#Academics

Usha Lee McFarling

ushamcfarling

A for MLK day. A series of conversations I had with physicians for @medscape discussing, some publicly for the first time, on racisms and what it means and what it

Jens Boman

JensBoman

Imagine going about your life, when a virus develops into a pandemic. Suddenly the rulers of your country are like "We're going to let the virus infect us, don't listen

David Andolfatto

dandolfa

Excellent thread by @JoMicheII explaining core Keynesian dogma via Joan Robinson. This idea is important and worth understanding. However, the follow-up critique of competing dogma seems invalid (and unnecessary) to

John Smolenski

jsmolenski

So: It’s inexcusable that I didn’t post this last week, on International Violence Against Sex Workers Day #idevasw. I should have. But I want to post it now: my thoughts

Georgie Burg

Georgie_Burg_45

After 2 years recovering from a criminal trial to jail a paedophile, I’m thinking of rejoining the workforce.I’ve done an awful lot. Had things published. Lots.But I’ve learned businesses punish

Edward Ongweso Jr

bigblackjacobin

OK this will be a long ass thread of academic & journalistic work done this year on the gig economy, its labor & antitrust dimensions, and its financial elements. This

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.

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DesperadoBabu

Of a politically incorrect, firebrand, Hindutva leader from the Junglemahal. This is the story of Dilip Ghosh the MP from Medinipur & the State President of WB BJP. This is

Alicia Dennis MAKE WORKPLACES SAFE FOR #HCW

AliciaTDennis

A THREAD:Lessons Learnt From #PublichealthWe see the pattern globally over & over again of governments not taking a strong #humanitarian leadership stand & the devastation it causes a group of

ShriramKrishnamurthi

ShriramKMurthi

In his latest blog post, @guzdial makes a strong and appealing argument that one can't possibly disagree with. As so often happens with his blog, I have a counter-example. Usually

Scott Hamilton

DoqxaScott

Tragedy of the epistemic commons: A pseudo-problem? ( of 28)Ben Williams is concerned about the impact of ignorance on democracy. He describes a paradox between maintaining convenient false ideas versus

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

For people and businesses, money is scarce; for currency-issuing governments, it's not. The story that governments "spend our taxes" is obviously wrong: since governments are the SOURCE of money, it

Clint Jasper

clint_jasper

We are off and away with another episode of the Senate Select Committee, Multi-Jurisdictional Management and Execution of the MDBP! Brett Walker QC - says nothing (esp the flaws) he

Elizabeth Picciuto 🦃🍠🥧

epicciuto

DUNE 1984 is a paradigm case of a movie I love but which I would never call a great movie. It's fun and inventive and quotable. It's also awkward and

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

If the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine gains regulatory approval by Christmas, we can cheer the scientists for heroic work.But tough decisions lie ahead: Who should get the vaccine first?https://trib.al/RtnmyWd Pfizer expects to

Andrew Dean

andrewhdean

As much of the UK goes back into yet another severe lockdown and cancels Christmas, I'd like to remind you of the many Serious Business groups that said that New

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