#Economists

oh no what will we do without price theory (possibly the worst course I ever took, in retrospect) Oh my god this article is a amazing—a treasure trove for me
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alarmism vs denial in Switzerland...orsome observations on the Swiss COVID responsea monster thread... Quick preamble on "why": I have been monitoring the Swiss response for 2 reasons: 1. The Swiss
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The Federal Reserve ("Fed") and Treasury have been lowering interest rates, running bigger deficits, increasing debt, and printing money at an increasing pace for decades. Thread . . .1/ One
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So @Sen_JoeManchin @SenAngusKing @SenatorCollins don't know what they are talking about. Even one of President Trump's key economists has come out in favor of this #COVID19 plan. Most in public
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1/9This is a good paper (and good thread) documenting the strengthening in recent years of creditor rights in sovereign debt. The authors point out, for example, that the share of
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Disappointing article in the Economist about antitrust.https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2020/08/08/what-more-should-antitrust-be-doing It only reports the rather populist debate between "Chicago school" style libertarians,
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Good review of China’s local government debt problem. Economists Yin Jianfeng & Wang Jiangjiang suggest it could turn into a “European-style” debt crisis as periphery gets into deeper trouble (though
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Right, let’s do this. Joan Robinson on investment and saving in 10 tweets or less. 1/ By investment is meant an addition to real capital ... This use of the
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"Of course no one in academic macroeconomics is publishing theory papers that literally just shout “Give people money!"." ~ @Noahpinion PS I have journal published macro research, some a decade
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More meticulous, clever & hugely helpful work (in the main) from @JamesSmithRF and @resfoundation team yesterday.But found the logic on consolidation -- and the rationale that gets to £40bn in
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"Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? And what can we do to use this global opportunity for green growth?" by @MaxCRoser https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth "Just 10 years ago it wasn’t
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People who think minimum wage is just an inevitably controversial topic in politics & economics should spend some time studying the U.K.Tl;dr. UK used to be like the US back
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Horses that reportedly got traded today: Repubs demanded tax break for corporate meal expenses ("three martini lunches"). Dems agreed, in exchange for expanded tax credits for low income families &
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Thread. This report represents everything wrong with how economists approach social problems and especially racial justice. I have tweeted before about the general problem with technocracy. But this report really
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I know @deanbaquet & @katiekings can't control @tomfriedman, but his arrogance, frank stupidity in continuing to quote @DrDavidKatz's bad advice is stunning. 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/opinion/trump-coronavirus.html?ac
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Last week, the largest organized strike in human history shut down India. 250,000,000 people struck against Indian PM Narendra Modi's neoliberal reforms to the agricultural sector.https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/3/india_protests_mo
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