{"slug": "monday-assorted-links", "title": "Monday assorted links", "summary": "Economist Thomas Piketty has reportedly aligned with degrowth ideology, according to social media posts, while other commentators suggest prominent economists hold a negative understanding of economic systems. The claims, shared via X posts, have sparked debate about the direction of mainstream economic thought.", "body_md": "# Monday assorted links\n\n1. [It seems Piketty has become a degrowther](https://x.com/pikettywil/status/2062413196967784652?s=61). And [other views](https://x.com/lugaricano/status/2062948364283785527). Maybe it is rude to say this, but some of our best-known economists basically have a *negative-valued* understanding of how the world works. And [a bit more](https://x.com/DoubleEph/status/2063925479678116183).\n\n2. [Claims about soil](https://x.com/idyllicmusing/status/2062994923801243845?s=46) (speculative). Here is [GPT Pro analysis](https://chatgpt.com/share/6a2393ed-6d48-83ea-b244-6fed130ecf71).\n\n3. [Stepping up](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/01/audience-member-replaces-ill-keyboardist-sydney-la-land-justin-hurwitz).\n\n4. [An interactive feature for AI and economic growth](https://howfastis.ai/).\n\n5. [The strange allure of the single-sentence novel](https://www.totei.com/story/single-sentence-novel-daniel-kraus-jon-fosse). From [Totei](https://www.totei.com/).\n\n6. [Where is the Indian diaspora population?](https://x.com/stats_feed/status/2063526120486543802)\n\n7. [The Pope in Spain cites Salamanca and liberty](https://x.com/nunezfeijoo/status/2063931121486766121?s=46).\n\n8. “[We’re hiring two Research Fellows to study the future of scientific discovery.](https://x.com/mercatus/status/2063971055387934780)“", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/monday-assorted-links", "canonical_source": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/06/monday-assorted-links-563.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=monday-assorted-links-563", "published_at": "2026-06-08 16:43:05+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-11 17:36:36.327149+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-tools", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Piketty", "GPT Pro", "Justin Hurwitz", "Mercatus"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/monday-assorted-links", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/monday-assorted-links.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/monday-assorted-links.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/monday-assorted-links.jsonld"}}