#Keynes

Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

CafeEconomics

A thread on my Covid opeds over the past few weeks.1. What Richard Feynman can tell us about the fragility of global supply chains.https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/covid-19-o-rings-and-the-worry-over-supply-chain-disruptions-11582649878797.ht

Erik Townsend 🛢️

ErikSTownsend

1/THREAD: Ok MAYBE THIS "CUT" NARRATIVE HAS FARTHER TO RUN...Having been outspoken on why I didn't think a big KSA/Russia production cut would ever happen, I'm going to take the

Jia Lynn Yang

jialynnyang

Four years ago I started working on a book. That book is out today and I want to pause to explain how wild it is to me that this is

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

A abt the question we're going to have to confront at some point but no one wants to talk about: how on earth are we going to pay for

Meme Arcana

MemeArcana

One meme per book I’ve finished in 2020: “Buddhism as Philosophy” by Mark Siderits. “Seeing Like A State” by James C Scott. “The Internationalists” by @oonahathaway & @scottjshapiro “Why We’re

The Statistics Guy Jon 🤓

Jon_statistics

Calling ALL truth seekersThe testing regime is being used to calculate the R rate, and in turn lockdowns.We need volunteers to take pictures of testing venues on a regular basis.

JW Mason

JWMason1

Those lumber prices, huh? $1,600 per 1000 board-feet, up from $400 a year ago. Why? This story mentions a mills closing prior to the pandemic, reducing supply; not a lot

Erik Torenberg

eriktorenberg

Econ Twitter:Tell me where the below is wrong or add nuance to some of the claims:- Misconceptions around monetary policy- Similarities btw 1929, 1990s (Japan), & 2008 & lessons learned-

Ian

r0guetrainer

"In DSGE models ... economic system is assumed to behave like a consumer with fixed preferences over how much they wish to consume ...This is equivalent to attempting to model

Chris Armstrong

ckarmstrong

Some people actually think a shift to #MMT will bring about a great economic restructuring to the public's benefit, by freeing it from self-imposed austerity and better distributing wealth by

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

30 million workers have had their financial lifeline cut off, and talks are stalled. But this isn't because "Congress" is dysfunctional; it's because *Republicans* are wedded to nonsense economics 1/

Nicolás Dvoskin

ndvoskin

¿Qué es la historia del pensamiento económico? En principio es una asignatura obligatoria en casi todas las carreras de economía de Argentina que funciona como museo de las teorías económicas

Glasgow Girl

sapiofoxy

Agenda 21 became Agenda 2030 in Sept 2015 in Rome, with the Pope’s blessing with 17 clear goals put in place to achieve its end game, along with the aim

Tim Harford

TimHarford

THREAD1/"When the facts change, I change my opinions. What do you do? - Attributed (without evidence) to John Maynard Keynes, hero of "How To Make The World Add Up" ch

The Theme Scene

The_Theme_Scene

The things I do for coasters.... Its 04:52 here in London... and I'm off to catch a bus, to connect with a tube, to connect with a train to connect

Alasdair Rae

undertheraedar

A few 'levelling-up' related maps today, after looking at recent ONS data release on local authority populations for each year 1981 to 2019 (based on 2020 boundaries)- simple overall population