#Costs

Akshay Alladi

akshayalladi

Reforms often involves concentrated costs, diffused benefits. Also the benefits rarely have direct attribution. Politically that means they are a net loser. If a reform has unanimity it is often

Complex Nightmare

debatante

most european states systematically keep women out of workforce by not having a full day school system. kids are home at noon, every kid has a different afternoon schedule. lunch/afternoon

George Riddell

GeorgeMRiddell

1/ Quick thread. At the end of the third week of Brexit being "done", I can only say that I'm exhausted. Immediate pressures on companies who have been trading goods

S.A.L.T| Lawal 'Tayo

Lawatem

Criminals are rational.People tend to believe that criminals are irrational psychos who don't give a fig about logic - & morality. Trends from many countries, including Nigeria, say the exact

Sustainable Calgary

SustainableYYC

So - #yycbudget2021 talks are happening next week, and we’ve decided to make today “Hidden Costs Day”. Thread 1/ When it comes to budgets, it’s pretty common to talk about

Nearly Legal

nearlylegal

Now I am thoroughly, very much for finding an alternative to dumping the costs of build defects and cladding remediation on leaseholders of existing buildings, but I find this slightly

Scott Lincicome

scottlincicome

"The rise of the upper middle class" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-rise-of-the-upper-middle-class/2020/08/16/3aa1aea4-de60-11ea-b205-ff838e15a9a6_story.html For my fellow liberal arts majors & lawyers out there,

Alex Krüger

krugermacro

1/ A thread on bitcoin mining game theory.The Bitcoin network produces approximately 54,750 bitcoin a month in block rewards.Every month. 2/ Assume there are only two miners (A & B),

Mark O'Neill

marxculture

There has been some Twitter noise about the “cost" of the NHSX COVID Tracker being £11.8M.I say “cost" because it's not clear how it breaks down.What the noise made clear

Ben Alpers 🗽

Ben_Alpers

In order to evaluate the Whiggish narrative of racial equality as somehow immanent in the American Founding and this inevitably unfolding over the course of US history, we need to

Adam Uttley

adam_sobersauce

Free School Meals profiteering... A THREAD.1/ I’ve just seen the pictures from Chartwells and my heart sank. What an utter, utter disgrace. I used to be a Finance Director in

(((Christine Fair)))

CChristineFair

Back to India for minute. This is why India is not going to be a truly great power anytime soon. It cannot accurately assess its threat environment and over what

David Evans

DaveEvansPhD

I regularly spend time looking for papers on researchers' websites. I love it when a researchers' personal website...[short thread] ...has links to all the papers! You might be surprised at

Margueritta

Marguerittacb

CBDC & lebanon CBDC is a hot topic of conversation worldwide & the world’s future payment ecosystem may be comprised of multiple digital currencies But Most importantly, Digital currency derives

Carrie Cordero

carriecordero

I feel comfortable saying that nearly all of these individuals have done so at some professional risk and with serious consequences to long established professional and even longstanding personal friendships.

Ari Peskoe

AriPeskoe

FERC rejects complaint about MISO transmission planning that allocates all costs of “Baseline Reliability Projects” (BRPs) to the local IOU and therefore does not subject such projects to competitive development.

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