#Economists

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JKSteinberger

So there is a kind of circular argument I want to expose. Neoclassical economists & neoliberal ideologues have successfully argued for a social consensus around economic growth on the basis

Clara Jeffery

ClaraJeffery

1/ I've watched (part of) Navalny's "Putin's Palace" exposé, and I suggest you do same. (It is subtitled.) It's half psychological profile/biography and half @60Minutes style follow the money report,

Ben Moll

ben_moll

When a small minority of loud economists attacks researchers from other disciplines, it makes us all look bad.And allows the media to pit economists against epidemiologists in this unhelpful way

Alexandre Truc

alxndr_trc

1/ Is economics insular to external influence? Is it becoming more interdisciplinary? We measured the ratio of extradisciplinary citations (COC) of economics and compared it to other social sciences and

iang

iang_fc

Angry economists!https://twitter.com/Nouriel/status/1331980212502978560v@Nouriel can't figure it out bc looking at the list of what a money is, Bitcoin doesn't tick off the boxes.What @Nouriel is missing is that… 1/9https://twitte

SonaliRanade

sonaliranade

The trouble really is that our security & policy establishment have never thought strategically about trade, employment, growth & financing of deficits.Nor do our economists understand that, given hegemony, trade

Ben Golub

ben_golub

Ok, my own answer to @JSEllenberg's question.Here are some important statements that come up in economics:"Nice estimators are consistent even in complicated models.""Nice financial markets are informationally efficient.&

Jeanna Smialek

jeannasmialek

Monroe Gamble was the @sffed first-ever Black research assistant. In 2018. That wasn't a one-off. Black economists and RA's are a rarity across the Fed system, I learned from data

miryam 🌸

fIowerfemme

Something very interesting I learned recently is that the big push for blander foods in America stemmed from a social reform movement led by Protestant, middle-class women. These women entered

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

The jobs report and the Biden plan: the plan is mainly NOT ABOUT STIMULUS: It's disaster relief to get us through the pandemic. It will, however, have some stimulative effect.

Chris Blattman

cblatts

it’s great that economists do lots of field work and interviews now. But think of the absolute sloppiest, terrible causal inference paper you can remember, from someone who doesn’t even

Ranil Dissanayake

scepticalranil

This is a subject dearly close to my heart: communicating economics to non-economists.Almost my entire career has been about this, through policy notes, teaching, speeches, presentations, emails, discussions over coffee

Fabrizio Venditti

F_Vend

As one of the authors of this paper let me take this occasion to add a few points on composite indicators of financial conditions (most of these points are valid

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/6Just before I saw this article I was re-reading (for the second time) Glyn Davies's 1994 history of money and came across this passage:"There are few things more impressive than

Do Marlay Ka Moonh

2paisay

Enabled by colonial Land Acquisition Act, one of the largest land transfers in the city’s history is underway. large tracts of ‘barren’ land are being acquired by the force of

Steph Cha

stephycha

I am part of an increasingly small percentage of college (and even smaller percentage of professional school) graduates who started adult life without debt because my parents paid my way.

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