#Economists

radhika reddy

radhikalism

oh dear, Dr Bloomfield needs better comms advice. this messaging is highly counterproductive.strap in for a long thread about why this is an avoidable comms failure, and how it could

Dan Price

DanPriceSeattle

Compared to white people:*Black-owned homes devalued 23%*Black-owned property taxes 13% higher*Bank fees 2x higher for black customers*Black-owned biz closed at twice the rate in pandemic*Black people w/ NO criminal record

Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger?

HasBezosDecided

PART 9: THE DEATH OF THE COMMUNITYMy grandmother was a district nurse in a town in the Welsh Valleys called Aberbargoed. Here's what it looks like and where it is:

Amrita Bhinder

amritabhinder

Why Are India’s Farmers Protesting?Indian farmers have lately made international headlines. Rihanna, Susan Sarandon & Greta Thunberg have taken up their cause. Ozy, a glitzy Silicon Valley publication posed a

Sahil Kapoor

SahilKapoor

Reading now: "Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its…" by Ben S. Bernanke,… https://amzn.in/brA8jpn "We know from that long experience that the damage inflicted by financial panics is never limited to

Matt Notowidigdo

ProfNoto

Just under the wire again, but I continue my annual tradition -- my 10 favorite economics papers published in 2020, ordered alphabetically[Was pretty tough this year; might have to do

Sam Bliss

ii_sambliss

Mike Shellenberger's new book Apocalypse Never is an Amazon bestseller. @g_kallis and I have spent 5 years reviewing the science around the ecomodernist ideas presented and found that they are

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

As white-identity evangelicals circulate rumors that these are the End Times and Donald Trump is a holy messiah, people are asking for another go-round on exactly how we got to

gab.ai/murali

muralipiyer

My apologies for RTing this forbes article earlier.Except for the conclusion paragraph quoted below, rest can fully be skipped.The author talked to 35 people and tried to play politics instead

David Perell

david_perell

MEGA THREAD TIMEHere are 50 ideas that shape my worldview.These are my guiding principles and the light of my intellectual life. All of them will help you think better, and

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

Technically the insurers paid it, but, if we wanted to resolve this in a very simple straightforward technocratic way would be to mandate that individual police officers themselves have to

The Hoarse Whisperer

TheRealHoarse

...and we're off.A snark-filled live-tweeting of Commander Babyfingers in Pensacola.Settle in, for the biting commentary starts now... Donnie Duncecap has yet to arrive but Fox News is all a'titter.Why shouldn't

David R. MacIver

DRMacIver

One like = one* interesting book pairing* with an option to give up any time after 100 tweets (Not formally part of @threadapalooza, just a warm up exercise / fodder

Lachlan Carey

lachlanrcarey

1/ Since it itis the season of takes, home sickness, and unsolicited advice to the Biden administration, I felt the need to write about what can be learned from

David Neiwert

DavidNeiwert

1) Does racism and bigotry increase during economic downturns, and decrease during good times? The belief that racism and economics are deeply connected, and that broad economic solutions can dissolve

felix's gf (not clickbait)

felixvrse

thread of instances of the soviet union being imperialist lenin wrote a letter to armenian revolutionary shahumyan in 1913 saying that ”the russian language has undoubtedly been of progressive importance

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