#Economics

The Recount

therecount

Obama on @breakfastclubam: "You've seen created, in Republican politics, this sense that white males are victims ... Which obviously doesn't gibe with both history and data and economics ... How

Thomas Viegas

TMRViegas

The global, independent #DasguptaReview on the economics of biodiversity commissioned by @hmtreasury was published today.What does it say? A short thread (1/8) Our economies, livelihoods and well-being all depend on

Will Beaman

agoingaccount

Here are two theoretical insights from heterodox economics that can help the Left make sense of MMT:1. When we do resource analyses with input-output tables, we're talking about FLOWS rather

David Hundeyin

DavidHundeyin

We can outnumber them 10-1 if we like. As long as their relationship with us is defined primarily by aid, migration and pity, we will never be able to look

Robert H Frank

econnaturalist

Thread on introductory economics courses, which leave little lasting imprint on the millions of students who take them each year:@stevenstrogatz @_StefRo @benbernanke @davenuss79 @DanTGilbert @JosephEStiglitz @kaushikcbasu @rodrikdani @RobertJSchille

TOC

OlafCorry

Thread/ 1 One of the risks of game theoretic models of policy dilemmas is translation back to real world. Firstly, model set-ups claim to be 'simplification' of a target system

Tuomas Malinen

mtmalinen

I think that the main problem is that no one has explained to people that downturns and recessions are mandatory.We economists have made a massive disservice by narrowly concentrating on

Lesego Semenya

LesDaChef

All about chocolate. A thread. #LesFoodFacts Let's start at the beginning. Where chocolate comes from and why it is so important to Africa.Originally harvested by the Incas in ancient MesoAmerica

Zelda A. Gabriel

ZeldaAGabriel

TWITTER “MOSTS”:>FUNNIEST:@OrdyPackard (your mom jokes)@aelfred_D (he’s just really funny)@JesseKellyDC >SWEETEST:@PolitiBunny >PICKIEST @Platinumsquire (food and economics ... c’mon dad )>INTELLECTUAL @JoeSilverman7 @TheLaurenChen >AD

Kudzai Mutisi

KMutisi

1. Random acts of charity won't solve the problems of 16 million Zimbabweans.We can't celebrate an outpouring of donations to one hungry child who appeared on a video yet millions

Formal Political Theory Research

FormalTheory

Several journals are now publishing "short" articles, and this forthcoming paper in @The_JOP by Castañeda Dower, Finkel, @sgehlbach, and Nafziger (CFGN) is a great use of the format:https://scottgehlbach.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CFGN-

Miles Howard

MilesPerHoward

Seriously. Who? We have a month.https://twitter.com/LindseyBoylan/status/1276910911220002816 A pattern in America’s pandemic politics that’s getting ugly:HEALTH AND ECONOMICS EXPERTS: We must take these emergency measures, or people wil

David Henig

DavidHenigUK

A good day, given so much news, to recall the experimental nature of Brexit - no developed country has put up trade barriers to neighbours so dramatically since 1945. If

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

Here is Barack Obama’s top regulatory official, a law professor with no background in economics, arguing in the Year of Our Lord 2020 that minimum wage increases are an example

zain

zainpunjwani

As an immigrant to Canada, the chapter on immigration in "Good Economics for Hard Times" fascinated me. Here is what I learned The fraction of migrants in the world population

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin

bethsawin

The older I get the more I appreciate people who have developed the ability to ask, especially in difficult situations, "how am I contributing to this situation?" As a facilitator