#ECON

Ben Casselman

bencasselman

In his newsletter this morning, @DLeonhardt hits on something I've been thinking a lot about lately: What counts as good (economic) news right now?https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/briefing/how-badly-is-america-doing.html When the May

Kien Lam

MeanMisterKien

Here's my first guide for @TFT Set 4. I'm a 3x Top20 Challenger player and just hit Masters again. This set places a huge emphasis on playing strongest board and

Julian Wettengel

J_Wettengel

Strategy to use #LNG to smooth tensions on trade, #energy & #climate may fail to meet expectationsMy trip to the US yielded some interesting insights into Trump's tit-for-tat deal-making diplomacy,

Ben Casselman

bencasselman

Tomorrow morning, @BEA_News will release its prelim. estimate of second-quarter gross domestic product. Not much drama on the headline: It will show a historic decline in economic output.But the way

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aaronzlewis

Until recently I had no idea that game engines are basically eating the world. Urban planning, architecture, automotive engineering firms, live music and events, filmmaking, etc. have all shifted a

Quarantine Hosh

has_hosh

Since Covid-19 crisis picked up in Pakistan, have been seeing a concerted effort by the media to continue & cause confusion about the pronouncement by the Federal govt and PTI

Aaron Staples

microBREWecon

I find this 'local food systems vs. high degree of specialization and globalization' debate absolutely fascinating right now. Particularly because I can see both sides of the argument. Here are

Timothy E Kaldas

tekaldas

Despite how rudely these points are made I think they're worth responding to as Mr. "MegaMind" references a popular view that need to be critically unpacked. Throughout his responses he

Pedro L. Gonzalez

emeriticus

This study illuminates something that even the researchers won't explicitly acknowledge, nor will the GOP: Latinos increasingly see themselves as white-adjacent, which means, among other things, that the law and

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

Working on a general theory of extractivism & enclosure right now—just made a smol outline. Linking the Marxian theory of Imperialism & Primitive Accumulation to Enclosure to Environmental Racism to

Kevin Chen

jiafengchen42

I want to open a discussion about this post by Gelman (@StatModeling) and various aspects of RDD inference. Gelman criticizes a paper that shows a close-election victory effect of 2-10

Rory Tierney

rorymtierney

Some thoughts on Covid-19 and health econ. We know that policy choices about the lockdown involve weighing up the economic and social cost against the health benefits. So how do

Edward Wong

ewong

Republican politicians push anti-China rhetoric to try to win votes in Nov. These politicians know nothing about China. They back xenophobic, anti-immigrant policies. And they’re covering for Trump’s failures on

Paul Musgrave

profmusgrave

1 like, 1 opinion about college teaching and learning, until I get bored 1. Professors can be more rigorous in teaching review and evaluation 2. Student evals are more like

Abhi 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 | akantamn@uoguelph.ca

akantamn

Millions of families put their lives and livelihoods on hold to buy time for those in a position of authority, yet months later are we any closer to solving

Mohammad Akbarpour

akbarpour_

A coauthored thread: A lot has been said about the #NobelPrize2020 of Milgrom & Wilson, but @ShengwuLi and I would like to say a bit more. As two of Paul’s