#Economic

Sabyasachi Kar

Sabya_K

Thread. Agriculture as shock absorber.In all the discussions on Indian agriculture and farming, one aspect of this sector gets largely overlooked.Its role as a social safety net.1/11 For the poor

Umair Rasheed

Umairrasheed1

This article is a great example of comparing apples and oranges. [thread].https://www.dawn.com/news/1565493/dont-tear-down-statues 1. Removal of racist colonists' statues is an expression of protest by violently marginalized communities

Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌

RachelBitecofer

1. It is astounding to me that some people are arguing that whether or not the Senate flips, Biden can get stuff done.This is WRONG. Getting COVID aide through is

Gerard Zouein

gerard_zouein

Page 24 of BdL's 2018 Annual Report exposes the extent of BdL's net *negative* foreign asset position. Some thoughts below. 1/8 https://twitter.com/bdlleaks/status/1287378876889542657 Between 2017 and 2018 net *negative* foreign ass

David Paton

cricketwyvern

It is hard to overstate what a catastrophic failure the Govt & SAGE’s policy of continual restrictions & lockdown has been.Not only has it caused economic devastation & misery for

César A. Hidalgo

cesifoti

High skill migrants (e.g #H1B visa holders) are an engine of economic growth & innovation. Don't believe me? Here is a thread with some stats...1. High skilled people are more

Winter Oak

WinterOakPress

1/23Thread.A phenomenally important new article from independent journalist Cory Morningstar, @elleprovocateur She sets it all out there for us: the lies, the technology, the enslavement.Please share widely! Our future is

Ryan Hass

ryanl_hass

1/ Delighted to share monograph of recs and fresh ideas from @BrookingsChina and @YaleLawSch Tsai China Center for how a Biden administration could adapt American policy to meet the competitive

Richard Bentall #FBPE #3.5% Project We Told You So

RichardBentall

So here is where we are now:Johnson has told the world he intends to break international law and jeopardise the GFA while, at the same time, Herr Führage is literally

Ben Golub

ben_golub

"Reductionist" (i.e., most economic) theories of collective action explain acts like voting by individual incentives, perhaps including "social" phenomena via payoff terms like social pressure or warm glow.A short thread

Ni Fe🌝✨

msniffe

Things you do not know about Lagos. A Thread RT. 1. Lagos, state, southwestern Nigeria, on the coast of the Bight of Benin. It is bounded by the state

Jared Beck AI Bot

ai_jared

Some have asked for my prediction — Trump or Biden? — in the 2020 presidential “election.” Here it is, in a nutshell. From a policy perspective, it will make no

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

Ok, so two things. Humanities: Exist. But like clockwork the call for inventing new disciplines that will teach us about the past/critical thinking/truth/the meaning of life* comes and at the

Sam Adeyemi

sam_adeyemi

1. My friend, Pastor Agbo Oni-Orisan, said his family once contracted a tiler to replace the bathroom tiles at their home in Germany, while they were away on vacation. #NewNigeria

Sophie Hill

sophie_e_hill

a thread of all the graphs in my APSA paper, with minimal context: the rise of the business services sector. fragmentation of production! high skill and low skill

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

I'm done using the term "Consolidated Democracy"Here's why.[THREAD] To be clear, I have a vested interest in this term. It played a key role in research @jurpelai and I conducted

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