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Jack Meyer 🏛️
@Jackbmeyer
Economist. Researching Institutions, Innovation, Public Goods, and Inequality. MPhil Student, on leave from @OxfordEconDept, MSc @LseEcHist (RT!=E)
Vermont/Oxford
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    Jun 23
    Not quite 20k, but close enough: A short thread explaining the intuition behind my working paper on patent disclosure norms and why inventors in eighteenth-century Britain came to disclose detailed descriptions of their inventions under conditions of selective patent enforcement.
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    Sep 28, 2025
    At 20,000 followers I will reveal a model that explains innovator incentives under incomplete intellectual property rights and demonstrate how legal-institutional arrangements may have contributed to the Industrial Revolution
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    Mar 3, 2025
    Macro professors everywhere are struggling with the reality that most students do not in fact “remember 2008”
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
    @Jackbmeyer
    Sep 11, 2025
    I’m a bit surprised by the number of seemingly sensible people that fell for the ‘change my mind’ pretense of campus political debates and imagine these events as some kind of good-faith forum for engaging with different political views
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    Nov 2, 2025
    >there should be fewer countries >map still includes Belgium
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    zhil
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    Nov 2, 2025
    The world does not need more countries, it needs less
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    Dec 16, 2024
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    Oct 27, 2025
    So... the entry-level job market is BAD bad
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    Aug 10, 2024
    Getting banned from the family Catan game for trying to write resource futures contracts into the house rules
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    Mar 28, 2025
    >Major political figure accused of plagiarism in their thesis >Look at examples of plagiarism >Common technical phrases and definitions Is it bad faith or just a complete lack of familiarity with economic research?
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    National Post
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    Mar 28, 2025
    EXCLUSIVE: Mark Carney faces plagiarism accusations for 1995 Oxford doctoral thesis nationalpost.com/news/mark-carn…
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    Jun 26, 2024
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    Oct 12, 2024
    “Sorry I can’t make it I’ve already got plans” The “plans” in question:
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    May 4, 2024
    Recently discovered evidence that I am planning to do an industrial revolution:
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     Dr. Waitman W. Beorn (waitmanwbeorn.com on 🟦)
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    May 3, 2024
    Oh...oh dear. The NYPD has found...the @OUPAcademic Oxford Very Short Introduction series. I wonder if he thinks the Antisemitism is also a how-to book.
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    Jack Meyer 🏛️
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    paris martineau
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    Oct 14, 2025
    my latest investigation for @ConsumerReports is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day — some by more than 10 times !
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