Maximilian Kasy

💥 📚 Next step on the book journey:📚💥 "The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)" is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!!! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Are you on the economics job market this year? Consider applying for the Nuffield postdoc at Oxford: econjobmarket.org/positions/11677 It's an excellent opportunity for some extra research time in a great environment! (Econometrics and econ/ML applications particularly encouraged!)

'Coercion, surveillance, or conditionality do not increase the wellbeing of the recipients of benefits.' @OxfordEconDept's Prof Maximilian Kasy on why the political focus should be on creating a truly comprehensive safety net for all, rather than undermining the existing system…

The exponential growth of solar power - some good news for a change: The Sun Has Its Moment newyorker.com/news/annals-of…

New Op-ed: "Welfare for the 21st century" ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07-0… I discuss British welfare reform, what we have learned from #basicincome and #jobguarantee experiments, and argue that we should create a truly comprehensive safety net for all. cc @OxfordEconDept, @INETOxford

📚Reading rec: Learning Theory from First Principles📚 by @BachFrancis: di.ens.fr/~fbach/ltfp_bo… A rigorous review of state-of-the-art machine learning theory, covering both foundations and recent developments. Self-contained - though at times mathematically daunting.

Reading rec: 📖Empire of AI 📖 by @_KarenHao penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/e… Great reportage on the AI industry, from relentless pursuit of scaling, shutting down alternative paths, to the brutality of click-work, to the confluence of cult-like beliefs & big money.

🔥New #basicincome paper just posted:🔥 "Basic income and labor supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany" (maybe not the wittiest title, but descriptive...) maxkasy.github.io/home/files/pap… Feedback welcome, this is still subject to revisions!

Reading rec: “How Life Works” press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book… Fascinating (if dense) survey of modern biology by a former editor of Nature. And a convincing polemic against the genetic reductionism of the “modern synthesis” of Darwinian evolution and Mendelian inheritance, 1/n

In case somebody missed this yesterday, while watching a political car-crash unfold: "The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)" is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Updated my "computational resources" page: maxkasy.github.io/home/computati… Added resources for Python: - Polars for data wrangling & large data sets - Vega-Altair for data visualization - GreatTables for table formatting and exporting - Scikit-Learn for supervised learning