#Economist

Hugo Brady

hugobrady

Essential question that needs to better understood, soberly, not emotionally. It is a bit like Nostradamus' predictions on the End of the World: always about to happen for reasons newly

Alberto Garzón🔻

agarzon

Es una novedad cierta e interesante que la presidenta del BCE diga (y además es el inicio de su artículo) que los manuales de economía no sirven para abordar esta

Ricky Coxon

rickycoxon

1/ The economy is like a household budget and you have to cut your cloth accordingly is probably the greatest lie ever told.For the past 9 months the Gov't has

African American Policy Forum

AAPolicyForum

Join @sandylocks @DrIbram @davidwblight @kate_manne @SandyDarity Wed as they look @ the history of disasters and the pre-conditions that make their destructiveness possible, particularly pertaining to race and gender inequality

Christian Bluth

christianbluth

Two days ago, I travelled from Heidelberg, Germany to Florence, Italy for work. I'm struck by how different things are in the two countries. Given that few people have the

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/8Although I sympathize with Stephen King’s frustration at some of the sillier things proposed in the name of MMT, I think it is deceptive to suggest that government borrowing today

Ulrich Speck

ulrichspeck

Two interesting bits here. Merkel telling Macron that she is fed up. https://twitter.com/StevenErlanger/status/1198164037621682178 And: "There are also concerns among allies that Mr. Macron is considering a speech about creating a

Ayesha Razzaque

razzaque_ayesha

As education systems around the world grapple with COVID-related school closures and resulting learning and enrollment losses, imp to remember the veritable lifelong damage inflicted on children in war-zones. This

Michael Clemens

m_clem

The US Administration is reportedly preparing to bar foreign graduates of US universities from staying here to work. Each percentage point fall in those graduates as a share of population

Iain Brassington 🇪🇺

IBrasso

This is a provocative thread, and it's roughly parallel with ideas I've been kicking around for a while.https://twitter.com/JohnWest_JAWS/status/1273763212756946947 That said, I disagree with the claim that it's not a right-wing

A repository of #MMT resources by @ActivistMMT.

MMTResources

1/ When it comes to issuing currency the Federal Reserve is clearly a creature of Congress. They can inflict a lot of damage bc Congress allows them to do too

NDTV

ndtv

NDTV - @OxfamIndia #India4All telethon | Actor Sidharth Malhotra [@SidMalhotra] on impact of #CoronavirusLockdown on the poor. NDTV - @OxfamIndia #India4All telethon | Actor Sidharth Malhotra [@SidMalhotra] on impact of

Sultan Mehmood

mrsultan713

This discussion is fascinating! How would a modern empirical economist, student of Duflo and Piketty answer this? The fundamental empirical question is it worth going to Harvard when US State

Bryan Stuart

BryanAStuart

Excited to share my new @nberpubs paper w/ @martha_j_bailey and the late John DiNardo. We look at what happened when the 1966 FLSA increased its minimum wage to the highest

Seema Jayachandran

seema_econ

New evidence that raising the minimum wage can boost workforce productivity. That means that paying workers more need not come at the cost of fewer jobs or lower profits. Consumers

National Gallery of Ireland

NGIreland

This week’s #CuratorsChoice comes from Anne Hodge, Curator of Prints & Drawings:“At a time when many families are having to home-school their children, I thought it might be interesting to