#ECON

bigAL

gr00vyd00b

“We support whatever HE says and we hate whatever THEY say.” Fascist bootlickers.https://twitter.com/jentaub/status/1297695676680343552 And I know people bristle at extreme words like *fascism*, but it’s actually true. I taught Econ

Alex Feinberg (Sustain Gluttony)

alexfeinberg1

All the way to 13KThis 20 month ride has been amazingLiterally every Twitter friend I’ve met in person has been cool@DarwynsTheory@ZachHomol@AshleyHomol@MikeRMedici@EdLatimore@AJA_Cortes@RealBobbyDinoA little thread about me for the new f

Ricardo Reis

R2Rsquared

*** What is automatic about the automatic stabilizers?The discussion on the US extending the extra $600 in unemployment benefits has been couched in terms of automatic stabilizers. But if Congress

Kinley Salmon

kcsalmon

"Even the simplest information is often unavailable. In #Tanzania only about 1 in 8 births is registered; in #Niger only about 3% of deaths are"Me on how scarce #data in

Adam Cooper

draccoops

In response to @NObermeister ever-useful tweets prompting constructive debates in #sciadvice, here's my (provocative??) response to this:1/13 11 reasons why Lawton (2007) is wrong:1. Scientists are, in part to blame:

Siti

siti_twt

New article on youth wages, here’s a TLDR with charts. This is related to stats from the Graduate Tracer Study (GTS), which found majority of grads earned RM1-1.5k in 2020

Lala Rimando

lalarimando

What a time to be a Filipino and journalist. There is an ongoing global crisis of pandemic proportions, but our leaders are more keen to shut critics.Who cares about rising

Alvaro Piaggio

Piaggio_g

In light of all the terrible misinformation going around on Twitter about what's going in Bolivia, here is a summary of what has gone down in the past few weeks

Ash Milton

miltonwrites

Doing some reading on markets and planning. This one was excellent: why Hayek's challenge doesn't lead inevitably to laissez-faire.https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.31.3.215 Hayek made a huge contribution to the study

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

From Red to Green....The yellow and red was very specifically chosen to connote warning, hazard, emergency around the “stay home” message... Red & Green have v different meaning in safety

Aaron Hanlon

AaronRHanlon

1) I'm seeing lots of angry replies to this extremely ill-conceived proposal, and many such replies are some version of 'but what about the faculty??' Nobody cares about the faculty.

Zack Cooper

zackcooperYale

To better advise some policy-makers we’re speaking with, what do we view as the key barriers to scaling up testing and strategies to overcome them. See thread below. Figured public

Rohan Mukherjee

rohan_mukh

[Thread] Had the pleasure of listening to NATO Secretary General @jensstoltenberg deliver a Distinguished Speaker Lecture at @GIGA_Institute, expertly hosted and moderated by @AmritaNarlikar. A brief rundown (and thoughts).https://www.giga-

J.

PresentWitness_

Immigration is a wage suppression scheme.@USTechWorkers https://twitter.com/AriellaHanker/status/1275472589515714560 The STEM worker shortage is a lie. There are 4,300 degree-granting post secondary institutions in the US who churn out over

Stuart Gietel-Basten

stuartbasten

Yesterday, I shared a few thoughts on the *coverage* of the new #GBD future #population estimates.Now, I want to spend some time thinking more about their numbers and how GBD

Anna Gifty is finally on Tik Tok

itsafronomics

It never fails to baffle me how some people are prepared their whole life for the academy, while most of us literally found out about what a PhD was in