#Economists

Business Insider

businessinsider

The rich keep getting richer: Billionaires made enough to pay for everyone’s vaccine during the pandemic, while workers lost $3.7 trillion. How did we get here? As stocks plummeted

Thinkr

prof_think

Law of Unintended ConsequencesHave you ever made a decision that was swift, decisive, and perfect for addressing the problem in front of you... only for it to backfire in a

Diane Schanzenbach

dwschanz

.@davidbeckmann thanks for asking! Thread to follow on how I'm thinking about the recent trends in #FoodInsecurity in light of this week's @JasonDeParle NYT story.https://twitter.com/davidbeckmann/status/1277055465600532480 Congres

Michael Grunwald

MikeGrunwald

My book on the Obama stimulus had a bunch of stories about @RonaldKlain, who managed it really well in his sane, efficient, beleaguered way. Some are very relevant for his

Misha Werschkul

mishaanne

Hey #waleg: Remember, keeping money flowing to our schools, to public employees like social workers, child care workers and parks employees, and to economic assistance for families experiencing hard times

ayush singh

ayush_singh98

No institution has done more to emancipate the Dalits and destroy casteism than free-market capitalism. Let's cut the rhetoric and talk about facts and numbers.A thread -https://twitter.com/surajyengde/status/1347840104157634562?s=20 Si

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

We added 1.8 million jobs in July, but our jobs level remains in absolute crisis—we lost so many jobs in March and April that we are still 12.9 million jobs

Ryze

joinryze

In 1734, Richard Cantillon— the most important economist you've never heard of, was mysteriously murdered and his house set ablaze.286 years later, his work explains why taxpayers get $600 while

AEA Data Editor

AeaData

A note on reproducible GIS by economists: it's mostly absent. Here are some tips. Reproducibility means that the inputs and methods can be repeated by a (somewhat) knowledgeable person. For

Wulad 🇪🇷

DeqiWoldeMikel

18 yrs. It took EPLF 18 yrs from inception to liberation. 1973 - 91, EPLF - birthed from 3 splinter ELF groups - moulded into a highly progressive, egalitarian front

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID election eve update: I want to share a number of conversations & scenarios I’ve been having. 1/ First of all I don’t know a scientist, a civil servant, a

Taylor Pearson

TaylorPearsonMe

For my next trick, I will now attempt to summarize @ole_b_peters very insightful paper in @nature : The Ergodicity Problem in EconomicsAt the risk of being hyperbolic, I think it

DSA Communist Caucus

DSACommunists

We need to take seriously the political economy of our moment: an age of relentless economic stagnation. Mainstream economists call this "secular stagnation" and Marxists describe it a number of

Philipp Heimberger

heimbergecon

Dutch prime minister Rutte and other "frugals" continue to use distorted images of Italy and Southern Europe to water down the EU recovery fund. Here are seven ("surprising") facts about

Karl R. Rábago

RabagoEnergy

My thoughts on cost shifts: First, we should speak clearly about potential vs. actual cost shifts. Second, the implication is that a cost shift is an unfair transfer of a

Jonas Bordo

jonasbordo

A slow moving crisis is happening, folks. 12 million #renters will owe an average of $5,850 in back rent and utilities by the end of the year. This is the

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