#Economists

Mint

livemint

Most people saved money as cash or cash-like liquid instruments rather than in long-term deposits or investments which offer higher return, the latest YouGov-Mint-CPR Millennial Survey shows#MintPlainFacts by @ankita_barthwal, Satyam

LSE Inequalities

LSEInequalities

Welcome to 'Wealth Inequality Across the Globe' With Professor Li Chunling, Professor Louis Chauvel, Sventlana Mareeva, Professor Celi Scalon, Professor Kwang-Yeong Shin and @MikeSav47032563 The theme today is to understand

MindSkills:

GeorgeSilverman

1/ https://twitter.com/CarlHunterson23/status/1329547363959058435?s=20Most importantly, how do you answer such a question? By what mental processes (MindSkills)? First, notice that@CarlHunterson2 is following his curiosity and actually aski

guynewey

guynewey

Finally got round to finishing 'Capitalism without Capital' by @stianwestlake @haskelecon. I cannot recommend it enough. One of those books that changes the way you think about the world, and

Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche

CleoCZ

The @NEA organizes 2 sessions @ #ASSA2021 on "the History of African Americans in the Economics Profession" Here is a thread on existing historical resources. I started it for a

Chris Conlon

conlon_chris

A quick thread about current issues around markups. Many people have seen this figure, but there is still a lot of discussion around what it "means". Estimated markups appear to

Atif Mian

AtifRMian

What is saving?The number we "save" in our bank account out of the pay-check is just that - a number in a computerOur hope when we save is that the

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

I am an economist and I am very much not worried about this. 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/road-to-recovery/2021/02/17/unemployed-workers-retraining/ In the aftermath of any recession, when the unemployment rate is still elevated, *witho

Tim Harford

TimHarford

1/ What a difference a few weeks makes. In mid-December, I asked a collection of wise guests on my BBC radio programme How to Vaccinate the World about the importance

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

One of the last lines of defense against critiques of capitalism is that despite all of its flaws & shortcomings, at least capitalism fosters unprecedented innovation.But, as we will prove

Trevor

trevorjtweets

I mean look, Nate Silver did himself no favors with the tone of his tweets, but1) In basically all other policy areas, e.g. economics and foreign policy, we have no

Sophia Batchelor @NMA

brainonsilicon

So it’s Causality day at @neuromatch - a day many of us have been looking forward to - and between the tutorials and Q&A I thought a might be

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

It’s really the folks in their 20s and 30s, the generation between X and Z, we should spare a thought for: the Millennials.Boy, do they keep getting shafted https://trib.al/QaFKxfu It

Tom Sasse

tom_sasse

With Xmas cancelled for many & all eyes on a new variant, we have an @instituteforgov report out on the way govt has used science advice in the crisis. Ministers

Keegs 🏳️‍🌈

LittleKeegs0

Might as well respond to this article that's been going around:https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/01/the-only-thing-worse-than-a-nimby-is-a-yimby Hey, I'm right here!Anyways, I've seen this confusion around many things. A simpl

Travis (not a Cylon) Kimmel

coloradotravis

Let's imagine for a moment that I am the democratically elected God-Emperor of a medium sized country called Travistan (the people insisted we change the name).And that we have a

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