#Economic

Malcolm Urdustani

Malcolm_Returns

There is a tendency among Hindu propogandists to brand Sultan Tipu Saheb as a “tyrant” and responsible for “forcible conversions”. Similarly, they term "Malabar Revolution" as a riot & spread

Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik

CRostvik

This year, the 'tampon-tax' ended in the UK. But this is not the first time Conservatives have been interested in menstrual products. Here's PM Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, with

Alan

akgerber

the key urban planning tradeoffs:—everybody wants to live a 15 to 30-minute commute away from a ton of great jobs—everybody wants a big home—everybody wants a fast private climate-controlled vehicle

All Possums Go to Heaven

AndyinDC1

A claim I see often is: capitalism is great because of all this *stuff* we have. The poorest person in capitalism lives materially better than kings and emperors did. Isn’t

Roshan Kishore

Roshanjnu

Landed in Delhi after a #VandeBharatMission flight from Dulles, Washington today. Some thoughts & observations. No passengers, no flights (security takes a minute at most) and no shops. Airports have

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Decolonization and Growth: A brief thread.Let's see how some large post-colonial nations are doing economically, compared to their former colonizers, since the 1960s. 2/First, Indonesia vs. Netherlands.Indonesia is still at

Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean BA Soc

Mitchell_AB

Big news: #NoToCoalAB “Albertans have spoken loud and clear and we have heard them. Not only we will reinstate the full 1976 coal policy, we will implement further protections and

Lawrence H. Summers

LHSummers

I spoke via Zoom last night at the Beijing Forum 2020: COVID-19 Shock to Global Health and Development. I retold the story of Reagan and Gorbachev and their private walk

eugyppius

eugyppius1

1. Since this thread took off, I’ve read a lot of pro-lockdown content. These are huge twitter networks, dominated by people claiming to be academics, doctors. Their ideas and statements

Jukka Rintamäki

Jugistoteles

What are some of your favorite texts (books, chapters, journal/newspaper/magazine/etc. articles) on corporate wrongdoing?Personally, I find Don Palmer's book Normal Organizational Wrongdoing the best source I've come across. I'l

Jawwad Farid

rebootdude

1/ Unit economic for founders thread.Despite being a founder and a student of the subject, I missed out on a key point growing up.Length of relationship with your customers, order

Raoul Pal

RaoulGMI

At the beginning of December I wrote about the economic impacts of potential covid restrictions over Christmas/New Year in Europe... The UK is suffering the full brunt of this...https://www.ft.com/content/3484bb65-e394-49ab-a23b-6e9001d79ba

Liam Young

liamyoung

The Tories can't privatise the NHS in one swoop. Their plan has always been to execute a series of well planned attacks on our public health service. The Covid-19 crisis

Cllr Jon Burke

jonburkeUK

1/ Despite various bouts of bubonic plague ravaging The Pale (the area around Dublin) and various other towns under the control on the English crown throughout the 1300s - some

Carl Henrik Knutsen

carlhknutsen

Weberian bureaucracy does not systematically enhance growth! At least, the evidence is not sufficiently clear to conclude on a relationship. This is the main finding of my paper with Agnes

Ritu Bhandari

RituNMRK

Reading the budget for intent and not just for the measures that it talks about, this is a reformist budget, in context of the structural reforms already undertaken by the

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