#Economists

Tiffany Green

Tiffany_L_Green

Thank you for writing this @itsafronomics, though you shouldn't have had to. I keep seeing some wringing of hands of non-black economists on what they can do, as if we

Chris Edmond

chrisedmond

In my view, as economists, we should be focused on the use of economic tools to mitigate all the suffering caused by this crisis, not just the narrowly economic but

Paul Holland

Paul_Hol1000

FOA -. managing the price of gold lower has helped create rapid money supply growth & the lowest interest rates ever seen". That effort has got us this far today

Ari Paul ⛓️

AriDavidPaul

I spend much of my time navigating contrasting expert opinion and trying to adjust for biases, and to identify when expert consensus may be simply wrong. Here's the heuristics I

Ezra Klein

ezraklein

There are (at least!) four big reasons why Biden's presidency has been so much bigger, so much more ambitious, than the rest of his career:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/opinion/biden-jobs-infrastructure-economy.html 1. The collapse

Mark Paul

MarkVinPaul

Friends, I know the cool thing to do these days is to bash carbon pricing, but I think it's a huge mistake. First, let me say @mmildenberger & @leahstokes's essay

Ben Golub

ben_golub

"Reductionist" (i.e., most economic) theories of collective action explain acts like voting by individual incentives, perhaps including "social" phenomena via payoff terms like social pressure or warm glow.A short thread

Mark Cuban

mcuban

Yes I did. And would love all economists to tell me where I’m wrong or how to do it better , but if 50m people are unemployed/underemployed, a job paying

Dominika Langenmayr

D_Langenmayr

I promised a thread about my twitter experience when I reached 4000 followers. Here it is! Read if you want to know more about this econ professor’s twitter experience (and

catherine liu

bureaucatliu

On the rejection of Freud, love of Marx in young people interested in Critical Theory: (@anniemcclanahan actually had a real analysis, mine is pure fantasy fiction) -- Psychoanalysis is like

Adam Bienkov

AdamBienkov

Tony Abbott, who has been signed up as Boris Johnson’s new Brexit trade adviser, is talking to Policy Exchange this morning, where he is railing against the “health dictatorship” of

Cristina Caffarra

Caffar3Cristina

#Data_protection experts need a place at the #antitrust table. It's not just about the #intersection, it's about #integration of data harms as monopoly rent extraction in actual cases. Thoughts on

Jake Vigdor

JakeVigdor

Here's a little thread you might callA TALE OF TWO CLARK(E) MEDALSWherein the @AEAInformation's J.B. Clark medal shall be compared and contrasted with the @geochemsoc F.W. Clarke award. Which also

Sphinx of Black Quartz, judging your vows

HisNameIsOx

A thread about this interesting episode of the podcast Freakonomics, aka "Know thine enemy" or "The one I listen to when I feel like there's not enough anger in my

Max 'Just Give People Money' Ghenis

MaxGhenis

We're (appropriately) digging a big hole in the budget we'll need to start filling once the economy recovers. Many will again call for a wealth tax, so it's worth reiterating

Josh Hammer

josh_hammer

THREAD:The theme today on the Sunday talk shows seems to be, “Will Trump listen to the medical experts by May 1?”Reality check: We don’t elect public officials to listen only