#Economist

Girum®🇪🇹

GirumTweets

Lesson from Korea: the economist Ha-Joon Chang recalls growing up in South Korea in the 1960s. In 1963, the per-capita income was $82, compared with $179 in cocoa-producing Ghana, a

Luke Vandore-Mackay

LukeMackayCooks

I’ve never spoken about this on here before but between 2001 and 2004 I was Head of Hospitality at The BBC - before I started cooking. One of my specific

Kürşad Decentralised

althorsword

-Great Thread Alert-For a while I had the idea of listing the most influential texts for my econ and liberalism perspective. But the point I’d make is that even when

Beth Popp Berman

epopppp

I cut 3000 words on the rise of economics in U.S. housing policy this week. In tribute (and since blogs are dead), I turned it into a very long Twitter

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

We have seen how the modern world is structurally left-wing. Our society has a chronic aversion to the investment of power into individuals, and therefore we find ways of putting

Timothy Huyer

tim4hire

This is shockingly disturbing that the Government of Alberta, through an official spokesperson, is adopting and amplifying a non-expert’s OpEd of a non-peer reviewed and highly questionable paper. It speaks

Steve Baker MP FRSA 🗽

SteveBakerHW

I'm backing eminent infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists with grave concerns about the prevailing COVID19 policies.They recommend Focused Protection.Join me in signing the Great Barrington Declaration, herehtt

Dr Naks ♥️

Tshi_Nakanyane

I'm not an economist but one should be able to tell how bad things could ho wrong should we relax our lock down rules. From my point of view [a

Kevin DeGood

kevin_degood

1/ Utah DOT's #1 priority is expanding US 89 and turning it into a limited-access highway. This project encapsulates some key transpo problems. - State DOT's don't respond to auto

Anna Gifty is finally on Tik Tok

itsafronomics

This morning, I want to make the Case for why Economics is arguably the dopest discipline EVER.It boils down to one thing: Economists are the most versatile (social) scientists we

Doctora Malka Older

m_older

Rich countries failed to deal with the pandemic. They failed to prepare for or deal with ice storms & hurricanes. They can't even protect their citizens from poverty. We should

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

In a previous life, I did PR (public relations). Doing tech-related PR and blogging opened my eyes to the world of copy-writing. Weird as this sound, and much as I

IDinsight

IDinsight

In this three-part blog series, our Chief Economist Dan Stein writes about multiple hypothesis testing in impact evaluations. Part 1: When do you need to worry about multiple hypothesis testing?

Kira Goldner

kiragoldner

What a wonderful way to start the week! Congrats to Paul Milgrom and Bob Wilson!!!Total giants who have impacted auction theory into practice, and pretty much every economist and algorithmic

Daniele Tavani

danieletavani

Joan Robinson was “probably the best economist alive” in Paul Samuelson’s own words.@zachdcarter rightfully celebrated her work on monopolistic competition (without which there wouldn’t be new trade theory nor endogenous

Stacy Cowley

StacyCowley

A conservative outlet published a story today about the @CFPB payday memo @nickconfessore & I recently wrote about (story linked) insinuating that the memo was intentionally leaked days before the