#Economics

Rob Cottingham

RobCottingham

In which I argue that Star Trek may have saved countless lives in British Columbia. [thread] No question, the credit for BC’s curve-flattening COVID-quashing performance has to go first to

Anwesh Satpathy

anwesh_satpathy

Right wing just doesnt get nuance at all. Im exclusively talking about the most popular ones(Ben Shapiro&Vivek Agnihotri fans?). They confuse terms, make a strawman and argue against that strawman.

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

1. I appreciate the work MMT advocates have done to point out deficits are a stupid way to organize policy constrains. I especially appreciate @rohangrey and his work on institutional

Saloni Shah

SaloniShah101

The African Continental Free Trade Area will be opening next month, providing significant economic gains in the face of COVID. 30M people could be lifted out of extreme poverty &

😃 unspinthespin 😃

unspinthespin

Chrystia Freeland is a rubber stamp for Mark Carney. She is completely unqualified for the job........but this is what Trudeau wants. He uses identity politics to place people in positions

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

George Reisman

GGReisman

Who Are the Supporters of Slavery? Ever since the defeat of the Nazis in WWII, Marxists/Socialists have clearly been the world’s leading advocates of slavery. For elaboration, see Chapter 8

Cyprien Batut

BatutCyprien

A thread about Economics as a discipline, Academic painting in XIXth century France and Bourdieu, and what the recent events within Economics may mean. 0/n What if I told you

Koshiek Karan

iamkoshiek

Here are 20 of my best threads from 2020 covering personal finance, entrepreneurship, economics & finance, investment banking ++ useful resources.Massively grateful to everyone who took time out to read,

Sascha O. Becker

essobecker

German division and reunification and the “effects” of CommunismSome caveats from f/c JEP paper with @LukasMergele & Ludger Woessmann @ifo_Education https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/manage/publications/4

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

#WereRemovingADictator

LungeloN_Zulu

A bit of insomnia. Might as well do a thread on MMT. The difficulty with this expansionary monetary theory, is that the pool of country's that can borrow in their

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

H/t @ChelseaHerps: If you visit Google's front page today, you may see a Black guy with glasses. If you're an economist #EconTwitter, you probably know who this is. If not,

naty

orangeasm

reading historical power imbalances / assaults is fundamental to understanding everything. reading them as univocal, essential, impenetrable lack, is destructive you cant be naive about the design of things. but

Deborah B. Solomon

deborah_solomon

I'm going to tell you a story about Henry Paulson: Henry Paulson Returns to Finance, to Run Climate-Focused Fundhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/business/dealbook/hank-paulson-climate-fund.html?smid=tw-share I covered him when he work

Mike Konczal

rortybomb

Politics aside, I'm not tracking Toomey's economics or the line he's drawing between monetary, credit, and fiscal at ZLB.Democrats expanding eligibility for these programs doesn't change their underlying economics; the

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