#Incentives

Thomas Hale

thomasnhale

As requested! I've tried to systematize some thoughts on how climate fits into the broader US-China relationship, along the lines of the vibrant discussion in the thread below, in a

Tom Sasse

tom_sasse

On the govt's decision to allow those areas that have vaccinated vast majority of groups 1-2 to move onto 3-4, @alexwickham mentions in Playbook MPs with concerns about 'postcode lottery'

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

1/n My @WSJ Op Ed: We must plan now for when Covid vaccine supply exceeds demand; and how we create incentives. It starts with setting up framework for making a

Good Jobs First

GoodJobsFirst

Recently @postandcourier published an opinion arguing the South Carolina Department of Commerce should keep subsidy information hidden from the public view. It contained several common misunderstandings and flaws. A thread:https://www.posta

Rob Fields

robfields

#Random: I like what @SubstackInc is doing in terms of giving writers a way to monetize their work. However, with folks starting to price their subs at $20/month, there's going

Lyall Taylor

LT3000Lyall

Chinese tech stocks are still priced like the govt is going to allow them to amass & exploit monopoly power with monopoly "takes rates" like in West. But China's hybrid

el gato malo

boriquagato

@foogatwo was kind enough to introduce me to a fun new CDC tool that tracks CARES act funding by hospitalone need not possess sherlock holmesian deductive powers to guess that

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

Should we pay people for getting infected? Should we increase fines for rule breakers? Incentives are key for controlling epidemic & getting it wrong can backfire. So far, the government

Osita Nwanevu

OsitaNwanevu

It seems pretty unambiguous to me that we're in the middle of a coup attempt. It also seems pretty unlikely to work. It's a bad situation in any case, and

Ben Pile

clim8resistance

Lots of media spin on the #carbonTax on meat and dairyThis short video explains the origins of that policy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mKV-PAKpR8 As I explain in the video, the climate assembly were not

André Staltz

andrestaltz

Social networks (communities and networks of friends) are significantly different to social media (global broadcast), although they may overlap in fuzzy ways.1/6 I realize that peer-to-peer such as SSB can

Jason Manning

sociologyWV

"I would have stood up against it!" Maybe, but more likely combination of overestimating one's own bravery, and lacking any real understanding of the pressures and incentives in place.https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/1

elizabeth bruenig

ebruenig

firing people for tweets creates perverse incentives, in that it signals to onlookers both that tweets are things that should produce dramatic reactions and that they can project those reactions

Ed Felten

EdFelten

CNN reports that officials plan to issue "vaccination cards" to people who get COVID vaccines. We need to be careful about how that is done. Some of the strategies are

Alex Tabarrok

ATabarrok

I have argued for delaying the second dose in order to hit the virus hard and get more people the first dose. Now epidemiologist @michaelmina_lab and @zeynep make the case

Catherine De Vries

CatherineDVries

Lots commentators tweeting about Rutte focus on him being driven by lack of trust in Commission to enforce etc. Maybe. As political scientist, I see his position as perfectly compatible

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