#Policymaking

Jessica Green

greenprofgreen

Working my way thru @ForeignAffairs issue. Nordhaus calls for climate clubs to promote int’l action. Int’l relations has a lot to add, which is overlooked in his piece.THREAD cc @khar1958

Corrine McConnaughy

cmMcConnaughy

A list in no real order of academic work that my students this year found USEFUL for doing their own thinking and research.(Basically, this is an appreciation thread.) Administrative burden:

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

I'm more worried about the US outbreak than at any point since early March. We're on a similarly devastating trajectory, minus the political will to do something about it. That's

Tanvi Madan

tanvi_madan

Some updates to this thread below on the rhetoric we've seen - or not seen - from China & India during the ongoing boundary tensions. We've seen a few developments

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

My theory of US political equilibrium: both parties would like to please their donors, partly because it gives them the finance to win elections, and partly because individual party apparats

Don Moynihan

donmoyn

I am a professor of public management, and have done research both on disaster response and the types of administrative burdens that Stephens references in his column. Stephens is not

Kinley Salmon

kcsalmon

"Even the simplest information is often unavailable. In #Tanzania only about 1 in 8 births is registered; in #Niger only about 3% of deaths are"Me on how scarce #data in

Meghan Benton

meghan_benton

How has COVID affected migrants in the gig economy? – I've been putting together a reading list and some reflections. Thought I'd share. Please add sources I missed in comments.

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

Montana 🕊 AgentApplebutt™

AgentApplebutt3

4/14/2020 News Briefs: (1)Russian authorities have arrested a group of several dozen individuals who allegedly sold more than 1 billion counterfeit rubles (roughly $13.6 million in nominal value) for crypto

Perry World House

perryworldhouse

We're starting our event with @MarvinJRees, Mayor of Bristol, UK, talking about role of cities on the world stage. Mayor Rees talks about his own time living in Philadelphia and

Mathew

mathewlowry

I was prepping a post on the EU Commission's lethargic adoption of online conferencing but decided against it because of the snark. Then I see @TonyLbxl ask whether online conferences

Kristin Johnson

KrissyCabbage

Last year I spent about 6 months researching the history of the governance of the Boston School Committee (1974-1996). I sifted through documents from @ArchivesBoston, read years worth of news

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

1. Thread On Jeffrey D. Sachs So, The Lancet chose Jeffrey D. Sachs as the head of their Covid-19 "Commission".https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2820%2931494-X/fulltext?rss=yeswhich is in turn putting

David Spratt

djspratt

A thread. “Fear” versus “hope” in #climate communications. How about brutal honesty? @richardabetts @hausfath @GreenRupertRead @AlexSteffen @jembendell @RogerHallamCS21 @aubreygci @BreakthroughCCR @ClimatePsych @paulgildingr @Extinc

Charles Thépaut

diplocharlie

I have been in DC for more than a year now and I'm struck by the soul searching going on in the US expert community regarding what to do in