#Economists

Josh Crabb

JoshRCrabb

Chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin will be cross-examined in court this morning by lawyers for 7 MB churches and 3 people fighting COVID-19 restrictions, arguing they infringe

The Urbanist

UrbanistOrg

Let's keep it real: Sen. Jamie Pedersen (D-Seattle) says @cmkshama has turned Olympia against repealing the state #RentControlBan, but he didn't really support #RentControl in the first place and endorsed

Russ Jones

RussInCheshire

Blue-sky-thinkingI was involved in Jubilee 2000 (Drop the Debt) as a relatively low-level digital guy. Claim no credit.But the world needs that again, on a vast scale. Cos we are

Andriy WashYourHands Szkwarek

PonyFortyTwo

ThreadWhat if I started talking like this about the economy: The economy didn’t tank enough to warrant people going back to work. Besides, only a few people, mainly old people,

Eddie Chu 🧢🍎🤠

eddiechu888

Completely support a “MMT UBI,” for many reasons.https://twitter.com/frfriedpotaters/status/1277776595948834816 The history of printing money for government spending goes back at least as far as late Rome, and is particularly common in

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kaul_vivek

The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy data on unemployment is out. And it's not good. The rate of unemployment is now higher than 23%. Look at the jump. The urban

John Myles White

johnmyleswhite

The weirdest thing I find about people rejecting the use of per-capita statistics is that they still insist on reporting by country rather than by continent. If population doesn’t matter,

James Lin

jamestwotree

This paper blew up on Twitter. There are economists and historians waging arguments left and right. My take on why historians find this paper so problematic, and what economists who

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

Roberto Azevêdo

WTODGAZEVEDO

The WTO today issued its trade forecast for 2020. Our economists foresee a steep decline in global trade in 2020 in all regions and sectors, as the #COVID19 pandemic upends

Brad Setser

Brad_Setser

The @TheEconomist -- but not the U.S. Treasury -- embraces an SDR allocation.(the Economist is an overstatement of course, the column is from the author of "Free exchange" this week

Noah Haber

NoahHaber

Alright fellow epi and econ friends, gather 'round, time for me to talk about this articleBecause I am a native econ whose life quest it is to bridge the epi/econ

Claudia Sahm

Claudia_Sahm

/ thread on jobless benefits. debate we SHOULD have.ya' know what I would like to see the econ world fired up about **instead** of the possible work disincentives from jobless

William Gillis 🏴

rechelon

Gentrification and capitalist control are complicated dynamics with many considerations, but I will never stop fighting with my friends over 1) the need to build more housing at all tiers

Siba

SibanengMabhena

Since it's the 78th since uBaba #JacobZuma was born let's walk through his moments we will forever cherish. #ZumaDay 1. On African Liberation Movements. 2. On the meaning of his

Adam "Spooky Merlin" McCullough

TheWizardTower

The other point that seals the deal is: game dev is ~~sexy~~People would love to work on Witcher 3 or GTAV. How many want to manage a prod deployment for