#Economists

Ben Williamson

BenPatrickWill

Bit of a rant last night about the way an economist's gaze has interpreted education in terms of "learning loss" this last year. Lots of reasons to worry about what

Mark Packard

mdpackard

What's different about the 'Austrian' school of economics? Perhaps the most fundamental difference is a belief in subjective, rather than objective, rationality. But what does this mean? [A thread] Homo

Dave Jamieson

jamieson

We recently performed a diversity review of sourcing in our stories. As a labor reporter I found a dichotomy I'm trying to address. Workers in my stories: Very diverse, disproportionately

Goldy

GoldyHA

1/ Thought I'd take a moment to expand on Rep. @RoKhanna's comments questioning the credibility of the new CBO minimum wage forecast. He is correct in that CBO economists have

Francisco Pérez

platanomics

Just re-read Charles W. Mills’ “The Racial Contract.” I first read it 15 years ago and it's better than I remembered. I’m struck by how much of Mills’ critique of

Peter Young (The Austrian)

TheAustrian3

To understand economic phenomena we must analyse human action, rather than material objects and their properties.Inanimate objects are dead matter. It is human reason shaping humans’ actions that rearranges matter

Ben Schneider

benmschneider

Future of Academia Thread This is a weird year from a couple of degrees to the historical side of the split between economics and history. On one side, talented young

Ronnie Stoeferle

RonStoeferle

I am currently re-reading some chapters from von Mises' masterpiece Human Action... this is the part where Mises describes the "mathematical economists" (love that wording) and the crack-up boom: ...sounds

R. Vincent Pohl

rvpohl

A few thoughts on working in policy research as an Economics PhD. A thread that could be interesting for Econ JMCs in light of a shortage of academic jobs, but

Kate Davidson

KateDavidson

The vast majority of reader feedback on this story falls in one of two camps: Employers who say economists are wrong, because they can’t get their employees to come back

Ben Golub

ben_golub

"Reductionist" (i.e., most economic) theories of collective action explain acts like voting by individual incentives, perhaps including "social" phenomena via payoff terms like social pressure or warm glow.A short thread

Dominika Langenmayr

D_Langenmayr

I promised a thread about my twitter experience when I reached 4000 followers. Here it is! Read if you want to know more about this econ professor’s twitter experience (and

Chris Becker

jcbecker93

I don’t know if I can go on in this field. I am lucky to have mostly avoided the harassment and abuse. On a personal level, my road has been

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

H/t @ChelseaHerps: If you visit Google's front page today, you may see a Black guy with glasses. If you're an economist #EconTwitter, you probably know who this is. If not,

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Concealcarrygrl

I don't have the time or the expertise to teach everyone why the president has done so well with this pandemic so I'm just going to scratch the surface. When

Ingrid H. Kvangraven

ingridharvold

Does economics need to be ‘decolonised’?@cacrisalves and I explore this question in our recent @EconObservatory article, based on recent discussions at @FestivalofIdeas.A lil thread https://www.economicsobservatory.com/economicsfest-doe

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