Associate Professor @ University of Greenland (Ilisimatusarfik) | Economics PhD | Focus on the Arctic & emerging world ๐ฌ๐ฑ๐บ๏ธ | All views are mine
Greenland, Europe & America
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javier arnaut ๐ retweeted
Of course, people say, "this is because of China". Sure, but you live in a global world. If China drives world GDPpc up. you have to try to match it. If you fail you lose.
Like in the past too, when China could not keep up with the Europeans and they brought it to an almost colonial status.
In other words, one's economic failure cannot be blamed on China.
Flunk. They threatened Greenland & Denmark for months to obtain what the 1951 defence agreement already gave the US. Now theyโve repackaged the very old agreement as a โhistoric victory.โ Cheap propaganda. They now have access they already had. Trump conquered the status quo.
This historic deal is a huge win for the United States and the American people. Thanks to President Trumpโs vision and leadership, this historic agreement permanently guarantees U.S. security interests in the Arctic at zero cost to the U.S. taxpayer.
Greenland will forever be part of the strategic defense area of North America and exclude any adversary from it and the surrounding area.
This deal permanently and completely addresses our national security concerns in Greenland.
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The most terrifying thread youโve ever read
Jeffrey Williamson at the Southern Cone Economic History Summer School (2010) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Asado & drinks with students and Luis Bรฉrtola. Great memories! RIP Jeff ๐ชฆ
Jeffโs work was a source of inspiration for me and many students of Lat American Econ History. He was the one bringing intellectual energy and sense of humor at international conferences. I feel fortunate to have crossed paths with him. He will be deeply missed.
Goodbye to one of the greats, my advisor Jeff Williamson (1935โ2026)
Jeff your unstoppable intellect & excitement were contagious. I owe everything I have to your rare faith in me.
From the many like me: Our deepest and forever thanks. Your work & your self will be remembered.
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javier arnaut ๐ retweeted
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javier arnaut ๐ retweeted
๐จ Due to high demand, I created a new (and much improved) version of the Econ Journal Matchmaker.
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javier arnaut ๐ retweeted
The demonstration against the USA has now begun and is on its way to the American consulate in Nuuk, Greenland.
May 21, 2026
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"Don't let other people write your paper."
Economic sciences laureate Daron Acemoglu spoke to nine students around the world and shared his best career advice.
Watch the full conversation: youtu.be/K3_B4CyGpdo?si=6b8qโฆ
javier arnaut ๐ retweeted
Researchers who wanted to get started on Claude Code, but were intimidated to so.
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javier arnaut ๐ retweeted
> be Alexandra Elbakyan
> be born in Kazakhstan in 1988
> start coding at 12
> hack your internet provider at 14
> hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford
> get a CS degree from Satbayev University
> intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech
> speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces
> notice researchers can't read the papers they need
> notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper
> notice peer reviewers worked for free
> notice editors worked for free
> notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money
> build Sci-Hub in 2011
> upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published
> give it away for free
> get sued by Elsevier
> get hit with a $15 million judgment
> don't give a flying f*ck
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get domain after domain seized
> register a new one
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get investigated by the US Department of Justice
> don't give a flying f*ck
> get accused of working for Russian intelligence
> don't give a flying f*ck
> have the FBI subpoena your iCloud
> get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science
> get a parasitoid wasp named after you
> get a deep-sea snail named after you
> get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge
> become a legend
ALT Alexandra Elbakyan, the founder of Sci-Hub
javier arnaut ๐ retweeted
Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available
And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot.
It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles.
But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.
I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.
javier arnaut ๐ retweeted
Ha-Joon Chang compares mainstream economics to Catholicism in the Middle Ages.
โEconomics today resembles Catholic theology in medieval Europe: a rigid doctrine guarded by a modern priesthood who claim to possess the sole truth. Dissenters are shunned.โ
javier arnaut ๐ retweeted
The QJE should investigate this matter, and possibly retract the VV (2012) paper.
Let me be clear: Voth's "responses" here in X are designed to mislead.
What Joe released today had the errors corrected and, unlike Voth claims, the VV results do not survive
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Trump murdered Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president of Iran, who - whatever you think of him - was a civilian, not in the military, and so it was murder, plain and simple. As illegal and as murderous as Iran bombing and killing, say, George W Bush at his home in Dallas.
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For the record, Germany is obligated by international law to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Greenland has a universal healthcare system provided by Denmark, offering free care including hospitals, GPs, and prescriptions. However, remote geography and staffing shortages pose challenges, often requiring patient transfers to Denmark for specialized treatment. Recent investments aim to address these issues.