#Economics

Alec Stapp

AlecStapp

So much of life is pure luck, being in the right place at the right time.This is not that. Here are some other examples of tech visionaries:Aug 2006: Elon Musk

Peter Barnes

infinite8horizo

A reflection...What’s the difference between a journalist & a scientist?If you ask a journalist “what do people think” they run into the street with a camera and mike, and that

Joshua Loftus (defundNYPD.com)

joftius

Thread about activism and academic research (economics & political science in particular)There's a manipulation/intervention theory of causality, that causality is about what we could feasibly change through some hypothetical action

Paolo Abarcar

pabarcar

Our revised paper on nurse migration is finally out! We study whether the U.S's aggressive recruitment of nurses from the Philippines in the 2000s led to a "brain drain."https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/Abarcar_Theoharide

scott cunningham

causalinf

I had this thought today I’d never thought about before. I have all these subscriptions — NYT, Strava, Dropbox, 1Password, Netflix, etc. some are monthly, some are annual. Annual of

Olga Dryndova

OlgaDryndova

Short summary of political situation and latest trends in #Belarus (THREAD)1) Solidarity & self-organisation in society still highly present: crowd-funding for victims of repressions, solidarity chains/actions, humour as important solid

JW Mason

JWMason1

Predictions of rapid bounceback in output & employment after social distancing lifted, depend on no one having lost income in the meantime. If loss of income during quarantine period leads

Mighti Jamie. Independent Analyst.

MightiJamie

One lesson I have learnt is that your political beliefs and commitment to the struggle do not substitute your character. Those who believe they are on the right side of

Kate Fellows

KateHFellows

Thread 1/5Quite a day... And only 2 mentions of toilets! What I'm taking from today:I museum workers. Positive. Grounded. Reflective. Innovative. Inclusive. In a crisis, I want to be

Braggo

CryptoBrag

1)$HTR - approaching 1 exahash in hash rate. Why is this important and what does it mean? For starters here is general hash rate info:How is the hash rate measured?Hash

Prince Kropotkin

Prince_Kropotkn

Something I've thought about a bit. I'm no opponent of quality adjustment, but one issue is that you generally don't have the option of buying the lower cost items of

Maurice Rahmey

mrahmey

tl;dr pricing in creative impacts the type of customer you attractLast week, I mentioned how pricing/offer impacts the audience FB goes after.I want to share one example of a test

Chris Lawton

ChrisMLawton77

I've been doing some analysis on resilience and recovery for #nottingham for longer-form pieces later in the summer. First up, claimant count unemployment in Nottingham is up from 4.3% to

Z.A.E. 🧠 🧬

ZAEMINTER

Pay taxes?There's someone you should know about: The man who influenced tax codes with 𝑎 𝑛𝑎𝑝𝑘𝑖𝑛// A THREAD // Arthur LafferAn economist most known for his creation, the Laffer CurveWhich

Jelani Memory

Jelanimemory

1)After having pitched 100s of investors, I’ve heard this one too many time: “This would make a great impact investment.”Now let’s talk about that phrase “impact investment” for a bit.

George Yarrow

george_yarrow

1. 'Saving lives' sounds, as it is meant to, like a moral high principle, but, if you want to do that, best turn to God. Away from soteriology, what saving