#Economists

Kate Davidson

KateDavidson

Republicans say the extra $600 in weekly unemployment benefits is discouraging some people from returning to work. Economists who’ve studied the payments say there’s no evidence that more generous benefits

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

#EconTwitter I want to take a moment today and list all the topics that economists study that aren't the stock market:- student debt- racial wealth gap- prison industrial complex- sex

Kitty Newman (she/her)

Kittynewman

If Deliveroo aren't making money on Deliveries they must be seeing HUGE value in the customer data they're collecting. They were valued at $7billion this year, despite being in £317.7m

athreya

athreya49

Recently finished reading ‘The Economists’ Hour’ by @BCAppelbaum. It’s a remarkable history of economic policy making. What we also get in the process is a series of fascinating portraits about

Steph Sterling

stephsterlingdc

.@JStein_WaPo raises a good question here: can $15/hour minimum wage be done via reconciliation? A short thread:https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1350161737996267523 The key question to answer is whether the Parliamentarian would rule

Christopher Mims

mims

People with a high school degree or less in the US — that is about half of all Americans — have seen their real wages decline for the past 30

Lindsey Leininger

lindsleininger

I've lived my entire professional life at the intersection of Econ Blvd and Epi Street. I won't mince words: Economists have a lot to offer the epi modeling community. And

Dan Hirschman

asociologist

Between 1946 and 2016, economists testified before Congress more than 10,000 times, more than double the other major social sciences combined. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230104 Fascinatingly, and very

Christopher Mims

mims

This is the most important thing I’ve ever published, and I’ve been a technology journalist for more than a decade.(thread )https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-is-dividing-the-american-worker-11598068859 People with a high school degr

Jonathan Portes

jdportes

The economic impact of the Brexit deal: our analysishttps://ukandeu.ac.uk/research-papers/the-economic-impact-of-boris-johnsons-brexit-proposals-2/ Key points to remember:1. Leaving Single Market/Customs Union means major new trade barriers

Jason Herring

jasonfherring

NEW: Alberta is reporting 1,026 new COVID-19 infections today.It's a new single-day record, and the first time the province has surpassed 1,000 cases.#COVID19AB #yyc #yeg All of today's new #COVID19AB

Jo Michell

JoMicheII

A response from Rob Jump and me to the latest OBR forecasts and the associated commentary.Sunak's statement that ‘economic emergency has only just begun’ set the tone for press coverage

Sanjukta Paul

sanjuktampaul

A brief word about having resigned my fellowship with the Thurman Arnold Project: I decided it's appropriate to now focus upon a current organizational effort among junior academics in the

natural money

naturalmoneybtc

Fisher's deflationary debt spiral specifically parses 'deflation' from the spiral noted here. Growth deflation is not a risk... it's a byproduct of growth.https://twitter.com/mtmalinen/status/1358720664585318400 Fisher, who

Matthias Doepke

mdoepke

So @JohnHCochrane favorably compares the Hoover analysis of economic policies proposed by the Biden campaign with the "Economists against Trump" letter signed by more than 1,000 economists. As one of

Judea Pearl

yudapearl

1/ I've just (re)discovered a beautiful paper by White and Lu https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/REST_a_00153?casa_token=6XwrBL-eqgsAAAAA:FQHJDSIZsiSAfv7OSVmDVNBoji75JenonbbPIE2IVmSu9ybbUozyGLgSwEzqtk6AXY6FAKPuaUkGIt g

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