#Economists

Sanjukta Paul

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Did classical economics have an indigenous theory of property as such? Ie, prescribing actual property rules in one way or another? Did it hew to Locke in any meaningful sense?

Vicki J D ⛄️🎄

vickidzin

Larry Summers is a good example of why economists should not be seen as some kind of meta-authority on public policy. Economics is not and never has been primarily about

Ben Eisen

benkerteisen

Economists will provide most of the public-facing commentary from academics on the big $170 announcement today. And good! Economists are great and have contributed and will contribute so much to

Alan Levinovitz

AlanLevinovitz

I am...um...slowly coming around to critiques of (much) scholarly writing in the humanities. The problem isn't that people can't understand it—as I've pointed out, physics is hard for laypeople—it's that

Ben Golub

ben_golub

A small personal story behind this. When I was 19, I read Freakonomics, and like many economists who came of age then, it had a big impact on me.The Freakonomics

simon wren-lewis

sjwrenlewis

Mixed emotions about the FT mea culpa. https://www.ft.com/content/7b6242c5-8a25-4d98-ba0a-f9d9bd046085 “That consensus can be wrong was on display after the 2008 financial crisis, when many organisations — including this newspaper — a

Reg_monkey

monkey_reg

Let’s do a quick effort post. What economists call productivity growth is an error term! Saying productivity growth as a result is assuming a theoretical model that by definition has

Fabio Ghironi

FabioGhironi

Yesterday I gave a virtual seminar on “Interest Rate Uncertainty as a Policy Tool?” with @galipkemal at @NYFedResearch. I began my career there in 1999. This “visit” was a wonderful

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

Remember the financial crisis of 2008 and how it disproportionately hurt Black communities? It's definitely because none of the economists @federalreserve represented those communities at any level of leadership within

Jeff Spross

jeffspross

Economists struggle to find evidence that immigration reduces wages, yet business leaders' support for immigration is clearly based on believing it does just that. This suggests 1) economists are wrong,

aine doran

DoranAine

Engaging with secondary schools is one of the keys to addressing the gender problem in Economics. There are huge misconceptions by people outside the discipline as to what Economics actually

Sridhar Vembu

svembu

1/ Just because I drive a car and have driven it for a long time does not give me any particular insight on how to build one. Building requires a

Samuel Miller McDonald

sjmmcd

Every single economic growthist—whether liberal, socialist, centrist, or any other sort—is still a growthist only because they lack a basic understanding of ecological sciences (or are bad faith nihilists!) A

Rishika Malik

rishikamlk

Our country will not progress till the day our economists are respected. As an economics grad, when I quote a macro, weirdos butt in and start quoting their own figures

Soumaya Keynes

SoumayaKeynes

Wrote about econ and diversity this week. So. Time for some reading and some following... 1/ @NinaEBanks https://twitter.com/Nina_EBanks/status/1271841041973424129 2/ @TrevonDLogan https://twitter.com/TrevonDLogan/status/1274426285327093762

Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

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We know the Daily Mail, Express, Telegraph etc. lied about Brexit.We know that Johnson, Gove, Farage, Hoey & hundreds of other prominent people lied about Brexit.We know that some economists

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