Yeah, I agree that there would be significant benefits to trying to set up another academic research institute at a university more focused on economics.
The idea of “academic institutes set up by EAs in disciplines such as psychology and history” also sounds potentially exciting to me. And I wrote some semi-relevant thoughts in the post Some history topics it might be very valuable to investigate (and other posts tagged History may be relevant too).
Definitely agree with this, as someone currently at UChicago! The Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change (RISC) recently put out a call for animal welfare proposals and Steve Levitt has connections to Schmidt Futures (an EA-adjacent philanthropic initiative), so that could be a promising place to start.
Yeah, I agree that there would be significant benefits to trying to set up another academic research institute at a university more focused on economics.
Same here.
The idea of “academic institutes set up by EAs in disciplines such as psychology and history” also sounds potentially exciting to me. And I wrote some semi-relevant thoughts in the post Some history topics it might be very valuable to investigate (and other posts tagged History may be relevant too).
Agreed. The University of Chicago — with its Becker Friedman Institute, Center for Decision Research, broad EA community, and generous economics funders — could be a promising option.
Definitely agree with this, as someone currently at UChicago! The Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change (RISC) recently put out a call for animal welfare proposals and Steve Levitt has connections to Schmidt Futures (an EA-adjacent philanthropic initiative), so that could be a promising place to start.
Thank you for sharing! I hadn’t looked deeply into RISC’s work before — and very helpful to know about Levitt’s ties to Schmidt Futures.