#Economists

Goldy

GoldyHA

1/ I'm not sure where @KING5Seattle reporter @jwhittenbergK5 gets his news, but it's obviously not from watching KING 5 news. Because if he did, he'd be well familiar with a

Zach Freitas-Groff

zdgroff

Today I learned that my friend (@tyler_m_john) with many economist friends had not encountered Hayek's argument about prices as information before.Econs, we gotta get the word out!Non-econs: prices are a

Jordan Ellenberg

JSEllenberg

I checked whether what David Brooks says about colleges here is true, and it's not. https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/i-dont-work-at-a-finishing-school/ It's in fact quite unusual to have more students from the top 1% t

Rich Lucas

rlucas11

I'm kind of surprised at all the criticism that that PNAS paper on income and happiness has been getting. Here are some responses to the criticisms I've seen. After an

Eric Roston

eroston

If you could see dimly into the future—which you can!—and calculate in dollars the benefits of actions preventing utter destruction and chaos, what would you call this price? You might

Sheldon Whitehouse

SenWhitehouse

I disagree. The renewables revolution is a strategic danger to Russia, its economy, and its petro-politics. John McCain liked to call Russia “a gas station, with an army, run by

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

The most spectacular achievement of capitalist propaganda is convincing us that capitalism is somehow compatible with democracy.What makes this lie so incredible is that, as we will prove, capitalism is

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

The Achilles Heel of a capitalism’s market system is in what economists call externalities: the human, societal & environmental costs of economic activity completely externalized from both buyers & sellers.Externalities

Stephanie Kelton

StephanieKelton

Short threadAnyone who has been paying attention knows that what we’re hearing from a number of economists today was laid out more forcefully more than a decade ago by those

Ahmed Jamal Pirzada

ajpirzada

(Comment: 1/6) Deficits r not always bad but can be catastrophic if markets lose faith in ur repayment capacity. Unlike India & Bangladesh, growth episodes in #Pakistan (2004-08 & 2015-18)

Cristina Caffarra

Caffar3Cristina

Nonono. There is *nothing* new in #DMA on digital mergers other than the obligation of #gatekeepers to inform. *Nothing* new on substantive assessment (unlike @CMAgovUK proposals). So *nothing* to prevent

scott cunningham

causalinf

JEP has just published an article by Eleanor Murray, an epidemiologist at BU School of Public Health I think. Eleanor is someone I’ve gotten to know on Twitter bc she

Deep Barot

deepbarot

Important thread on latest developments in #COVID19 vaccine race, thread also breaks down my investment picks as requested. Right now (in the US):1. Moderna- Phase II (Clinical Trials), NIAD partnership2.

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

Biden says that while nobody knows anything for certain, he believes the coronavirus pandemic will be winding down by this upcoming Christmas Biden refers to Trump as "the former guy"

Sridhar Vembu

svembu

India's NPA (bad debt) problem arose because India has run massive trade deficits which were funded with debt, very often dollar-denominated debt at the corporate sector. We don't have the

Adam Baxendale

AdamBaxendale3

Im pro @SantiagoAuFund and @MetreSteven because they're right. But what i don't understand is why so many of the worlds best economists are obsessed with finding inflation that isn't there

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