#Economists

Danny Cullenward

dcullenward

14/ There is no a constituency for quality in policy because polluters rely on offsets to water down mandated carbon prices. Sincere buyers in private markets struggle to find quality

Matt Notowidigdo

ProfNoto

One of the goals of #TweetABlackEconomistsPaper is to highlight the work of under-appreciated black economists, so I have to start with Mel Stephens Jr. -- no question about thathttps://twitter.com/dougwebberecon/status/1279142242746281988

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Covid-19 has led to a number of shortages. It has also, as a consequence, produced an epidemic of price-gouging. 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/us/coronavirus-price-gouging-hand-sanitizer-masks-wipes.html Crucially, the Trump administration’s r

Andy Frank

AndyJFrank

To put a an even finer point on this from @aldatweets, "mainstream liberal opinion" needs to get its shit together before it kills us allAs someone indoctrinated in that world

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/This thread argues that prizes like the Econ Nobel should be given based on the importance of the questions people *ask*, not on how sure we are that they got

Ed Carr

edwardrcarr

The fact economists (and apparently an economic anthropologists) think this upends our development narratives is not so much an individual failing as emblematic of how disciplines/disciplinary conversations can hold us

Aidan Smith

aidan_smx

The thing about Paul Krugman is that he's deeply scarred from being passed over for the CEA Chair job by Bill Clinton in 1992, which is why on election years

Ben Casselman

bencasselman

In his newsletter this morning, @DLeonhardt hits on something I've been thinking a lot about lately: What counts as good (economic) news right now?https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/briefing/how-badly-is-america-doing.html When the May

DMKM

2paisay

This is a slightly longer topic. Instead of one very long thread (ppl r complaining ) I will break it into multiple bite sized small threads. This is Thread 1

Gernot Wagner

GernotWagner

I wrote a thing for on Biden's climate plan. http://gwagner.com/risky-business-biden-planIt's good. The plan, that is.What I wrote is also squarely addressed at my fellow economists: please don't make this harder

The Karl Polanyi Project

theKarlPolanyi

Reading @zachdcarter’s excellent biography of Keynes there’s a fantastic parallel to be drawn between him and Polanyi Both men witnessed the unraveling of laissez-faire in 1929 and deduced that capitalism

Olivier Gossner

O_Goss_

Congratulations to both! I have to say that Bob Wilson is one of my personal stars, both extremely relevant empirically and highly mathematical when appropriate.https://twitter.com/nobelprize/status/1315589975002550272 Kreps and Wilson intr

Jamison Foser

jamisonfoser

Should Chris Cillizza shut the hell up forever? | Analysis by @jamisonfoser’s Jamison Foser Cillizza’s “analysis” quotes Donald Trump twice and health experts, scientists, and economists a grand total of

The Associated Press

AP

BREAKING: US unemployment claims hit 6.6 million -- another record high -- as layoffs accelerate in face of coronavirus.http://apne.ws/gQqgGXn More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week,

Sandeep Parekh

SandeepParekh

So Andy calling me a Bhakt is a delicious twist. He lives in HK (not Sing) - try searching for his pieces critical of Chinese economic managment of HK or

Chris: Eats one burger per month to own the GOP

PrivateSnuffy

Let's talk for a moment about how the press - often the financial press - has framed this issue. 1/?https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1391838085877575681 It is very easy to snap a photo of an