#Economists

Ted "212 to the 817" Bauer

tedbauer2003

Are we honest about what we need from #hiring and #onboarding? Sadly, I would say we are not always open and "fully transparent" in the #recruiting context. A discussion ---

Aaron Smith

ASmithUCD

1. This week in Ag Data News, reducing pollution requires carrots to cajole good behavior or sticks to punish bad behavior. Everyone has an opinion about which approach is best,

Tommaso Valletti

TomValletti

Let me jump in this swashbuckling fight between @matthewstoller & @conlon_chris A THREAD for academic IO (= Industrial Organization) economists interested in competition policy1. *Trends* & *aggregates* are important. They

Unlearning Economics

UnlearnEcon

On the basis of the lack of good info about credible economic theories outside the mainstream, a thread of some of the ones I like. (1/N) The priority heuristic. Psychologists

Maya Forstater

MForstater

Back in September 2018 I asked this question, which lead to a twitter discussion, which lead to me losing my job.The Q wasn't about Bunce really but about whether, when

Blogger Me

BloggerMe3

A snippet from @abc730 @AlanKohler's #economiccrisisAK: But of course there's no bigger debt ATM than govt debt. The federal govt started the crisis with more than $570billion of debt AK:

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charliedrummond

I’ve been thinking about ideologues a lot lately. I’m thinking of intelligent, educated, capable people here - often scientists or economists or educators or professionals in their own right. Who

Melissa Chen

MsMelChen

The Broken Windows theory has not been fashionable for a while but I think mob-driven unrest and increase in crime rates today have lent some credence to it. In the

Sidney Winter

sidwindc

@Machiavellecon People grouse about Twitter, and I often wonder "What about the good stuff, which wouldn't have happened otherwise?" Today was a great example, thx to you in large part,

Erin Lockwood

erinkaylockwood

New Oxfam inequality report just dropped https://assets.oxfamamerica.org/media/documents/The-Inequality-Virus-English.pdf As an avid (and sometimes critical) reader of these reports for a working paper on how IOs and NGOs frame global inequ

Aditya Dasgupta

_adasgupta

It seems that the rationale that this antipoverty intervention conducted among the "ultrapoor" with a proselytizing religious organization in the Philippines is OK because: i) it was invitation-based; ii) the

Onur Özgöde

ummodern

Why do we have an econ indicator such as GDP? Most assume GNP, GDP's predecessor, was invented to measure economic growth.My new paper, Institutionalism in Action, shows it was constructed

George Selgin

GeorgeSelgin

Thread: Why is currency monopoly so important to these gov't representatives? And what sort of dissembling are they up in claiming that they want "to make sure the currency monopoly

Per Bylund

PerBylund

Needs do not matter. History is full of thinkers falling into the trap of referring to needs as were they something real and distinct. But by referring to what people

Book Cat 🌎

SchoolOfAmerica

#NowReading Realities in the Third Reich (1979) by Hans KehrlI’m reading a Spanish translation of the German. I’ll select highlights and put them into English for you. Hennig points out

Skanda Amarnath ( Neoliberal Sellout )

IrvingSwisher

This should be a sign that New Keynesian macro (aka bastardized Keynes) is a dead-end in so many critical ways. The suggested explanations here reflect limited introspection; Mankiw's outsized influence

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