#Economists

Red Kahina

RedKahina

Increasingly, I find that people no longer understand the most straightforward things: they read Marx as if he is speaking allegorically. E.g. as if exchange-value were not an observable phenomenon

Caitlin Long 🔑

CaitlinLong_

1/ HOW TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON IN FINANCIAL MKTS. Western world built up a debt bubble of stunning proportions over past ~50yrs. It's deflating now, just as it tried

Kathryn Andrusky

kandrusky

If a certain Premier can *decide* to be an Epidemiologist-for-a-day, I figure I can take a crack at being an Economist. A lot of “party line” misinformation is still being

Alan Cole

AlanMCole

My new @JECRepublicans report. The basics: saving often gets a bad rap from demand-side macroeconomists, especially during recessions. However, under the particular circumstances of COVID-19, it's doing some good stuff!https://www.jec.s

Dr. Rob Davidson #WearAMask

DrRobDavidson

IMPORTANTAs an ER doctor and as a fellow citizen I want to see the economy and our society open back up as much as anyone. Here’s the thing…. (1/16)https://www.npr.org/2020/04/18/837776218/across-america-frustrated-protesters-rally-to-reopen-the-econ

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

This is a phenomenal article on the potential of different sorts of testing, and the ways that we are limited by demands for sensitivity and specificity. There's one important thing

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

HUGE. **Rapid** 15 min tests approved by @WHO—a bold & right step for #COVID19. Akin to home pregnancy tests, rapid antigen tests better than PCR where labs scares & lag

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Last week, 2.4 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the 16th week in a row that unemployment claims have been more than twice the *worst* week of the

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

I hear people say "right and left" are no longer coherent concepts. This is wrong but I see the temptation. The right lost bigly and no one wants to be

Madanlal Dahariya

MDahariya

Thanks @DasShaktikanta for red-lighting #adityapuri cc @dugalira @sriramramET @TamalBandyo @andymukherjee70 @NeerajHDFCBank @rashmirajput_ET @joel_rebET @sriram_ET @atmadiprayET @sugataghoshET @b50 https://twitter.com/MDahariya/status/1245

Richard Murphy

RichardJMurphy

We have just had another week when the media has obsessed about what they call the UK’s national debt. There has been wringing of hands. The handcart in which we

Beatrice Cherrier

Undercoverhist

Seems important for econs (& everyone, in fact) to follow historians of medicine/epidemiology, if only to learn lessons from history of econ & epi side by side. So here's a

Stephen Barlow

SteB777

1) This came up in a discussion the other day, when someone was misguidedly claiming that cuts to emissions should come before attempts at system change, because that was impossible

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

NEW! research shows rapid antigen tests can work in a real world setting - with asymptomatic and symptomatic people. The rapid "paper-strip" antigen test called the BinaxNOW detected >90% of

Jake and The Derg ⚖️💛🐝

JakeReif

Trump focused on the stock market—not the economy—instead of the virus OR the economy is the real story the media keeps missing.This is him being the out-of-tough elite “billionaire” class

Alon Eizenberg

eizenb_alon

During the past decade, many of you were subject to see our Jerusalem supermarkets paper in seminars and workshops. Possibly more than once. It is now accepted at the AEJ:Policy,