#Econ

Now that reports of disengagement from the PP-14 flashpoint of Galwan Valley have come out. I am piecing together my thoughts of what it could mean, does India has given
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Good news! I just got my first "Top 5" journal publication, in the Review of Economic Studies. Top 5 journals in econ are fetishized beyond belief. This publication helps show
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A full house for the “The Death of Japanese Studies” panel even 5 minutes before it begins. Is our field in a state of crisis? #AAS2019 Organized by John
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0/End of a CycleOver the last 11 years a debt fueled speculative economy with multiple asset bubbles has been primed for correction. Will this be remembered as the Great Crash
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Policy-friendly blog coming soon, but a few thoughts:1st, links btw pandemics [incl. #COVID19] & #violence are [unfortunately] no surprise to stakeholders who work in this area. However, research directly linking
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Paper Notes | The Appallingly Bad Neoclassical Economics of Climate Changeby @ProfSteveKeen The subprime moment for Neoclassical economics and how citing/quoting Nordhaus became a liability.https://www.patreon.com/posts/appallingly-bad-3804
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Everyone has heard about http://fast.ai  or CS231n (for a good reason), but did you know you can access Stanford’s CS224w ML with Graphs or download the book Elements of Causal
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I'm back with my second book on China that I've read recently as I try to learn more: Robert Haddick's Fire on the Water, which I assumed would be more
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The Dangers of Arab Localism and Al-Shu’biyyah:[Thread] What is Modern Shu’biyyah?The definition of Shu’biyyah in more non-linguistic but rather more casual terms is the anti-Arabian belief. There has been two
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I'd like to offer a Twitter book review of the Deficit Myth, which advances the ideas of Modern Monetary Theory or MMT. Overall, I was not impressed on a couple
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#Covid_19 on UG Economy. Low tourism no = businesses suffer + reduced forex (UGX depreciation?) Supply chain from China = low imports + reduced supply + increased demand, prices raise
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What is complexity science? A complex system is collective (many body--meaning many interacting parts), coupled (what i do effects what you do), characterized by adaptation/ learning, feedback b/w scales, nonlinearities,
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I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Basic Income since 2013. Here's a list of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments, unconditional cash transfer studies, and cash dividend research.The
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The copyright scholar James Boyle (@thepublicdomain) has a transformative way to think about political change. He tells a story about how the word "ecology" welded together a bunch of disparate
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Tokenomics. Crypto twitter throws this word around a lot but never explains it except "DYOR". What's the secret that OGs and projects don’t want you to know? And wish you'd
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A twitter thread in which I drag every single US president in order: George Washington: Dude was a shit-ass general who owned slaves and when the working class realized that
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