Markus' Academy
Princeton University's Markus Brunnermeier hosts conversations with leading academics and policymakers on the global economy, global politics, and artificial intelligence. Subscribe to receive episode summaries and updates.
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The New York Times’ Keynes AI Revival (opens the original)
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We worked with The New York Times to create a 5-minute animated version of our interview with an AI revival of John Maynard Keynes. Last December we shared with you the full interview, which explored his essay Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (1930) and the future of artificial intelligence.Here is the link to the full opinion piece (please leave a comment!). Here is the link to the op
US Treasury Yields (opens the original)
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Bill Dudley and Jonathan Payne joined Markus’ Academy for a two-part conversation on US Treasury yields. Dudley is a Senior Advisor to Princeton’s Griswold Center and a former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Payne is an Assistant Professor at Princeton. The episodes are available on Spotify (Part 1, Part 2), and the slides are available </s
Paper on AI at Jackson Hole (opens the original)
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This year’s Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium focused on financial innovation and its implications for payments and policy. For my session I took the chance to speculate a bit on AI and the future of the financial system. I tried to emphasise that with AI you can outsource your thinking, but not your understanding.Here is the paper and its abstract (and here the slides):Artificial Intelligence and the Brave New World in Finance
AI for Economic Theorists & Mathematicians, a Mini-Series (opens the original)
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Following our mini-series on Claude Code for applied research, Pietro Ortoleva and Fedor Sandomirskiy joined Markus’ Academy for a mini-series on AI and economic theory and mathematicians (a fifth episode will follow). Both are economic theorists at Princeton. Their slides are available here.Episode 1: AI and Theory as a Fixed PointIn the first video P
The Second China Shock - Why Europe is the Front Line (opens the original)
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Today we post the second part of Brad Setser’s talk on the Second China Shock and the Second Coming of Global Imbalances.* Recap of Part 1The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf wrote an insightful piece on Part 1 (available here).<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetc
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