, about a character frozen in time in 1967. The same movie, released today, would star a character frozen in time in 1996. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd11...
- "Sidewalk incompletely shoveled, not passable for a stroller" usually leads to a warning and then a fix on the Newton 311 app, not sure about Boston or elsewhere
- It's brutal being a parent in this city. The selfishness of home owners who will clean their own property perfectly but not the sidewalk in front of their house properly like their required to do. Strollers don't fit here. Parents are walking in the street with babies. #boston
- New coauthor management system just dropped
