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At the moment we are rightly focused on stimulus/relief fiscal packages. But going forward, imo, progressive economists should be pushing conversation about fundamental principles of monetary policy. (thread)https://twitter.com/Frank_vanler
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I think there's actually an important and non-obvious question here. When we talk about the multiplier from additional spending, how are we imagining that distributed over time?https://twitter.com/ernietedeschi/status/135770323778531738
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Rudi Dornbusch summarizes the consensus position on monetary policy; it’s all about “getting rid of democratic money.”I think this was fair statement of the general view economists when he wrote
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Rapid decarbonization will almost necessarily be experienced as an economic boom. Renovating buildings, investing in new structures and equipment, building infrastructure, etc. add to demand; decommissioning existing stuff does not
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Big news: Mike Konczal’s Freedom from the Market is out. I got an early copy of the book and read it last month, but now that it’s officially published, you
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This is shocking irresponsible. The study Oster is promoting here piles unsupported assumption on unsupported assumption to produce a wildly speculative number ("estimate" is too generous) for purported deaths from
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Enrollment in NYC public schools last year was 1.1 million. Today, it's 750,000, with almost two-thirds of those fully online. https://schoolcovidreportcard.health.ny.gov/#/districtData;bedsCodeId=300000 We know that the schools with mo
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The exit polls are a nice example of collider bias, an important and ubiquitous but not very intuitive problem in statistics. Collider bias means this: If a and b both
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What I would love to see right now is a strong positive argument for why mail delivery is a service that should be provided by the government, by public employees.
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