#Economists

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

As you all know, I write A LOT (for different magazines and media outlets) on everything from economics to STEM to structural racism in those spaces.Inspired by the lovely @taylorcrumpton,

Binti Swahiliya

bintiswahiliya

I was listening to NPR the other day and they were presenting the work of an African American Economics researcher who linked lynchings and the Tulsa Race Massacre to the

Ben Casselman

bencasselman

The stimulus deal should be enough to avoid the immediate "cliff" that would have pushed millions into poverty and threatened to plunge the economy back into a recession. But it

Peter Gleick 🇺🇸

PeterGleick

A short thread about the recent claims by some "economists" & #climate skeptics that an 8°C rise in temperature would only cut GDP by 4%:First, it's complete nonsense. That large

Ankita M

muk_ankita

Thread: 5 years ago, as a young Masters student at the LSE, it was an honour for me to attend the annual Amartya Sen lecture. After the event, a big

Sonja Starr

SonjaStarr

1.Another tweetstorm! Economics is engaged in needed self-examination on race. I want to address one thread of this, germane to the policing discussion: the obsession with distinguishing “statistical discrimination” from

Griffin Carpenter

gwcarpenter

.@GeorgeMonbiot is extremely well-argued here but I have two main points of disagreement: 1) I think he makes the same price/value conflation that he criticizes, and 2) I think he’s

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/9While debt-to-GDP ratios already have a limited but very misunderstood use, it seems economists are finding bright new ways of misunderstanding them. Now we say that when nominal interest rates

Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

vivamjm

It might be worse than "economists warned about" but not worse than we mere (ex) Freight Fowarding/Customs Agents tried to warn of....Read"The reality of Brexit is much, much worse than

Chris Edmond

chrisedmond

A few people have suggested I should respond directly to Professor Foster's arguments on #qanda last night rather than just saying I was appalled.I thought the other panelists did an

David Lagakos

LagakosDavid

Walter Oi was one of the many great economists that made a lasting impression on me as an undergraduate student at Rochester.1/Nhttps://twitter.com/_gabrielunger/status/1278769575253901314 It is hard to forget Walter’s economic theory

Nick Hanauer

NickHanauer

1/4 Most people, especially academic economists, think that the controversy over the minimum wage is a contest over facts. It's not. It's a contest over power, status, and wealth. It

Daniela Gabor

DanielaGabor

almost quaint that IMF still holds onto 'human capital' to account for divergent growth performance, but then I read about Eastern Europe's 'success' story and am reminded of how destructive

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

Conservative economists are so embarrassing. You're almost 63 years old and you still believe in the invisible hand of the free market? Okay. Most of us outgrew imaginary friends before

Tom Hancock

hancocktom

Writing this assessment of how the Trump's administration's trade war with China produced few clear wins provided a chance to read through some of the academic research on what happened.

Scott Metzger

beermonkey

Got some thoughts I want to tweet out over the next few days before I give up on this website:1. Poutine is gross2. Golf is a hobby, not a sport3.

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