#Economists

Meghan Gadd

MeghanGadd1

A thing I’ve come across today is that some people are always going to vote against their self interests and I can’t let that steal my happiness. People are so

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

THREAD: The coming months will be dismal and depressing. But if we pull together we also have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fix the broken institutions that have contributed, one way

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

Sweden & New Zealand actually have something in common: scientific advisors in both countries did not think a vaccine would be available soon enough, so they chose their final objective.

Dr. Claudia William MD, MScHAL 🩺💊

DrCSWilliam

I cannot even begin to describe the public backlash that will occurs if #coronavirus kills more people than needed Bc economists & clout chasers want to reopen the economy despite

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

Raj

Raj717R

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Trinh

Trinhnomics

Agreed, India is the future. That said, no matter how hard investors, politicians, geopolitical strategists, economists & Indians want to attract investment, what matters is the Indian government & 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

Auren 📚 𝐇𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐦𝐚𝐧

auren

experts keep saying the U.S. has not had high inflation in the last 40 years ... but they are wronginflation is not about a basket of eggs and milk.inflation is

Noah Kaufman

noahqk

It’s Friday so can I interest you in awith a highly incomplete and self-serving history of the “optimal” taxation of carbon dioxide emissions? *proceeds without waiting for answer*Let's do this!

Adam Ozimek

ModeledBehavior

Okay here's my jobs day take: do not get stuck in the expectations game! My thread... Total job gains came in a little above expectations, so the expectations game says

Anna Stansbury

annastansbury

This is a huge mischaracterization of the arguments being made by every economist I know"Epidemiologists are insisting that we must take all necessary steps to control the spread of Covid-19.

Matt Notowidigdo

ProfNoto

Back in 2010, four economists ran a fascinating randomized experiment that assigned workers in China to work from home https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj4746/f/wfh.pdfThey found WFH raised productivity, increased work satisfactio

David Burge

iowahawkblog

Looks at Zillow estimate on house: holy shit I'm rich!Looks at prices of everything else: holy shit I'm poor! On the upside, if we have another pandemic at least we

Matthew Zietzke

MZietzke

Which candidate is more fit, a computer programmer, a musician, or a chemist?If you can't answer that question without further information, then the handicap/costly signal/PoW applied by each candidate is

Atif Mian

AtifRMian

Students wanting to do a PhD in economics are often told that math is importanthere's why (and some important caveats) ... Markets need to balance out on average, e.g. the