#Economists

Nuwan I. Senaratna 🤔

nuuuwan

On #Astrology 1/4 My attitude towards astrologers has mellowed over the years. I've realised that their purpose is not to provide truth. Instead, to provide certainty; which most people value

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

One of the most important global economic institutions, The Federal Reserve System, which sets interest rates and determines govt funding has virtually NO Black Economists in its ranks cc @jeannasmialek

Jeffrey P. Snider

JeffSnider_AIP

Larry Summers really stepped in it when he questioned why the govt would think about 'giving' Americans $2000 instead of $600. That wasn't really the problem, though that's what got

(((E. Glen Weyl)))

glenweyl

I am grateful to @slatestarcodex for taking the time to respond to my critique of technocracy. There is a lot there to respond to and in general I think the

Brian Callaci

brian_callaci

A frustration I have with academic economists sometimes is I really don't think the profession fully understands what "fighting for better jobs" entails. We've seen what Amazon does to workers

Andrew Watt

AndrewWattEU

Three v smart, well-meaning liberal economists thinking how to get more people to report a positive test to the (German) Corona app. (Few do.) If you read German , but

🔰🌐🏳️‍🌈 🧦 Chief Georgist Shill 🧦🏳️‍🌈🌐🔰

BlueRepublik

EVERY. TIME. https://twitter.com/NLRG_/status/1338622300858552322 this is a good thread by @ben_golub but I'd also like to make clear that Peters is very much a crank, and is using an extremely deceptive

Claudia Kemfert 😷

CKemfert

Very exciting discussion and very exposing! Thank you for making this discussion possible @PluralEcon! Anna's question about climate change mitigation in particular was spot on! Some thoughts on this@BachmannRudi @PeterBofinger

Onye Nkuzi

cchukudebelu

"Socialism" emerged in response to "capitalism" - as a movement to improve the rights of workers. Early socialists fought to end child labor and instituted the 5 day work week

Randall Westgren

RWestgren

The foundation of entrepreneurship and demand theory is the value of goods. "We do not desire things because we grasp in them some mystical, incomprehensible essence "value"; rather we ascribe

Stephen Gordon

stephenfgordon

This exchange is at the heart of all those really bad takes based on 'economic' arguments that approximately no economist is actually making. Moral hazard is a thing, but it's

Dr. Jennifer Doleac

jenniferdoleac

#EconTwitter Friday night challenge: As an ode to Taylor Swift, highlight the economics concepts in each song on her new album.https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/1337531476930400264 Her older albums are fair game too, why not

TanRusty

LongIslandIcyT

I’m sorry but this is gonna take more than 1 tweet.In 2001, two (Stanford/Chicago) economists published a paper stating that d reason for decline of crime rate in USA by

Dani Rodrik

rodrikdani

First, Economics is clubby. While good research does get recognized, the ability to produce it depends on networks. If you don’t start with the networks in place–a PhD from a

Ari Paul ⛓️

AriDavidPaul

Biggest thing to watch in the macro world is the 10 year treasury yield. All else equal, rising yields crush basically all risk asset prices, and imo, the single biggest

F a n t a T r a o r e

TheFantaTraore

A quick thread for #EconTwitter enabling DEI given @jeannasmialek's latest piece. I was one of the few Black RAs at the DC Fed, and the experience at first was very

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