#Incentives

JD Graffam

jdgraffam

I'm glad Twitter bought Revue because I own $TWTR and I think it’s a good long-term investment. This acquisition is shrewd, timed perfectly, and they’ve needed long-form content for a

Kelly Brown

rubiconcapital_

Sensational article appealing to emotions, claiming Toronto ICUs "struggling with younger C19 patients". The headline may have you think ICU is in onslaught with young kids. ICUs are challenged, but

Duncan McLaren

mclaren_erc

1/15 Today a group of 23 climate researchers published a myth-busting article on net-zero and offsetting in Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter (Daily News). https://www.dn.se/debatt/vilseledande-och-falska-myter-om-klimatkompensation/ In this thread

Noah Kaufman

noahqk

Here’s a terrific simple figure, from Carolyn Fischer, to help teach the difference between emissions pricing and standards.The RHS figure says price + benchmark. That’s what a (tradable) standard is:

Ben Golub

ben_golub

"Reductionist" (i.e., most economic) theories of collective action explain acts like voting by individual incentives, perhaps including "social" phenomena via payoff terms like social pressure or warm glow.A short thread

sMyle

MylesBorins

Time for a takeIf you cannot find a way to be compensated, recognized, or get some value out of your OSS contributions you should reconsider how you are investing

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

It’s a weekend, and I’m actually on holidays until August 17th, but I’m going to do a thread on the water disconnections in Nairobi RCT on Monday. I’ve already explained

Deniz Selman

denizselman33

Idea: The #NFL should determine the draft order based only on record in games played before a team is mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. (Thread) So as someone who

Madhukar

sinhamadhukar

Lot of people are talking about why the Indian apps did not win this market when TikTok and other Chinese apps were there. A short thread on that 1.

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update August 19: Pardon me, but sometimes we should stop midstream and ask WTF are we doing here?Colleges who have launched in person may want to do just that.

William Clare Roberts

MarxinHell

Thoughts on Adorno, exploitation, the bounds of agency, and control vs. domination.I think this bit in Adorno is of a peice with the Frankfurt School's anti-positivism, even if it is

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I'm enthusiastic about the prospect of cheap, fast, at-home paper strip COVID tests for daily proactive screening. To get the most out of them, we need to start thinking

Kmpec

K_mpec80

Thread:(1/xx) So everyone is talking about how @SushiSwap or @SwerveFinance are gonna kill @UniswapProtocol or @CurveFinance by draining liquidity from the original protocol via offering a "revenue-sharing-governance-token". (2/9)

David Schindler

DSchindlerEcon

This is a great piece discussing some of the problems plaguing our profession. I would add one small thought: Because our individual research production function depends heavily on the quality

Chris Kessell

THEChrisKessell

The people who say Messi isn't a great athlete are just as ridiculous as the people who say we need better athletes to play soccer in the US.Dude ran as

Karl Handscomb

karlhandscomb

Well, compared to nothing, this is something. But a short thread on why this is a terrible idea and the Government should make the £20/week boost permanent.https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1350370127397740544 First, it's a

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