#Economists

Gray "serial millennial myth debunker" Kimbrough

graykimbrough

Male economists, 2020: Male economists, 2020: Male economists, 2020: Male economists, 2020: Tyler Cowen, economist bravely asking the questions about epidemiologists that others were afraid to ask:

Rethinking Economics

rethinkecon

Our new report “Economists & Crises” is here! We are incredibly excited to present the results of our investigation into the state of economics degrees in the context of Covid-19,

Claudia Sahm

Claudia_Sahm

announcement: Economic Job Market Rumors is done. morally bankrupt forum economists posting anonymously ... economists with PhDs from Harvard to less elite programs ... racist, misogynistic, homophobic attacksdon't care where's

Sridhar Vembu

svembu

1/ There is this technocratic idea that Economics is a scientific discipline like Physics. Not true.Subject to the "conservation law" that the world cannot consume what it has not produced

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

I’ve seen a bunch of epidemiologists snarking about negative oil prices being their chance to play amateur economist, but I think when weird stuff happens the views of smart outsiders

Martín González

martgnz

The picture is grim, but it might be even worse. Thanks to @datadista for compiling the Spanish data and @gilbellosta for starting the conversation.https://twitter.com/J_CD_T/status/1245739661449977867 We have been tracking the numbers

Pavel Mordasov

PavelMordasov

ON ECONOMISTS: Understand that my dislike for economists has exceptions as there are many in the field who I admire and respect wholeheartedly. My issue with economists is directed to

Stevie Vixx

vixcontango

"For reasons economists don't understand, when workers without college degree lose their manufacturing jobs, few choose to move elsewhere"Well, let's explain to those journalists then. A human being is a

Lisa D. Cook

drlisadcook

Agree. Economists don't consult (or admit to consulting) other fields enough. Some subfields are traditionally open to other fields, eg, econ history, development & pol econ. This piece has a

Justin Wolfers

JustinWolfers

Survey of leading economists:"Abandoning severe lockdowns at a time when the likelihood of a resurgence in infections remains high will lead to greater total economic damage than sustaining the lockdowns

Mass. Budget & Policy Center

MassBudget

.@rooseveltinst's recent piece, "Bolstering State Economies by Raising Progressive Taxes," gets it right: "Tax increases, especially those that fall on the rich, are far less damaging than spending cuts." Read

Will Wilkinson 🌐

willwilkinson

This is a good piece. But I find myself increasingly hostile to the economist's way of thinking in this context precisely because it refuses to admit trade-offs between incommensurable values.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-02/

Paul Romer

paulmromer

Noah may have a read on the general tenor of the conversation, but I personally do not think that the main action is along a tradeoff between “safe more lives

Jorge Morales Meoqui

MoralesMeoqui

What does #econtwitter think about the following: These days, many economists like to label themselves as either mainstream or heterodox economists. These self-labellings are in my opinion imprecise and sometimes

Philip Jung

makro_philip

I think this argument, I like to label the church argument, is at the heart of the problem: "in 50 years there will be hell. therefore everything can be justified

Ben Phillips

benphillips76

To understand inequality, economists & political scientists only take us so far. We need artists & musicians. Nina Simone’s Mississippi Goddam is a blunt lesson told to the privileged about