Stephan Maurer
Economist by day, historian by night. University of Edinburgh, UPF-BSM, and CEP. Author of "Die Schlacht von Gettysburg": amzn.eu/d/epEJdVz
Personal webpage: sites.google.com/site/stephanernstma…
- Education seems to have overtaken technology again
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerThe CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away. Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data. www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
- www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... Sometimes it feels like the US is going through a checklist of all its allies and thinking of how to best alienate them.
- Tie between "Last Christmas" and "All I Want for Christmas is You"
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- The Great Gatsby Result not only holds across and within countries, nowadays and in the past, but, as this paper shows, also within academia.
- Budding scientists inherit career success—or the lack of it—from their #mentors Great Gatsby Curve, which outlines generational wealth, has a corollary in academia, researchers find. #NationalMentoringMonth bit.ly/49usw5P
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerA new WP that uses data from U.S. academic jobs shows that a person's socioeconomic background is an important determinant not just of their career starting point, but of their career progression. Read the WP on the academia class gap by @annastansbury.bsky.social & Kyra Rodriguez. bit.ly/4ab6xRs
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- Großartige Rezension eines großartigen Songs
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerThere is a difference between having the capability/capacity to defend Europe versus having the specific capabilities to execute existing NATO doctrine.
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- Reposted by Stephan MaurerRegistration for the In_equality Conference 2026 is now open! 📅 15–17 April 2026 📍 Bodenseeforum Konstanz & online ❗️On-site registration until 15 March 2026; online participation until 8 April 2026 ➡️ More info and registration: inequality-conference.de @uni-konstanz.de
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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- Reposted by Stephan Maurer📢 Call for papers: CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education co-organized w/ Eric Hanushek (Stanford) 🏛️ 11-12 Sept 2026, Munich 🧑🏫 Keynote: John List (Chicago) @johnlist.bsky.social 👉 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... ⏰ Deadline: 11 May 2026 🖼️ Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...
- Reposted by Stephan Maurer🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerWho cares and has ever cared about the location of a book publisher? How much time have researchers wasted on figuring out this information?
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- Reposted by Stephan MaurerSome perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerIt’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”
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- Reposted by Stephan MaurerTrump will likely try to make Denmark choose between NATO and Greenland, and wider Europe between Greenland and Ukraine. But luckily Trump has also demonstrated that under his leadership, any US security guarantee won’t be worth much. So the choice should be simple.
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerIf you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerDo we get to call the price rises on European goods that Americans now face the Danegeld?
- Reposted by Stephan Maurer4/ Denmark sent around 10,000 troops to Afghanistan, in the context of the one time in history that Article 5 has been invoked. 43 soldiers died, the highest per capita death rate of any member of the coalition. The dishonor of this threat will be a permanent stain.
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerShould the EU retaliate against US tariffs or ignore them? I can see good arguments on both sides. But Europe can and should: continue the military buildup in Greenland; junk the “deal” that rewards bad US behaviour and runs contrary to the MFN principle: & regulate US tech as we see fit
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- Reposted by Stephan MaurerThis map exposes the Greenland lie. The US used to have a massive military footprint here. Today, they operate just ONE base. If Trump were actually worried about Russian vessels, he would simply open more bases, which Denmark allows
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerBREAKING: A full-scale airlift is running around the clock, transporting troops and military equipment to Greenland. The operation is extensive, “beyond anything we’ve tried before,” a source tells DR. Danish F-35 fighter planes and warships from European allies involved. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
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- Reposted by Stephan MaurerIt reminds me a bit of Brexit: we now spend so much time and effort solving a problem that is unnecessary and self-made - while there is an actual war going on on our continent. My thoughts on the Greenland discussion 👇 Full interview www.welt.de/videos/video...
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerThree Greek warships, particularly impressive Background - ancient trireme Olympias (replica, obviously) Middle ground - Kimon class frigate (brand new) Foreground - Pisa class armoured cruiser Georgios Averof (launched 1910, museum ship)
- This is an amazing shot. @dreadships.bsky.social @axe99.bsky.social #navalhistory #maritimehistory Facebook Naval Analysis page.
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerOnly few pieces of furniture from early medieval times have been preserved. Due to the water-logged condition of the area, many wooden objects such as this terrific chair made from maple and ash wood survived in a burial at Trossingen. Dating 580 AD. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺 #archaeology
- Reposted by Stephan Maurerwikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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- Reposted by Stephan MaurerSweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada and France will participate alongside Denmark to expanded military exercises in Greenland. Scoop with @victorjack.bsky.social and Chris Lunday www.politico.eu/article/denm...
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- Reposted by Stephan MaurerSome countries that have prosecuted or threatened to prosecute central bankers for the purpose of political intimidation or punishment for monetary policy decisions: Argentina, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerWhat can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
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- Reposted by Stephan MaurerFuture historians are going to have make up all sorts of complicated and structural reasons to explain the collapse of NATO and the Arctic War of 2026 because the truth is just way too stupid to believe.
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- Reposted by Stephan MaurerMartin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
- Reposted by Stephan MaurerSince Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL. So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research. That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.
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- Reposted by Stephan MaurerWhat is just crazy about this, aside from the need for this statement at all, is that Greenland already IS in the US sphere of influence. It's far cheaper for the US, in material, security, and reputational terms, to have Denmark continue administering Greenland and work within NATO on security.
