#Econ

Jordan Schachtel

JordanSchachtel

Reminder: "Flatten the curve" does not mean destroy the virus. That was never the intent. Flatten the curve means extend the transmission timeline. This was always the rationale. It's now

N.S. Dolkart writes damn good books

N_S_Dolkart

I'm making vegetarian bao for dinner, and for once I have my act together enough to show you how.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPLU7pfRB6c We learned how to do this in college from our apartment

💉💉 Dr. Trey is Vaccinated

Comparativist

OK. I have a a few minutes to catch up on details. Where do I start?https://twitter.com/Comparativist/status/1322061899186368512 If you’re like me, your introduction to this saga was Trump accusing Biden of

Ayush Sharma

ayushswrites

Announcement: The Ultimate Guide to First-Principles Thinking (v2) is finally out on the homepage of Product Hunt.[THREAD] on everything that is new in this much improved versionhttps://www.producthunt.com/posts/fpt-guide First, we br

Brina Seidel

BrinaSeidel

I don't know what to say about the death of my good friend, Jim Pagels (@jimpagels). But I know he would have wanted everyone - everyone - to remember that

Jung H. Pak, PhD

junghpak1

NK’s recent actions and stmts are worrisome. Many have rightly pointed out how Kim is trying to manufacture tension & so far doing it in a nonlethal, but dramatic way.

Eric Falkenstein

egfalken

I remember way back in 1988, I knew a girl (Kaela Kiernan) getting a PhD in psychology at Yale. She told me everyone was excited by Kahneman et al's Judgement

Noah Haber

NoahHaber

A plea: please be extremely humble when considering any kind of policy impact evaluation.Impact evaluation requires a lot of things to come together just right, the right designs to capture

Josh Shifrinson

shifrinson

Very slick take here. IMHO, though, that this was not a failure of order but rather, the reality that nationalism in the face of a crisis is a heady beast.

Rohan Pitchford

PitchfordRohan

I completely disagree with Gigi Foster and Paul Frijter's prescription for dealing with coronavirus. But categorically defend their right to make their argument. Bizarrely, Australia has two extreme economic views

Nithya Raman

nithyavraman

I want to share a few things I learned while researching our campaign’s Small Business platform.In the LA metro area, 15,000 small businesses have closed since March -- 7,500 permanently.

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

There are great communicators in the Democratic party. Katie Porter is one of them. She and a rotating coalition of other Dems, along with health experts, should be doing a

Dan Crossley

dan_crossley

There’s a way to go in getting through worst of the pandemic. One thing I’m struck by is how much can be achieved in (relatively) short space of time when

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

Objecting to the core of @maitlis intro ['he broke the rules'] is to allow political power to define facts. That some don't agree on the facts does not make these

Dom Walsh

DomWalsh13

Argh. Can we not do the 'new FTAs vs Brexit GDP comparisons'. Of course new FTAs aren't going to make up for leaving the single market in GDP terms. They

Red

redbuckman

Supply is a Step FunctionI really wish Econ would teach this in the supply/demand curve. For most commodities running near peak, one more unit of sale isn’t really a thing.