#Economists

Bes D. Socialist

besf0rt

you're told that what goes on in other countries is none of your concern & you should only care about what's happening inside your borders. ppl still tend to equate

Justin Wolfers

JustinWolfers

Payrolls rose +1.8 million, and the unemployment rate is down from 11.1% to 10.2%.The economy is still in a massive hole, but we're crawling back out. The problem is that

Clint Smith

ClintSmithIII

Just a reminder that the entire bedrock of intergenerational economic prosperity across white america is built on the government having given white people centuries of “free stuff” while purposefully not

Steve Sawyer @🏠

SawyerSteve

I know that I’m not alone in hoping that the terror and turmoil of recent history can be seized upon to launch a new, extended era of prosperity, security and

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zei_squirrel

elon musk hates chomsky because he called out how corporations suck off the state's teet, taking no risk and stealing tech developed by public funding, then make record profits, avoid

Elizabeth Emery

NewLizardBrain

When I was 18, I left Mormonism and became fairly left-leaning in my politics. I moved to Chicago and was surrounded for many years by people who believed the same

Tracy O'Connell Novick

TracyNovick

Hey, so someone noted that I hadn’t shared the latest Polar Park updates! True! Quick catch-up on our local boondoggle that you may have missed what with thousands dying of

Tara Van Ho | #Vote 🇺🇸🇬🇧

TaraVanHo

THREAD: @paul_gertler & his co-authors conducted an experiment in which they threatened to shut off water to people in marginalized slums in Nairobi. Several commentators have raised serious concerns on

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

In discussing control measures, many people think in terms of intratemporal tradeoffs (health vs wealth), while most economists think also about the intertemporal tradeoffs (health AND wealth today vs health

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

Tomorrow the #DasguptaReview is published. Its approach is morally wrong, intellectually vacuous and counter-productive. It represents a catastrophic misstep in our relationship with nature: the penetration of capitalism into every

Jim Tankersley

jimtankersley

Ok friends. It's a Thursday afternoon of a holiday-shortened week, and it's 16 weeks since my household was first told not to come into the office anymore, and now seems

@AdamSmithWorks

adamsmithworks

The great thing about #AdamSmith is that when he's about to go off on a 65 page tangent, he warns you. Humans, we bring you the DIGRESSIONS ON SILVER! #OhLawdHeComin

Jenny Schuetz

jenny_schuetz

Just starting: #AREUEA2021 session on affordable housing. First up, Doug McManus & co-authors look at geographic patterns of housing filtering. Key findings: MSAs vary widely in income filtering rates (income

America-China Watcher

PandemicTruther

The present anti-China hysteria is profoundly racist. The Economist deems it's OK for everyone else to eat meat except the Chinese I'm amazed at the number of anti-China journalists who

Matt Darling 🌐💸🌇

besttrousers

"Audit the Fed" is a remarkably silly bill.https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1080882491043573762 Their audited financial statements are available: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_fedfinancials.htm Their

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

The analogy of a country’s budget being like a household's budget is often used as an argument for austerity measures (suspiciously, only used against social programs, not programs that benefit

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