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Ukraine’s economic crimes bureau remains leaderless amid government interference: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukraines-economic-crimes-bureau-remains.html

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

AI is just another productivity tool and the productivity gains will be limited; for lasting economic expansion, AI must catalyze new industries and initiatives (Carl Benedikt Frey/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/55bc5876-254a-4daa-86f8-2cd0d939a866

AI alone cannot solve the productivity puzzle
Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed

Inequality's Economic and Social Roots: the Role of Social Networks and Homophily
Matthew O. Jackson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13016 https://

Inequality's Economic and Social Roots: the Role of Social Networks and Homophily
I discuss economic and social sources of inequality and elaborate on the role of social networks in inequality, economic immobility, and economic inefficiencies. The lens of social networks clarifies how the entanglement of people's information, opportunities, and behaviors with those of their friends and family leads to persistent differences across communities, resulting in inequality in education, employment, income, health, and wealth. The key role of homophily in separating groups within t…

Green Economic Load Dispatch: A Review and Implementation
Shahbaz Hussain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12062 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Green Economic Load Dispatch: A Review and Implementation
The economic dispatch of generators is a major concern in thermal power plants that governs the share of each generating unit with an objective of minimizing fuel cost by fulfilling load demand. This problem is not as simple as it looks because of system constraints that cannot be neglected practically. Moreover, increased awareness of clean technology imposes another important limit on the emission of pollutants obtained from burning of fossil fuels. Classical optimization methods lack the abi…

Rethinking Competition as a Non-Beneficial Mechanism in Economic Systems
Marcelo S. Tedesco, Gonzalo Marquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11405 https://

Rethinking Competition as a Non-Beneficial Mechanism in Economic Systems
Persistent economic competition is often justified as a mechanism of innovation, efficiency, and welfare maximization. Yet empirical evidence across disciplines reveals that competition systematically generates fragility, inequality, and ecological degradation, emergent outcomes not of isolated failures but of underlying systemic dynamics. This work reconceptualizes economic ecosystems as real complex adaptive systems, structurally isomorphic with biological and social ecosystems. Integrating c…

Every $1 in NIH funding in 2024 generated $2.56 in economic activity (PDF):
https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UMR_NIH-Role-in-Sustaining-US-Economy-FY2024-2025-Update.…

Sources said journalists’ Microsoft accounts were compromised and could have granted the intruder access to work emails they sent and received. The reporters targeted include those on the national security and economic policy teams, including some who write about China.
No paywall.
Cyberattack on Washington Post Strikes Journalists’ Email Accounts

The impact of economic policies on housing prices. Approximations and predictions in the UK, the US, France, and Switzerland from the 1980s to today
Nicolas Houli\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09620

The impact of economic policies on housing prices. Approximations and predictions in the UK, the US, France, and Switzerland from the 1980s to today
I show that house prices can be modeled using machine learning (kNN and tree-bagging) and a small dataset composed of macro-economic factors (MEF), including an inflation metric (CPI), US treasury rates (10-yr), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and portfolio size of central banks (ECB, FED). This set of parameters covers all the parties involved in a transaction (buyer, seller, and financing facility) while ignoring the intrinsic properties of each asset and encompassing local (inflation) and liqu…

"Study Says Clean Energy Rollbacks Will Cost Economy $1.1 Trillion by 2035"
#Energy #Renewables

Study Says Clean Energy Rollbacks Will Cost Economy $1.1 Trillion by 2035 - Inside Climate News
As the Trump administration makes the economic case for the repeal of climate policies, sobering numbers emerge on health and energy costs.

"Comment le boom des milliardaires alimente les inégalités et menace la démocratie."
"Avec une richesse qui se concentre au sommet, l'Europe doit agir maintenant pour défendre la démocratie et la stabilité économique pour tous."
#TaxTheRich #démocratie

Coker: We can’t have economic prosperity or national security without cybersecurity https://therecord.media/coker-interview-no-economic-security-without-cybersecurity

🌮 Corn after soy: New study quantifies rotation benefits and trade-offs
#corn

Corn after soy: New study quantifies rotation benefits and trade-offs
While the majority of Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, commodity prices and corn yield advantages compel some to plant corn year after year. Although foundational research on the benefits of corn-soybean rotation goes back decades, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scientists are working to address remaining holistic questions about crop yield, environmental impacts, and economic returns under various crop rotation scenarios.

A statistical mechanical view of complex economies under the green transition
Filippo Marcuccini, Giacomo Livan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11739 https://…

A statistical mechanical view of complex economies under the green transition
We propose a stylized model of a complex economy to explore the economic tradeoffs imposed by the so called "green transition" -- the shift towards more sustainable production paradigms -- using tools from the Statistical Mechanics of disordered systems. Namely, we promote the parameters of a standard input-output economic model to random variables, in order to characterize the typical statistical properties of its equilibria. A central feature of our work is the explicit inclusion of a waste v…

EconGym: A Scalable AI Testbed with Diverse Economic Tasks
Qirui Mi, Qipeng Yang, Zijun Fan, Wentian Fan, Heyang Ma, Chengdong Ma, Siyu Xia, Bo An, Jun Wang, Haifeng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12110

EconGym: A Scalable AI Testbed with Diverse Economic Tasks
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a powerful tool for economic research, enabling large-scale simulation and policy optimization. However, applying AI effectively requires simulation platforms for scalable training and evaluation-yet existing environments remain limited to simplified, narrowly scoped tasks, falling short of capturing complex economic challenges such as demographic shifts, multi-government coordination, and large-scale agent interactions. To address this gap, we introduce …

PhreshPhish: A Real-World, High-Quality, Large-Scale Phishing Website Dataset and Benchmark
Thomas Dalton, Hemanth Gowda, Girish Rao, Sachin Pargi, Alireza Hadj Khodabakhshi, Joseph Rombs, Stephan Jou, Manish Marwah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10854

PhreshPhish: A Real-World, High-Quality, Large-Scale Phishing Website Dataset and Benchmark
Phishing remains a pervasive and growing threat, inflicting heavy economic and reputational damage. While machine learning has been effective in real-time detection of phishing attacks, progress is hindered by lack of large, high-quality datasets and benchmarks. In addition to poor-quality due to challenges in data collection, existing datasets suffer from leakage and unrealistic base rates, leading to overly optimistic performance results. In this paper, we introduce PhreshPhish, a large-scale…

Russian authorities call for urgent tax increase to save national budget: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/russian-authorities-call-for-urgent.html

But here’s the good news that way too many people are missing:
𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠.
You are not alone in feeling uncertain about your economic future. Millions of people find themselves in a similar position. Traditional careers leave you exposed.
Here is the key: The world has changed. It has moved online – and unless you are moving with it you will be left behind.

“We know from history that authoritarian regimes aim to fracture coalitions and weaken solidarity among groups that, together, represent a formidable force.”
https://newsone.com/5732513/black-radical-project/

Protecting The Black Radical Project: A Call For Courage, Unity And Discipline In 2025
Black people must enforce a disciplined understanding within broader economic, cultural, social and political coalitions, writes Eric Ward.

Urban delineation through the lens of commute networks: Leveraging graph embeddings to distinguish socioeconomic groups in cities
Devashish Khulbe, Stanislav Sobolevsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11057

Urban delineation through the lens of commute networks: Leveraging graph embeddings to distinguish socioeconomic groups in cities
Delineating areas within metropolitan regions stands as an important focus among urban researchers, shedding light on the urban perimeters shaped by evolving population dynamics. Applications to urban science are numerous, from facilitating comparisons between delineated districts and administrative divisions to informing policymakers of the shifting economic and labor landscapes. In this study, we propose using commute networks sourced from the census for the purpose of urban delineation, by m…

Equity Markets Volatility, Regime Dependence and Economic Uncertainty: The Case of Pacific Basin
Bahram Adrangi, Arjun Chatrath, Saman Hatamerad, Kambiz Raffiee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05552

Equity Markets Volatility, Regime Dependence and Economic Uncertainty: The Case of Pacific Basin
This study investigates the relationship between the market volatility of the iShares Asia 50 ETF (AIA) and economic and market sentiment indicators from the United States, China, and globally during periods of economic uncertainty. Specifically, it examines the association between AIA volatility and key indicators such as the US Economic Uncertainty Index (ECU), the US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (EPU), China's Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (EPUCH), the Global Economic Policy Uncerta…

Socioeconomic Impact of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Ingomar Allekotte (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration), Alejandra Calvo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10802

Socioeconomic Impact of the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Observatory has been operating in Malargue, Province of Mendoza, western Argentina, for over two decades, significantly advancing our understanding of cosmic rays. Beyond its scientific mission, the installation and operation of the Observatory has had profound social, economic, educational and cultural impact on the local community, the region and worldwide. More than 90 percent of the Observatory's annual operational budget is invested in the region, benefiting sectors such a…

Head of Trump's economic council circles around questions on 50 percent tariff on Brazil (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/13/kevin-hassett-brazil-tariffs-00450411
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p41#a250713p41

The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year
as Trump’s trade policy disrupts international commerce and increases economic uncertainty,
the World Bank said on Tuesday in a report that underscores the toll of America’s trade war.
Despite the weakening outlook, the global economy is not expected to fall into a recession, the World Bank said.
However, the trade tension is setting the stage for the weakest decade of growth since the 1960s.
Economic dev…

World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War
Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards.

IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY (Andrew Orr/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/07/14/apple-gains-in-emer…

Apple gains in emerging markets while China demand slows
Apple posted a slight gain in global iPhone shipments in Q2, navigating falling demand in China with growth elsewhere.

U.S. Multifamily Market Snapshot — May 2025
Arbor - May 14, 2025
“Examining key benchmarks for the sector, the multifamily market’s consistent performance provides a solid foundation for continued expansion despite broader economic uncertainties, while well-positioned multifamily investors consider new opportunities.”
#ArborRealtyTrust

U.S. Multifamily Market Snapshot — May 2025
The U.S. multifamily market continued to settle into a normalized cycle, despite ongoing uncertainties surrounding the global economy and labor market. There is a rising tide of optimism for the sector ahead and investors are continuing to take advantage of market opportunities.

CFP> Special Issue on The Economics of Buddhism and Jainism: Journal of Economics, Management, and Religion (JEMAR)
https://ift.tt/k3Gr7pu
When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
via Input 4 RELCFP

dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…

FARS: Factor Augmented Regression Scenarios in R
Gian Pietro Bellocca, Ignacio Garr\'on, Vladimir Rodr\'iguez-Caballero, Esther Ruiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10679

FARS: Factor Augmented Regression Scenarios in R
Obtaining realistic scenarios for the distribution of key economic variables is crucial for econometricians, policy-makers, and financial analysts. The FARS package provides a comprehensive framework in R for modeling and designing economic scenarios based on distributions derived from multi-level dynamic factor models (ML-DFMs) and factor-augmented quantile regressions (FA-QRs). The package enables users to: (i) extract global and block-specific factors using a flexible multi-level factor stru…

FPF Launches Major Initiative to Study Economic and Policy Implications of AgeTech
https://fpf.org/press-releases/fpf-launches-major-initiative-to-study-economic-and-policy-implications-of-agetech/

Putin implements emergency measures to avert looming economic crisis in Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/putin-implements-emergency-measures-to.html

With more than 160 people still missing, and approx 130 confirmed dead in #TexasFlood , the economic toll estimates range up to $22bn in costs ...
A UK #Guardian reporter notes just days before the devastating deluge #TedCruz…

Common ownership? Never, so long as society clings to economic monopolies and the machinery of state, true freedom for all remains impossible!
As Rocker argued, only the abolition of all monopolies and the creation of a federation of free communities, where the land and means of production belong to everyone, not privileged minorities, can end exploitation and allow genuine liberty to flourish.
Until then, "common ownership" is just a slogan, not a living reality.

DOGE employees are being booted from offices: As Musk exits, DOGE employees are being booted from offices; many fired staff now being rehired - The Economic Times
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/as-musk-exits-doge-employees-are-being-booted-from-offices-many-fired-staff-now-being-rehired/articleshow/121730883.cms

Would it be fair to call pumping #tariffs a form of Economic Fracking?

Filings: Bengaluru-based fintech Cred, which offers rewards for paying credit card bills and more, raised ~$72M at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.4B in 2022 (The Economic Times)
https://ec…

Cred raises fresh funds from GIC, others; valuation cut by 45% to $3.5 billion
The fintech major was valued at $6.4 billion in 2022 during its last major fund infusion. The current fund infusion is in the form of primary capital, which means that existing investors have not sold any shares in this round. The drop in valuation was in line with the company's plans to list in India over the next two years, people in the know said.

"Comment le boom des milliardaires alimente les inégalités et menace la démocratie."
"Avec une richesse qui se concentre au sommet, l'Europe doit agir maintenant pour défendre la démocratie et la stabilité économique pour tous."
#TaxTheRich #démocratie

dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…

"A new government of austerity and war, in a deteriorating international situation, after 17 years of economic slump and stagnation, unable to confront crises from genocide to climate change to housing shortages and preparing the way for far-right rule, would warrant sustained opposition from the left under any circumstances."
The Times They Are-a-Changin: #Labour is no longer the de…

“The economic New Right is like New Coke—it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and won’t last.”
Opinion | The New Right’s Zombienomics - The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/AZPUdes-PS5aFy92Ru96n3A

Replaced article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
Sustained changes to urban mobility after COVID-19 amplified socio-economic inequalities in Latin...

"So often in the study of religion, we rely on published literary materials. This class is really intended to help students—and to help myself—think about the full social, economic, and political life into which what we call religion emerges. Religion is never absent from those very concrete connections.”
—YDS Prof Nasrallah on the travel seminar to Greece and Türkiye for her course

Trump uses tariff threat to undermine the rule of law in Brazil. For those who still treat Trump tariffs as some kind of economic policy: the US has a trade surplus with Brazil.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/10/trump-

Trump threatens Brazil with 50% tariff, demands Bolsonaro trial ends
Brazil’s prosecutor-general has filed charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.

A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI
Michael I. Jordan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06268 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06268…

A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI
Information technology is in the midst of a revolution in which omnipresent data collection and machine learning are impacting the human world as never before. The word "intelligence" is being used as a North Star for the development of this technology, with human cognition viewed as a baseline. This view neglects the fact that humans are social animals, and that much of our intelligence is social and cultural in origin. A related issue is that the current view treats the social consequences of…

Trump’s newly signed tax and spending law, eviscerated Biden-era incentives for clean technologies such as wind and solar power.
Now Democrats aim to flip the usual partisan energy debate
by portraying Republicans as the party of electricity shortages and rising prices.
Their targets would include the moderate Republicans who spent months urging Congress to preserve the Biden tax breaks because of their projected economic gains for GOP-held districts
— only to fold a…

A five-month investigation found that data centers in Mexico, Chile, South Africa, the Netherlands, and the U.S. overhyped their economic benefits and downplayed environmental damage, especially their water use, even in drought zones.
https://www.themaybe.org/research/data-cen

Where Cloud Meets Cement

CFP> Special Issue on The Economics of Buddhism and Jainism: Journal of Economics, Management, and Religion (JEMAR) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20070691/special-issue-economics-buddhism-and-jainism-journal…

The Trust Fabric: Decentralized Interoperability and Economic Coordination for the Agentic Web
Sree Bhargavi Balija, Rekha Singal, Abhishek Singh, Ramesh Raskar, Erfan Darzi, Raghu Bala, Thomas Hardjono, Ken Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07901

The Trust Fabric: Decentralized Interoperability and Economic Coordination for the Agentic Web
The fragmentation of AI agent ecosystems has created urgent demands for interoperability, trust, and economic coordination that current protocols -- including MCP (Hou et al., 2025), A2A (Habler et al., 2025), ACP (Liu et al., 2025), and Cisco's AGP (Edwards, 2025) -- cannot address at scale. We present the Nanda Unified Architecture, a decentralized framework built around three core innovations: fast DID-based agent discovery through distributed registries, semantic agent cards with verifiable…

Energy Management for Renewable-Colocated Artificial Intelligence Data Centers
Siying Li, Lang Tong, Timothy D. Mount
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08011 http…

Energy Management for Renewable-Colocated Artificial Intelligence Data Centers
We develop an energy management system (EMS) for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers with colocated renewable generation. Under a profit-maximizing framework, the EMS of renewable-colocated data center (RCDC) co-optimizes AI workload scheduling, on-site renewable utilization, and electricity market participation. Within both wholesale and retail market participation models, the economic benefit of the RCDC operation is maximized. Empirical evaluations using real-world traces of electricit…

Reasoning Like an Economist: Post-Training on Economic Problems Induces Strategic Generalization in LLMs
Yufa Zhou, Shaobo Wang, Xingyu Dong, Xiangqi Jin, Yifang Chen, Yue Min, Kexin Yang, Xingzhang Ren, Dayiheng Liu, Linfeng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00577

Reasoning Like an Economist: Post-Training on Economic Problems Induces Strategic Generalization in LLMs
Directly training Large Language Models (LLMs) for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) remains challenging due to intricate reward modeling, dynamic agent interactions, and demanding generalization requirements. This paper explores whether post-training techniques, specifically Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), can effectively $\textit{generalize}$ to multi-agent scenarios. We use economic reasoning as a testbed, leveraging its strong foundations in m…

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

The Netherlands pledges over $300 million for Ukraine's reconstruction, economic strengthening: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/the-netherlands-pledges-over-million.html

Techno-economic analysis of decarbonized backup power systems using scenario-based stochastic optimization
Jonas Schweiger, Ruaridh Macdonald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06736

Techno-economic analysis of decarbonized backup power systems using scenario-based stochastic optimization
In the context of growing concerns about power disruptions, grid reliability and the need for decarbonization, this study evaluates a broad range of clean backup power systems (BPSs) to replace traditional emergency diesel generators. A scenario-based stochastic optimization framework using actual load profiles and outage probabilities is proposed to assess the most promising options from a pool of 27 technologies. This framework allows a comparison of cost-effectiveness and environmental impac…

Anomaly, Class Division, and Decoupling in Wealth Dynamics
Jaeseok Hur, Meesoon Ha, Hawoong Jeong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08175 https://

Anomaly, Class Division, and Decoupling in Wealth Dynamics
Economic inequality is shaped by the agent-network structure, the interaction between agents, and the individual agent's ability. We provide a comprehensive picture of anomalous diffusion, economic class division, and bimodal wealth distribution in an agent-based model, where the allocation of heterogeneous agent abilities/growth rates is tuned in sparse regular networks.In particular, we focus on the statistical characteristics of logarithmic scaled normalized wealth distributions with two abi…

Physics Will Cause the Economy to Shrink; a Look at the Next Ten Years
Our Finite World https://ourfiniteworld.com/2025/05/27/economic-contraction-coming-right-up/

Physics Will Cause the Economy to Shrink; a Look at the Next Ten Years
The world is hitting both energy and debt limits. Modeling and history show the expected results. Governments are particularly hit, as is higher education.

Weather affects economic growth in the short run. In the long run, the effect is insignificant except in a few extreme cases.
https://ideas.repec.org/p/arx/papers/2505.17946.html @…

The Effects of Climate and Weather on Economic Output: Evide
Estimating the effects of climate on economic output is crucial for formulating climate policy, but current empirical findings remain ambiguous. Using annual panel model and panel long-difference mode

Long-term Health and Human Capital Effects of Early-Life Economic Conditions
Ruijun Hou (Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, School of Economics, University of Bristol), Samuel Baker (School of Economics, University of Bristol), Stephanie von Hinke (School of Economics, University of Bristol, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Institute for the Study of Labor), Hans H. Sievertsen (The Danish Center for Social Science Research, VIVE, Institute for the Study of …

Long-term Health and Human Capital Effects of Early-Life Economic Conditions
We study the long-term health and human capital impacts of local economic conditions experienced during the first 1,000 days of life. We combine historical data on monthly unemployment rates in urban England and Wales 1952-1967 with data from the UK Biobank on later-life outcomes. Leveraging variation in unemployment driven by national industry-specific shocks weighted by industry's importance in each area, we find no evidence that small, common fluctuations in local economic conditions during …

President of #EU trade Commission Ursula von der Leyen decried addition of new #DJT #tariff threats for August 1st by stating proposed US policies are to "detriment of businesses, consumers and patients on both sides of the Atlantic."…

EU vows response to Trump's 30% tariff announcement
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc was ready to take all "necessary" steps to safeguard its economic interests, after US President Donald Trump announced that he would impose 30% tariffs on all EU goods.

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

Rather than assuming the war can be ended through a comprehensive battlefield victory or a negotiated compromise,
Ukraine and its allies must plan to build a viable, sovereign, and secure state under constant military pressure.
This reality demands a redefinition of what a successful outcome looks like.
In this context, the objective should not be to defeat Russia outright or expect its regime to end the war because of economic or diplomatic pressure
-- but to syste…

Ukraine’s New Theory of Victory Should be Strategic Neutralization
By ensuring that Russia’s war is operationally pointless, Ukraine can survive, adapt, and achieve success, no matter how prolonged the war.

Enterprise value, economic and policy uncertainties: the case of US air carriers
Bahram Adrangi, Arjun Chatrath, Madhuparna Kolay, Kambiz Raffiee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07766 …

Enterprise value, economic and policy uncertainties: the case of US air carriers
The enterprise value (EV) is a crucial metric in company valuation as it encompasses not only equity but also assets and liabilities, offering a comprehensive measure of total value, especially for companies with diverse capital structures. The relationship between economic uncertainty and firm value is rooted in economic theory, with early studies dating back to Sandmo's work in 1971 and further elaborated upon by John Kenneth Galbraith in 1977. Subsequent significant events have underscored t…

"‘We don’t need a disaster to justify resilience’: Climate projects can bring big economic benefits"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Finance

How climate resilience projects are paying off around the world
The 320 climate projects analysed were found to have potential yields of about €1 trillion in projected returns over a decade.

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 4585 nodes and 4694 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Interesting that some who replied to my post on tax and GDP growth yesterday missed the point.
The point isn't to debate whether tax -> growth (it might, with a tail wind).
The point is that
1) Growth won't happen like it used to.
2) That is good because GDP growth is ecologically and socially lethal.
3) So our leaders (sic) had better adapt to the new reality and use taxation and other measures to build a better, fairer future.
More here:

Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK | Stop the Damage! Build a Better Future!
Britain and the rest of the world face a set of almost intractable challenges, ecological (including climate), economic and social. Yet political leaders with few exceptions are failing to propose the actions and policies that could address the scale of this pancrisis. Here though is an alternative initiative, a kind of alternative manifesto with a portfolio of illustrative policies...

Cost Functions in Economic Complexity
Alessandro Bellina, Paolo Butt\`a, Vito D. P. Servedio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04054 https://

Cost Functions in Economic Complexity
Economic complexity algorithms, including the Economic Complexity Index (ECI) and Non-Homogeneous Economic Fitness and Complexity (NHEFC), have proven effective at capturing the intricate dynamics of economic systems. Here, we present a fundamental reinterpretation of these algorithms by reformulating them as optimization problems that minimize specific cost functions. We show that ECI computation is equivalent to finding eigenvectors of the network's transition matrix by minimizing the quadrat…

Trump's economy remains pretty strong, but some warning signs are flashing (Rachel Lerman/Washington Post)
https://washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/05/trump-policies-economic-growth/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p7#a250706p7

Ukrainian businesses outraged as government blocks economic crimes bureau chief nominee: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/ukrainian-businesses-outraged-as-government.html

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted

Machine Learning for Evolutionary Graph Theory
Guoli Yang, Matteo Cavaliere, Mingtao Zhang, Giovanni Masala, Adam Miles, Mengzhu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08363

Machine Learning for Evolutionary Graph Theory
The stability of communities - whether biological, social, economic, technological or ecological depends on the balance between cooperation and cheating. While cooperation strengthens communities, selfish individuals, or "cheaters," exploit collective benefits without contributing. If cheaters become too prevalent, they can trigger the collapse of cooperation and of the community, often in an abrupt manner. A key challenge is determining whether the risk of such a collapse can be detected in ad…

The Economic Dispatch of Power-to-Gas Systems with Deep Reinforcement Learning:Tackling the Challenge of Delayed Rewards with Long-Term Energy Storage
Manuel Sage, Khalil Al Handawi, Yaoyao Fiona Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06484

The Economic Dispatch of Power-to-Gas Systems with Deep Reinforcement Learning:Tackling the Challenge of Delayed Rewards with Long-Term Energy Storage
Power-to-Gas (P2G) technologies gain recognition for enabling the integration of intermittent renewables, such as wind and solar, into electricity grids. However, determining the most cost-effective operation of these systems is complex due to the volatile nature of renewable energy, electricity prices, and loads. Additionally, P2G systems are less efficient in converting and storing energy compared to battery energy storage systems (BESs), and the benefits of converting electricity into gas ar…

Anthropic launches the Anthropic Economic Futures Program to bolster research on the impacts of AI and encourage new proposals on how to mitigate the downsides (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/27/2025

Anthropic launches new effort to study AI’s economic impact
CEO Dario Amodei has warned of massive job losses because of AI and hopes research will help the world prepare.

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Why is Wall Street brushing off Trump’s escalating tariff threats?
Investors feel free to continue bidding up stock prices because they assume TACO Trump will always back down from his most costly tariff plans, market analysts said.
But Trump views stocks’ steady rise as a license to intensify his trade threats,
acting out the economic policy equivalent of his 2016 quip that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” without paying a price.
His…

Why Wall Street is brushing off Trump’s escalating tariff threats
President Donald Trump’s escalating tariff threats have not deterred Wall Street, with the stock market continuing to rise despite trade policy uncertainty.

"Support for renewables shrinks as fossil fuel interest grows"
#Renewables #FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Support for renewables shrinks as fossil fuel interest grows
Observers blame "culture wars,” while a Republican consultant says messaging for clean energy must emphasize economic, not environmental, benefits.

#DJTs volatile #tariff tantrums are inflicting greater damage than expected, but those caustic cash crisis effects are largely concentrated in the U.S. economy according to analysis by global experts studying matter with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Mfg data in US at lowest numbers since 2009…

America is the biggest loser in Trump's trade war, OECD says
A brutal new forecast shows slowing economic growth. The irony? The U.S. is suffering the most from its own tariff policy

HMD says it will "scale back" US operations, citing "a challenging geopolitical and economic environment", and appears to have stopped US sales of Nokia devices (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/705046/hmd-gl…

HMD is ‘scaling back’ in the US, killing Nokia all over again
HMD Global, which sells its own phones as well as Nokia ones, has stopped selling phones on its US site, and confirms it will ‘scale back’ its US operation.

"OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero

OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly - Carbon Brief
Reaching net-zero will be much cheaper for the UK government than previously expected – and the economic damages of climate change far more severe.

Trump has turned the presidency into a branding machine that fills his coffers with cash.
He has also become the grand dispenser of rent -- deciding by himself which eager rent-seekers receive government benefits and subsidies.
In January 2016, Trump explained why he had been so generous to both parties with campaign donations.
“I’ve got to give to them, because when I want something, I get it. When I call, they kiss my ass,” he said

Trump’s honest graft
The president has turned himself into the central dispenser — and recipient — of economic opportunity.

Analysis: YC picked just four Indian startups in 2024 vs. 66 in 2021, amid a growing trend of startups shifting their parent entities to India for domestic IPOs (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.…

From 66 to 4: Why Y Combinator backed fewer Indian startups in 2024
Y Combinator's selection of Indian startups has decreased significantly. This decline is attributed to factors like YC's US incorporation requirement and the rise of domestic IPOs. Indian startups are shifting focus to local funding options. They find domestic markets favorable for listing. YC is also prioritizing AI-focused startups. This shift impacts Indian participation. Domestic capital is growing with regulatory support.

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

A job-based assessment of economic complexity: from hidden to revealed
Antonio Russo, Pasquale Scaramozzino, Andrea Zaccaria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05846

A job-based assessment of economic complexity: from hidden to revealed
Economic complexity measures aim to quantify the capability content or endowment of industries and territories; however, capabilities are not observable, and therefore cannot be directly used in the computations. We estimate such endowments by quantifying the quality and diversity of the skills in the occupations required in specific industries. We refer to this job-based assessment as the hidden complexity, in contrast with the usual revealed complexity, which is computed from economic outputs…

Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin
on what she called a new
Economic War Plan:
“Defense is simply not enough. We need to offer a different vision and demonstrate an affirmative, positive plan for the country. That's our responsibility and what this moment demands of us.”

Slotkin pitches ‘economic war plan’ for Democrats to play ‘offense’ against Trump | Bridge Michigan
Michigan’s newest US Senator is urging her party to take a new approach to President Donald Trump and refocus on middle class voters.

Unmasking inequility: socio-economic determinants and gender disparities in Maharashtra and India's health outcomes -- Insights from NFHS-5
Sharmishtha Raghuvanshi, Supriya Sanjay Nikam, Manisha Karne, Satyanarayan Kishan Kothe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08206

Unmasking inequility: socio-economic determinants and gender disparities in Maharashtra and India's health outcomes -- Insights from NFHS-5
This research examines the persistent challenge of health inequalities in India, departing from the conventional focus on aggregate improvements in mortality rates. While India has achieved progress in overall health indicators since independence, the distribution of health outcomes remains uneven, a fact starkly highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study investigates the socio-economic determinants of health disparities using the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS)-5 data from 2019-…

dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

Unprecedented wealth concentration
– and the unbridled power that comes with such wealth
– has distorted our democracy and is driving societal and economic tensions.
Musk, the world’s richest man, wields power no one person should have.
He has used this power to elect candidates that will enact policies to protect his interests and he even bought his way into government.
While at the helm of Doge, Musk dramatically reshaped the government in ways that benefit him…

Ukraine synchronizes restrictions on Russia with EU sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/ukraine-synchronizes-restrictions-on-russia.html

Treefera, which uses satellite imagery, drone imagery, and AI to provide real-time insights into supply chains, raised a $30M Series B led by Notion Capital (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/03/treefera-secure…

Treefera secures $20M Series B for AI-driven supply chain resilience solutions
Supply chain resilience startup Treeferachas secured $20 million in its Series B funding round, led by Notion Capital with participation from other investors.  In the face of growing economic uncertainty, a stringent regulatory landscape, and increasing environmental risk, Treefera’s platform utilises satellite imagery, drone imagery, and adaptive AI in order to provide real-time, tailored insights into supply chains.  This is especially significant within the first mile of supply chains,…

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Trump and Republicans in Congress will do their part to damage the American economy, at a moment of fear and instability.
In the broadest terms, their Big Bad Budget bill is an enormous upward transfer of wealth
— perhaps the largest in history
— taking from those with lower incomes and giving to the rich.
And in its details there are dozens if not hundreds of blows to the economy.

The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy
Everywhere you look, it delivers blows to America's economic future.

The gargantuan budget bill Republicans passed through Congress will do its part to damage the American economy, at a moment of fear and instability.
In the broadest terms, the bill is an enormous upward transfer of wealth — perhaps the largest in history — taking from those with lower incomes and giving to the rich. And in its details there are dozens

The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy
Everywhere you look, it delivers blows to America's economic future.

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Trump’s latest letter imposing a 50 percent tariff on Brazil, marks a new departure,
and I think it’s both evil and megalomaniacal.
Trump barely even pretends that there’s an economic justification for this action.
This is all about punishing Brazil for putting Jair Bolsonaro on trial.
Bolsonaro, is Brazil’s previous president, who lost the last election — but tried to stay in power through a coup overturning that election.
Of course that sounds familiar.

Trump's Dictator Protection Program
Using tariffs to fight democracy

digg_votes: Digg story votes (2009)
A bipartite network between users and stories on digg.com from 2009. Each user node connects to all story nodes on which that user voted. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 142962 nodes and 3018197 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Multigraph, Timestamps
https://netwo…

Trump on Monday began to confront the potential economic blowback from his military strikes on Iran,
which threatens to send oil and gas prices soaring at a moment when U.S. consumers are already facing significant financial strains.
The mere prospect of rising energy costs appeared to spook even Trump, who took to social media to push for more domestic drilling
-- while demanding that companies “KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN”; otherwise, they would be “PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS O…

White House Faces Risk of Economic Fallout From Iran Strike
President Trump, aware of how high gas prices could affect his popularity, demanded on social media that the U.S. “KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN.”

“I’ve just seen pictures of my two daughters on a curb in downtown Los Angeles in handcuffs [with] the LAPD,”
Pasadena City Council member Rick Cole said at the rally.
“So I’m going to be figuring out where they are so I can go bail them out.”
Protests against federal immigration raids continued to rage Sunday after Trump ordered the National Guard to Southern California.
Mejia, Cole’s boss, is an outspoken critic of the Los Angeles Police Department.
On Fri…

L.A. City Council aide arrested on assault charge at anti-ICE protest
Luz Aguilar, 26, who serves as City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado’s deputy for economic innovation and community growth, was arrested around 7 p.m. Sunday.

Trump sent the National Guard to Los Angeles at a time when state and local officials said they had protests there under control.

The move reflects an increasingly evident pattern of his presidency:
Trump declares an emergency or crisis where many others do not see one,
enabling him to take sweeping actions,
rally supporters and fight on political terrain he finds favorable.

Trump’s declaration of an economic emergency in April enabled sweeping tariffs.
…

For Trump, seizing emergency powers has become central to governing
President Donald Trump has declared emergencies in various areas. He says strong action is needed; critics say the emergencies don’t exist.

dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 400727 nodes and 3200440 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted