#Economists

Economissive

Economissive

Grant Robertson today asked the Reserve Bank to factor in house prices.What that means is that the Govt has asked the Reserve Bank to increase unemployment to lower house prices.Terrible

Sylvester Equation

neoliberal_dad

Since Blackrock is big and mysterious and sounds threatening, and since Deese is an Obama guy who went to Blackrock, and he's up for a top policy job under Biden,

Nick Hanauer

NickHanauer

Long rant: So earlier today, I got into a spat over the $15 minimum wage with @JamesSurowiecki and @noamscheiber. Because this disagreement over whether there is a mechanical relationship between

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today's @bopinion post is about why developing nations are in big trouble -- both from coronavirus, and from the decline of the United States.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-03/covid-19-and-declining-u-s-pose-double

Starks☪️🇹🇩

MegaIntelIect

The Supremacy Of The Shari’a- A Thread The Shari'a Law has been a subject of inequitable prejudice for a long time, which we already know is false & illogical.However,

Ingrid Robeyns

IngridRobeyns

tonight 8 pm CET, Professor Steinberger on how we got addicted to cars, online and accessible to all! @JKSteinberger https://www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2021/how-we-got-addicted-cars Professor Steinberg starts by reviewing the data on climate chang

Peter Ganong

p_ganong

new paper on labor market & expanded UI benefits Tldr: spending more than expected, job search order of magnitude less than expected1) rise of repeat unemployment2) effect

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

I spend a lot of time looking in detail at abusive situations where tech plays a starring role: stalkerware, bossware, remote proctoring, etc. But nothing I'd read really prepared me

visa is AFK working on @introspectVV

visakanv

#nowreading Debt, by David Graeber David’s teaches anthropology at LSE. He’s written other books like “Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value”, “Fragments of an Anarhist Anthropology” and “Lost People: Magic

10-K Diver

10kdiver

1/Get a cup of coffee.In this thread, I'll show you how to do a DCF analysis.For those unfamiliar, DCF = Discounted Cash Flow. 2/Imagine you live in a small town.The

Tanja Hester 😷 BLM 🏳️‍🌈🌏

our_nextlife

Seems like a lot of folks could use a primer on economic stimulus, as well as "fairness" in our system.So let's talk about both.Economic stimulus was originated as a concept

Reinhard Schumacher

_RSchumacher

0\ I am starting a new, possibly never-ending, thread on history of mostly-economic thought places in Berlin. I also created a map which will link to this thread and which

Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

uk_domain_names

Debunking WTO, and what "trading on WTO terms" really means...As EU members, we participate in over 750 international treaties.Many relate to trade, enabling us to trade freely with the EU,

JALA

JournalAfLit

5 Africanist scholars (Moradewun Adejunmobi, Bhekizizwe Peterson, Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi, Tom Odhiambo &Adeleke Adeeko) responded to the question “Why wasn’t my article published?” from their positions are editors, reviewers & r

The Junglegym Queen (she/her)

junglegymqueen

Anyway, since my creepy stalker is still trying to defend his very problematic views on "overpopulation" without sufficient context or nuance, I'm gonna go ahead and discuss my views based

H i s t o r yK E

HistoryKE

#HistoryKEThread: Is History About To SAP Us Again?In 1963, after more than a decade’s episode of violent struggle for freedom, Kenya attained her independence. Then in 1991, roughly 28 years

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