#Economics

Absolutely.A thread on papers that show the positive impact of having #women in #politics.(1/n)Women as #Policy Makers: Evidence from a randomized policy experiment in #IndiaRaghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflohttps://economics.mit.edu/f
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As you all know, I write A LOT (for different magazines and media outlets) on everything from economics to STEM to structural racism in those spaces.Inspired by the lovely @taylorcrumpton,
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I don’t know if I can go on in this field. I am lucky to have mostly avoided the harassment and abuse. On a personal level, my road has been
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Capitalism is only a couple hundred years old. Humans have not been paying to live/survive on this planet for thousands of years. Please understand this Production for profit and wage
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Fascinating @robyndoolittle deep dive into the lack of women in leadership positions across multiple sectors. It's not simply a problem at the top - it's pipeline leaking through women's careershttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/ca
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Most of the time when B2B tech companies have growth issues there are a couple of things that we should always look at and review first. Here are just three
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Should We Cancel Aristotle? - An enlightening analysis of cancel culture by philosopher ⁦@AgnesCallard⁩. Exposes the tension between truth and politics. Thread.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/opinion/should-we-cancel-aristotle.html S
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On this day in 1917, Stella Cunliffe was born. She became the first female President of the @RoyalStatSoc in 1975 and during her life was associated with many famous institutions
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The problem with pastoral ministry is that it often selects for men who are both not very good leaders and conflict averse. What I mean is:Start out with early-20-something men
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Many restaurants won’t survive to see the new year without a stimulus bill from congress. It didn’t have to go down like this...we couldn’t have prevented the pandemic but we
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I've been bitched at by people on the economic left for not seeing that economic justice is all we need, that once BIPOC have the same social services and economics
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This entire week, people in the economics space #econtwitter are going to be using @ASSA #ASSA2021, which is a huge annual conference for economists. If you're like me and forgot
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When a small minority of loud economists attacks researchers from other disciplines, it makes us all look bad.And allows the media to pit economists against epidemiologists in this unhelpful way
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I swear to all that is good, the Red Scare has to have been one of the most brain scrambling things to have happened in recent history when it comes
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It has been a pleasure to translate- @saifedean's book (the storyline)- @real_vijay's articles (the fundamentals)- @dergigi's articles & book (praxis)- @Breedlove22 articles (deeply philosophical)- @MartyBent newsletters (sh
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We’ve subjected power companies, and by extension consumers, to energy market traders that make money by waiting for the opportunity to price gouge desperate people for electricity. /14 But hey,
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