#Economics

In case people are wondering, I am currently working through this latest pod, and folks, you don't want to multitask. This episode is dethroning a lot of stuff that a
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The Packers probably didn't increase their chances of winning next year's Super Bowl tonight, but they bought a lottery ticket that – IF it hits – will mean 10-15 more
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I have a new column out today with Taryn Morrissey from @AmericanU laying out the likely long-term consequences of the developing child care crisis. Without child care, many more Millennial
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At age 11 New Zealander bill Phillips repaired an old bus and drove it to school with a few other peasant kids like him. At 15 he left school and
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A toilet paper article even @oliverbeige will like. The issue is supply chains. TP for the home is produced and sourced differently than TP for office and school. 1/https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortag
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THREAD: article about how a CEO “had” to shut down her business because unemployed husband couldn’t watch kids for 3 days...successful clickbait has gaslit most Women on the continent. Rather
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It bothers me when abolitionists I respect say things like "There's no evidence police make anyone safer."There are decent papers using reasonable causal inference methods that find police deter crimes
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Why did chloroplasts and mitochondria transfer almost all their essential genes to the nucleus? I think economics had a part to play. TL;DR It is cheaper for the cell to
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I am so pleased to have had a chat with David this afternoon to talk about some of the challenges facing women in sport. For one of the very few
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This thread will go through all Israel Nobel laureates we start withShmuel Yosef Agnon Nobel Prize laureate in literature 1966"for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life
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Slavery was SO MUCH worse than people imagine.I wrote my dissertation on slavery and it is incredibly traumatizing. In grad school I had to dramatically shift my entertainment habits to
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Police to kill more blacks than whites percentage-wise. However, blacks are also far more likely to get into confrontations with Police, so that increases the risk of escalation. I don't
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NEW: As Boris Johnson begins what his team thinks will be a month-long road to recovery from the coronavirus, ministers warn his government faces mounting problems on the political, health
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I don't know who needs to hear this but JUSTFollowing guidelines  ≠ EBM .Let's talk about practice and Evidence based Medicine #IndianMedTwitterIndia is a place where community practice largely depends
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I notice on this platform there are people who think discussing economics is incompatible with discussing life/death, as in a human life shouldn't have a dollar value. I'm sorry to
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(1/10) There’s a lot of focus on high-level financial metrics in SaaS right nowI want to zoom in on the unit economics and the go-to-market strategy that I look for
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