#Economists

Catherine Koebel

cmkoeb

Gun violence prevention advocates have done a disservice to everyone by failing to accurately describe the state’s role in creating interpersonal gun violence. First gun violence prevention is overrun

Health Nerd

GidMK

The authors of the Great Barrington nonsense have produced a website called "collateral global", claiming to document the collateral effects of COVID-19 lockdownsI thought I'd have a look at the

John McNally

johngmcnally

Procurement is one of those seemingly simple, but actually incredibly weird, policy areas to discuss because it is just structurally not a market. Policymakers think about efficiency & transparency as

Casey Millburg

cmillburg

81 yrs ago tonight, the extraordinary criminologist Edwin Sutherland gave a speech to the American Sociological Society that marked the start of a shift in what legal systems recognize as

Sewon Hur

sewonhur

What non-pharmaceutical policy tools do governments have to combat the COVID-19 public health and economic crisis?1/8#EconTwitter Mask mandates are a low-hanging fruit (yet to be adopted in all US states).

Trinh

Trinhnomics

The double Ds - demographic & debt - & how that leads to the triple Ds - DEFLATION.Ready? #demographics World population growth rates are expected to slow, w/ contraction in

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

EDUCATION.Distilling the conversation with @bryan_caplan hosted by @tylercowen 1) There has been a traditional separation between: + "liberal education" for free men, (liber), who didn't work for a living,

Anwesh Satpathy

anwesh_satpathy

Right wing just doesnt get nuance at all. Im exclusively talking about the most popular ones(Ben Shapiro&Vivek Agnihotri fans?). They confuse terms, make a strawman and argue against that strawman.

Alex Saunders 🇦🇺👨‍🔬

AlexSaundersAU

1/ Two years ago we released a documentary about structural problems in the Australian economy. At the time, the RBA was talking about raising interest rates. We predicted they'd go

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

daniel_dsj2110

A few passages that didn’t make it in to the recent pieces I wrote for the Chronicle:https://www.chronicle.com/article/beyond-the-end-of-history 1) If historians can say nothing about how history can enhance human life

Andrew Seal

andrew_seal

There's been some interesting pushback re: the periodization here. Isn't 1979 (when Culture of Narcissism was published) already in the neoliberal era? Or at least the "point of no return"

Tanja Maier

tanjamaier17

We have here in Austria female journalists & politicians (moms) who have more or less stuck with the line keep schools open at all costs, covid spreads in homes but

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

It now appears that infection numbers are worse than the “worst case scenario”. What does that mean and does this indicate a failure of the policies that the government has

350 Canada

350Canada

The Green New Deal is more popular than the #CarbonTax. A majority of Canadians want a full-scale mobilization to fight the #ClimateEmergency while putting people and communities first. Maybe it's

Colin Angus

VictimOfMaths

A propos of absolutely nothing, here is my number 1 top tip for improving your use of graphs in presentations:Hide the data, especially the interesting bits, at first.THREAD/ Unless you

Roaring Rudy Havenstein

RudyHavenstein

But the movies are 25% better so prices actually dropped.https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1085182359866146816 This is how economists actually think, and why CPI is way below the actual "cost of living."For kicks, print this

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