#Economics

Paolo G. Piacquadio

pgpiacquadio

The assessment of situations with risk is one of the most fascinating (open) questions in welfare economics.Consider two identical individuals A and B. Each policy gives a state-specific income bonus.How

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

The US can do betterThree thousand people are dying every day. We can do better.1/ Hospitals are overflowing and many go untreated. We can do better,Our doctors and nurses see

animal spirits

proleasfuck

A thread on my opinions on Keynesian economics, Marxism, the depression, and the future of capitalism, after some study and investigation. It’s a mistake to think any one economic crisis,

Owain Evans

OwainEvans_UK

1/ Second thread on exciting philosophy from outside philosophy departments...https://twitter.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1326645830963634179 2/ Gerry Sussman. Hofstadter said Gödel invented LISP in proving the incompleteness theorem. Sussman

Scott Adams

ScottAdamsSays

I wonder if I could deprogram a Democrat from TDS on livestream. I’d start by asking them to make a list of national priorities. Then I’d talk them through the

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

EDUCATION.Distilling the conversation with @bryan_caplan hosted by @tylercowen 1) There has been a traditional separation between: + "liberal education" for free men, (liber), who didn't work for a living,

Aditya Mukerjee, the Otterrific 🦦 🏳️‍🌈

chimeracoder

well, if you got a six-figure job offer, you'd still likely be a member of the working class https://twitter.com/Bemundolack/status/1338579899024596994 "working class", as Marx defines it, is not a factor of

John McDermott

johnpmcdermott

Just filed my last piece of the year. Bloody knackered but I feel so lucky to do this job. Among other things, in 2020 I’ve reported on:— How African politics

Matt Harris

BigOrangeEcon

A great economist, friend, and mentor completed his retirement yesterday and exited the building. This is what he left behind. He also left to the public three/four decades of some

Shlomo

hapoelorient

Of course I am opposed to Anti-Semitism, my family is all from Poland but this boycott is non-senseIt achieves nothing & misses the point which is Anti-Semitism is NOT the

شرق‌زده

sharghzadeh

Western academia is NOT the place to learn your culture - go back to your home countries. Westerners who studied your culture via government funding are not who you should

eigenrobot

eigenrobot

clarke's third fundamental theorem of welfare economics states that any sufficiently advanced socialist economy is indistinguishable from a market economy thats where i endedwhere i started was thinking about the

Mac the VC

MacConwell

1/15 An oldie but goodie, some light holiday reading - What I look for in a pitch deck-Intro-Problem-Solution-Market Size-Business Model-Traction-Pipeline-3-5 Year Projections-Go-to-Market Strategy-Competition-Team-Ask-Closing#vc #startup #

Paul Lewis

PaulLew16394851

Heterodox economists have often criticised the mainstream, and also made the case for their preferred approach to economics, on ontological grounds (i.e., using arguments that focus on the capacity of

David W. Higgins

higginsdavidw

I watched the Eurovision movie, and I can’t stop thinking about Iceland’s fictional Central Bank Governor, Victor Karlosson.Probably the most outrageous central bank character to ever be put on screen.He

Kathy Qian 🇺🇸

kathyqian_

This disingenuous argument by @IlliniBizDean basically summarizes what’s wrong with economics in one tweet. Instead of empathizing with students who are struggling to make ends meet, he deflects to an

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