#Economists

George Selgin

GeorgeSelgin

Thread: It's tempting to think that Carl Menger's famous theory of how money can spontaneously emerge from a state of barter supplies a basis by which BTC might displace the

Margot Sanger-Katz

sangerkatz

It's open enrollment season for health insurance. Every year, I try to write a piece to give people advice about how to shop for health insurance. Here's this year's version:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/upshot/health-insur

Blair King

BlairKing_ca

There are a lot of misconceptions about what the Canadian Energy Regulator said in their Energy Futures Reporthttps://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/canada-energy-future/2020/canada-energy-futures-2020.pdfIn particular activists have be

Jon Boeckenstedt has not been pardoned

JonBoeckenstedt

Thread: I bet you're wondering what's going on in the mind of your friendly local EM or admissions/FA professional.So follow along. There are no reliable trends. We have anecdotes. Harvard

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Today in @thebookseller - the UK's trade magazine for the bookselling industry - I published "Inaudible," in which I unpack my reason for foregoing hundreds of thousands of dollars by

Zack Polanski 💚

ZackPolanski

Thank you everyone for your solidarity in the boycott against anti-Semitism.Now we're back, I want minority voices to be amplified - not silenced.Today I'll be tweeting out Jewish artists, musicians,

Resist the Hologram - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread – More Tidbits from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity1. Land of the UnfreeHere is the latest list of states that have “entirely” or “mostly” shutdown their economies. 1A. We

Buddy Wells

BuddyWells1

⁦@RonakGopaldas⁩ and other critics of proposed policy of using the SARB to reduce interest payments by our gov & private sector, & fund productive growth, base their criticism on the

Ben Serrurier

benserrurier

I've learned a lot about the natural gas system during the ERCOT crisis and am appreciative of industry folks shedding sharing their expertise. Those same folks don't always have an

Barry Ritholtz

ritholtz

Whenever you see anyone saying "Today, the market did XX" what you are getting is their personal view. The sell off is because Biden is doing well? The incumbent has

Ben Casselman

bencasselman

U.S. payrolls rose by 4.8 million jobs in June as employers brought back furloughed workers.Key caveat: This data was collected in mid-June, *before* the recent surge in cases.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/business/stock-market-today-c

Aleksandr Bulkin

MrSumfing

To me this incessantly boring fight between two camps that are both quite wrong, shows only one thing - that there is complexity under the rug, and quite a lot

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

A new study suggests Trump’s campaign rallies had a huge impact on COVID spread. I think uses a pretty reasonable method but the validity of the conclusions depends on how

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

I've been a freelancer - a contractor - for most of my life, but I've also been a salaried employee and an hourly employee and there is a significant difference

Lorraine 🤔☮️💟

Lorraine451

Scott Morrison’s department & his political office have REJECTED freedom of information requests for access to taxpayer-funded research undertaken by Jim Reed, a long-term researcher for Liberal party pollster Crosby

Ben See

ClimateBen

Scientsts: global warming of 3.2C is* hard to survive* hard to prevent* likely by 2090* possible by 2070* plausible by 2050* just one of many existential threats that mean a

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