#Econ

Grieve Chelwa

gchelwa

This #COVID19 crisis is once again showing us how important it is to democratize & diversify the editorial boards of “top” scholarly journals. The African continent has been battling outbreaks

Bryan Alexander

BryanAlexander

A few thoughts about fall enrollment.#thread I'm not sure how far down total enrollment will go.There are lots of pressures:-fear of reinfection for f2f classes-suspicion of online class quality-circulation of

Alex MacKenzie 🇱🇷🗺️

UMD_AREC

Given the drama on #EconTwitter I just want to ask one thing: Why is it that econ twitter exists? Why did economists collectively decide that the best platform to centralize

Joshua Loftus (defundNYPD.com)

joftius

"COVID is bad because trump is unqualified" fails as an argument because1. Comparisons to Europe2. The supposedly qualified people are the products of meritocracy--a self-mythologizing system where grifters are as

Brian Romanchuk

RomanchukBrian

Been seeing fragments of a discussion among neoclassical economists who are confused about MMT. I’m somehow too busy to peruse the thread (no idea how that happened), to see the

John Pfaff

JohnFPfaff

I still find myself amazed that decades of cost-benefit analyses of crim justice policy in econ, criminology and other fields never seriously wrestled w opportunity cost.If $1 spent on, say,

Nina Eichacker

nina_econ

This was a profoundly depressing thread to read -- as someone with an economics PhD who was not advised to do any of these things, I can see where the

Beatrice Cherrier

Undercoverhist

1/ This quote is a 1963 collective statement by 18 economists concluding a week-length discussion of econometrics in Vatican at the request of the Pontifical Academy Science, a story told

Jeremy Bentham's Severed Head

Malarksist

Okay, I'm gonna compile some criticisms I and others have had of @UnlearnEcon's treatment of Diamond, and also talk about the ways in which I think his response to some

Doug Johnson Hatlem

djjohnso

A private discussion prompts me to say this publicly about how I see the potential for where Tuesday's results will wind up nationally.Will seem like a fair bit of a

JohannesBorgen

jeuasommenulle

This is v. interesting - basically oxford econ did a huge database of world lockdown measures and ONS regressed it against known GDP prints. It works pretty well, so I

Michael Clemens

m_clem

Brilliant paper. No meaningful difference in cognitive ability between Black & white children at age 8 mos.Even without controlling for income, home/prenatal conditions, etc.Yet “deep roots” literature in econ. development

Michael P Pregent

MPPregent

Badr is not the Baath Party - you don't have to be Badr to have a job - it's the IRGC's premier proxy in Iraq.Designating Badr is not "the nuclear

Pete🔥#CancelRent🔥Harrison

PeteHarrisonNYC

Don’t buy blaming Hudson Yard’s imploding on covid. It was always a ponzi scheme designed to funnel public wealth out of poor neighborhoods and illicit foreign wealth into America. It

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Lots of stories like this over the past couple of days. Easy and reasonable to mock them: "People who make a lot of money from capital gains say taxing capital

Heidi N. Moore

moorehn

New York always bounces back. The fact that job listings fell is likely a sign of the fact that entirely too many jobs were based in New York in the