#Economists

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/5Yes, you are right, Matt. In hindsight we forget how terrified the US and Europe were in the late 1950s and 1960s about what seemed like a formidable Soviet technological

Mike McKinnon

mikemckinnon

A #bcpoli thread:How @jjhorgan and the @bcndp government kept the province and economy going effectively during a pandemic - and are building a strong recovery. First of all - the

Goldy

GoldyHA

1/ To add a little texture to @NickHanauer's thread, it's important to recognize that there's a good reason why orthodox economists (& economic cosplayers) so vehemently oppose a $15 min

Dr Lindsay 'Difficult Woman' Tedds🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺

LindsayTedds

Also Alberta. Confabbed with a number if mums today on this, most trying to figure out how they will possibly be able to keep their jobs or run their companies.

Zach Carter

zachdcarter

Stimulus checks are not a limited resource. Real resources are limited resources. If stimulus checks outstrip the productive capacity of society, we could have a problem, but a certain type

Tara Sinclair

TaraSinc

Now that we’ve logged 2 quarters of negative GDP growth (a rule of thumb to support the NBER’s official ruling that a recession started in 2020Q1), I think it’s time

Ricardo Reis

R2Rsquared

** MMT is the new supply-side economicsForty years ago, some economists started from an uncontroversial (but important) result: a lower tax rate raises the tax base, so revenues won't fall

Peter McCormack

PeterMcCormack

As a bitcoiner, it can feel a difficult place believing:- Humans are causing climate change- Trump lost a fair election- Government is an inevitability (with all its faults)- Covid is

Nick Hanauer

NickHanauer

Long rant: This @WSJ article bemoaning the decline of price theory is really worth highlighting. The economic theories and so called "laws of economics" that the WSJ consistently and religiously

Diane Swonk

DianeSwonk

Personal news. I was diagnosed with breast cancer on December 23. I caught it early, which is a reminder of the need to keep your checkups current, despite the pandemic.

Mallory McMorrow

MalloryMcMorrow

True story: I approached one of my R colleagues w idea of creating a bipartisan economic development package. I'd put together ideas and a presentation. I'd done a ton of

Doug Campbell

TradeandMoney

This problem is even worse in academia. If you write a paper that goes against what the median referee in your field believes, good luck getting it published.https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1354135053262057473 In academia,

Ritesh cholera

cholera_ritesh

We need ambedkarite economists !(A thread) Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar was an economist. In fact, he was the first Indian to be awarded a PhD in economics & has extensively

Jean Riachi

riachi_jean

Very interesting videos from the inventor of the word Lollar. The lollar defines any amount sitting in a Lebanese bank account prior to October 2019. It is pegged to the

David Milliken

david_milliken

Mixed bag from UK jobless data: bad top line with unemployment highest since mid-2016 and a record number of redundancies. But some economists see a silver lining: net job losses

Thibaut

Kpaxs

Random provocative thoughts, a THREAD: The educational system is a system which reduces the student to a commodity, to be delivered to the hands of the corporation. In capitalist societies,

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