Zingales ✓

@zingales · joined 20 Sep 2008

Economist at the Chicago Booth School of Business - Co-host of the podcast Capitalisn't. Per i followers italiani: @zingales_it

29 071Followers

270Following

2 466Posts total

241.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Zingales ✓@zingales29 Aug

How can you tell apart an Italian from a Spaniard? But how much they move their hands when they talk :) 5.2K views · 34 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Zingales ✓@zingales28 Aug

@zingales @lugaricano You guys should first do something about cronyism in Econ job market. 150 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Zingales ✓@zingales28 Aug

I sat down with Luigi Zingales and Bethany McLean on @capitalisnt to discuss "Messy Jobs: The Work That AI Cannot Reach". We had a feisty (and fun!) debate on how to avoid a jump in inequality, Coasean transaction costs, neo-feudal data monopolies, and whether messiness is 27.3K views · 92 likes · 23 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Zingales ✓@zingales28 Aug

@zingales @lugaricano This has already happened 181 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Zingales ✓@zingales28 Aug

@zingales @lugaricano That's what has happened irl, it's all about people with networks and contacts now, after trust funds this is the next most important thing today 121 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Zingales ✓@zingales27 Aug

If credentials lose their signaling value to AI-generated resumes, we will revert to a world where personal connections dictate who gets hired. That isn't competitive capitalism, it’s cronyism. We discuss this future and how to get out of it with @lugaricano, author of “Messy ht 30.4K views · 67 likes · 17 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Zingales ✓@zingales23 Aug

@zingales Very extreme pushback against a very mild article. Have you considered that weak critiques are not like targeted executions? 1.3K views · 41 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Zingales ✓@zingales23 Aug

@zingales oh come on 876 views · 43 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Zingales ✓@zingales23 Aug

@zingales Jesus Christ. If you are going to write fiction, it needs to be entertaining. 1.2K views · 24 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Zingales ✓@zingales22 Aug

Everybody has heard of the Luddites, but few know Sir Thomas Maitland, the man who defeated them. Rather than using brute force to take them all out, Maitland simply identified the men he took to be ringleaders, had them arrested on evidence that was often thin, and executed 157.1K views · 565 likes · 168 reposts · 30 replies Open on X →

Zingales ✓@zingales16 Aug

Randy Picker, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the Chicago Law School, passed away suddenly last night. It is an enormous loss. He was a true scholar and a real gentleman. Read below the tribute from one of his many students https://t.co/78EIFj725x 4.6K views · 32 likes · 9 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Zingales ✓@zingales13 Aug

If AI lets every nurse do a doctor's work, will the nurse get a raise or the doctor a wage reduction? In our latest Capitalisn’t podcast, @Bethanymac12 and I discuss with Nobel economist @DAcemogluMITabout the impact AI will have on wages and jobs. Listen to this clip from the 12.7K views · 126 likes · 23 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views2 948this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %10.14%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.18%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 948	924	3.19×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	10.14%	3.62%	2.80×
Engagement rate	1.18%	1.52%	0.78×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

12.7K13 Aug

4.6K16 Aug

157.1K22 Aug

1.2K23 Aug

876

1.3K

30.4K27 Aug

12128 Aug

181

27.3K

150

5.2K29 Aug

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.26%13 Aug

0.91%16 Aug

0.51%22 Aug

2.01%23 Aug

4.91%

3.23%

0.31%27 Aug

1.65%28 Aug

1.10%

0.45%

2.00%

0.72%29 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes58.7%1 030 in total

Reposts13.8%242 in total

Replies3.0%52 in total

Quotes2.6%45 in total

Bookmarks22.0%387 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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Frequently asked questions about @zingales

How many followers does @zingales have?

29 071 followers.

How many posts has @zingales published?

2 466 posts.

How do posts by @zingales perform?

Collected posts: 12. Views: 241 156. Likes: 1 030.