#Economists

Robinson Meyer

yayitsrob

I’ve been covering COVID-19 testing with @alexismadrigal for the last six months. We’ve kept coming back to the same questions: Why is testing still broken in America? Can it be

Jan Schnellenbach

schnellenbachj

I thought about the blog post by @claudia_sahm on the state of economics for a while. If you haven't read it yet, here it is: https://twitter.com/Claudia_Sahm/status/1288279714247913472. 1/ She describes an

aayeff

aayeff1

There was a time when ppl esp journalists scoffed at anyone who suggested that it was idiots who voted for Modi. They'd say how can u criticise voters? Actually, it

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

It's just almost cartoon-villain-level evil to see @senatemajldr @GOPChairwoman @GOPLeader try to lay their own blocking of meaningful pandemic relief for months, while thousands died, at Nancy Pelosi's feet. 1/

Jack Salmon

_JackSalmon_

With a Keynesian in the treasury, the “debt and deficits don’t matter” crowd are seemingly excited about pushing our national debt to record levels and beyond. This is an oversized

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Writagal

So. I went to an event yesterday.There was a woman sitting next to me who decided that it would be okay to attend while she was sick.She was coughing the

Jennifer Keesmaat

jen_keesmaat

Many mid-sized cities won’t win the future because they are stuck on a suburban growth model. It will take 180-degree policy reversals to halt unsustainable growth. This argument is more

Joe Weisenthal

TheStalwart

I disagree with the premise of this @Noahpinion piece. He asks: when will US gov borrowing lead to a problem/hyperinflation. And then says nobody knows. But IMO the very question

Gennady Rudkevich

grudkev

This is a dissertation for a Harvard Public Policy Ph.D. from 2009... If you thought "national IQ" was a dumb concept, how about taking that up a notch and making

Dilmurad Yusupov

d_yusupov

Seems like a response to @bkhoshim's op-ed @gazeta_uz on democratisation as a reason of economic growth. Experts at the Center for Economic Research warn that democracy may not be a

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/8Good article, although I think the argument as to whether or not GDP is a good measure of economic performance largely misses the point. Of course it isn't, but no

Wanting better

cschneider8224

To the epidemiologists, defending Oster I honestly ask – would you be comfortable framing things the way Oster does? Discussing schools, would you say people are “overreacting” or say “these

Carmen Villa-Llera

cvillallera

This summer we started thinking about the differential impact of the pandemic... Of curiosity and given the lack of good data visualisations online we mapped out some statistics on furlough

Dr. Shantel G. Buggs, Ph.D. bka "Openly Black"

sgbuggs

I’m not going to retweet them but I’ve seen some complaints about this article and how it’s “not about the real middle class.” I have thoughts.https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22245223/black-middle-class-racism-reparations now, I’m

Haider Imtiaz

mhaiderimtiaz

50 years ago, Pakistan held its first general elections (on December 7, 1970). These were the first direct national elections to be ever held in Pakistan since its independence. These

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

This entire week, people in the economics space #econtwitter are going to be using @ASSA #ASSA2021, which is a huge annual conference for economists. If you're like me and forgot

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