#Economists

David Rodenhiser

drodenhi1

My #thread summary of this new paper: ‘Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review’ @Ldnontmayor @st3v3turn3r @ElizabethPeloza @MohamedMOSalih @shawnwlewis @jesse_helmer @MaureenPCassidy @JoshMorganLDN @AnnaHopkins11 @ArielkeK @Heal

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Happy #BookBirthday to @StephanieKelton on the publication of her long-awaited "The Deficit Myth," a book that could NOT be more timely in this moment of massive structural unemployment and trillions

Justin Podur

justinpodur

I spent some time in a youtube how-to-get-rich rabbit hole (how I got there is explained in a podcast below) and am using it as a pretext to write down

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

It took decades after the passage of America's landmark antitrust laws - the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act - for trustbusting to occur in earnest, and what spurred the

Amir Pars (Dogs over People)

AmirPars_

THREADI will lose many friends over what I'm about to say.I will possibly be called a racist or even a white supremacist (even though I'm a brown man, who's been

bearistotle

gnrosenberg

Epidemic Illness, Animal Agriculture, and the History of Quarantines in the United States: A Thread One frustrating bit in GOP opposition to increasing unemployment insurance was the idea that if

Michael Andersen

andersem

Happy 2021!I wrote about one of the best ideas of 2020. From the #YangGang to @mayorsforagi to stimulus checks to @MacSmiff's late-night faceoff with @tedwheeler, everybody was somehow talking about

David R. Agrawal

DavidRAgrawal

How do local governments set policy in the presence of mobile factors, spillovers, and information flows? For answers, see our article "Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics" (w/ @WilliamHHoyt and

Mel Conway

conways_law

MEMOTO:My peers in journalism and the social sciences(e.g., @anelsona @sarahkendzior @carolecadwalla @adamgopnik @craigunger @TimothyDSnyder @RBReich @profcarroll)FROM:Someone who earned advanced degrees in physics and mathematics 60 years

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: December 14, 1945. The House passed what would become the Employment Act of 1946 once Harry Truman signed it. Let's talk about this watered down

Zack Cooper

zackcooperYale

How do you reduce health spending?We are launching a new project - ‘1% Steps for Health Care Reform’. We're working with leading health policy scholars and the goal is harness

mmatigari

matigary

Thread: Land Reforms 1/ The term BANANA REPUBLIC was popularized locally by @ProfJNMoyo as minister of info from 2000-4. Moyo’s refrain was “Zimbabwe is not a banana republic.”I agree

Scott Santens 🧢🏄‍♂️

scottsantens

1/ THREAD: As someone who's been researching and writing about #UBI since 2013, I can tell you that @SteveForbesCEO just expressed a ton of assumptions that are either a complete

Scott Ferguson

videotroph

A thread on what #MMT has to say re: small, non-hegemonic or so-called "developing" countries, a vital topic for any truly global & decolonial political economy. @FadhelKaboub has been working

Hetan Shah

HetanShah

‘Epidemics are social as well as biological phenomena.’ My @nature piece on the importance of social science and humanities in tackling our big global challengeshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00064-x Very helpful crowd sourc

Fabiana Cecin 🏴 🌹

fabianacecin

Basic Income is not about economics.Basic Income is a legal method for the abolition of servitude. It is a political construct.Money is a legal human rights document. It is not

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