#Economists

Jordan Weissmann 🗽

JHWeissmann

CBO just released its new $15 min wage analysis—adds $58B to the deficit, kills 1.4M jobs. Have to look at how they reach these numbers, but it's a bad blow

(((E. Glen Weyl)))

glenweyl

Despite the excellent explication by @planetmoney (https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/932048876/hacking-the-perfect-auction) I remain profoundly disturbed by the lack of follow-up on the issues around the spectrum incentive auctions: 1. Milgrom

New School for Social Research

NSSRNews

Many NSSR community members are deeply involved in #Election2020 . Meet three of them: Heather Boushey (@HBoushey) Teresa Ghilarducci (@tghilarducci) Kyle K. Moore (@KKM_Econ (1/4) Heather Boushey

Mike Berners-Lee

MikeBernersLee

1/13 This thread is my summary of the Cumbria coal mine case, laying bare the many flawed and bogus arguments that have been made along the way, and including links

Karen K. Ho (Doomscrolling Reminder Lady)

karenkho

the easiest way to diversify source lists is by aiming to talk to white guys last for almost every story •Ask PR people to connect you to non-white and female

Joe Weisenthal

TheStalwart

WATCH THE DATA COMING OUT OF TEXASFor the @Markets newsletter, I wrote about some of the indicators coming out of Texas that suggest economic activity might be rolling over already

Tommaso Valletti

TomValletti

Thread on research in economics & its linkage to policy.Recent top publications on hot competition policy topics, eg@jan_eeckhout & al on increasing margins@joseazar @martincschmalz & al on common ownership@cunningham_lbs @flori

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

Among the most pervasive lies about capitalism is how capitalism rewards workers.Capitalism does NOT reward:• Productivity• Value• Hard work, effort, sacrifice or duration of workAs we will prove, these lies

Daniel Howdon

danielhowdon

Gonna do a thread I'll occasionally update about things that may/should/may not be live issues in health economics post-COVID-19 because I think that, in every discipline, there's a lot to

Claudia Sahm FULL CHECKS NOW

Claudia_Sahm

“These caveats do not mean faster data should be ignored, but that we need to know its weaknesses while marvelling at its speed.” @ChrisGiles_ yes and yeshttps://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/366653da-fc7b-4f3d-bf2f-ef95dfc180

balajis.com

balajis

One of the more fascinating phenomena is people who think they understand economics that have never built a two-sided marketplace, coded a financial instrument, issued a digital currency, started a

Tim Harford

TimHarford

1/ My column today - is "first dose first" (and worry about second doses later) the right vaccination strategy?https://www.ft.com/content/915756b2-6f13-41fb-9491-a647817aa919 2/ A couple of points. First, mainstream opinion on thi

breakingthemarket

breakingthemark

I just re-read Bernoulli’s 1738 paper “Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk” which is the foundational paper of Expected Utility Theory.It’s AmazingIt’s so wildly different than

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

1. I'll explain what I mean here. I'm a Biden voter. But it is fundamentally dangerous that Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai are making policy over how we deliberate over

Donald Schneider

DonFSchneider

THREAD/ some thoughts on why I'm skeptical of the net lending (savings & investment imbalance) / corporate savings glut / 'financializaiton" discussion as it pertains to the decline of biz

Dr Catherine Haddon

cath_haddon

New report out this morning with @tom_sasse and @AlexNicest Science advice in a crisis. Govt benefitted from a system of science advice that adjusted extraordinarily under the circumstances.But it has

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