#Economists

A year ago, I did a thread on my efforts to diversify my source list. I tracked the race and gender of my sources again this year. In the interest
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Great new study out by @NeumarkDN and Peter Shirley @nber. This should change the current debate about the minimum wage effects since it gives a very even handed account of
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The government's decision to allow Ayurveda practitioners to perform surgery is actually only the latest in a long line of subversions. And the thing that has been subverted over and
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A mathematical mind works in reverse: a matrix is a special case of a tensor, a vector a special case of a matrix.In probability, those NonRussians who start from special
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Two weeks apart in two democracies. Two monuments to democracy breached. Two capital city’s police attacked. This is what fake news, conspiracy theories and religious radicalization wrought.This is hard for
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As an emerging researcher, who identifies as Ghanaian-American, I think it's important to add to the discussion to talk a little bit about how I feel about research [in general]
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The second bit IMO is wrong (OLG).And the first bit is the wrong question to ask.It is better to ask instead: "How should we organise public finance so we do
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There seems to be a prevailing narrative from non-Black people that Black women are not....women. Where did this come from? #asktwitter "Women and minorities" is a phrase that fundamentally ignores
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Will be tweeting about the @CFPB symposium on cost-beenfit analysis for the next hour #regulations opening question (in so many words): CBA? good, bad, worth it? Howell Jackson says it's
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Americans are currently living through the worst stretch of the pandemic. Many family budgets & small businesses are at their breaking point. It’s time for Leader McConnell to sit down
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Last year I published a book on Malthus and Limits. Let me explain what I argued, and how it is relevant to current debates where the name of Malthus and
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Oil price crash. What does it mean? Will the Global genie be unleashed?Does the much awaited #USDollarCrash will happen now? It is certainly pointing towards that. Are we prepared? 1/n
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Hot take: Bentham is seriously underrated by libertarians. Part of the problem is that economists don’t read history, and philosophers who do know Bentham mainly by his terrible efforts at
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It's been a big year for news, and never has @ConversationEDU's mission been more important – to inject expert analysis into the news cycle.We asked our editors to reflect on
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Yesterday @PIDEpk arranged an excellent discussion on exchange rate functioning in Pakistan. Led by @nadeemhaque and other economists, there seemed to be almost universal consensus that that FX should be
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Thread: Recent Study On Social Conditions & Political Divides in Pakistan.French economists have analyzed the polls data at @WIL_inequality since 1970 to 2018 Elections. It has discussed the fall &
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