#Economic

Claire Lehmann 🚀

clairlemon

'Cancel culture' is of course a cultural issue. But it's also an industrial relations issue. People are losing their jobs in industries where there's an oversupply of labour (academia, arts,

Ed O'Keefe

edokeefe

And/but... unfavorable views of Dr. Anthony Fauci among conservatives have more than doubled since last month, new @CBSNewsPoll finds. MORE FROM THE POLL: A large majority still prioritizes staying home

Luke Murphy

LukeSMurphy

Today @IPPR's Environmental Justice Commission launched it's interim report calling for a new approach to tackling the climate and nature crisis - one that is faster, goes further and is

Max Jerneck

MaxJerneck

Thread on why I think the economic sociology of competition is needed to explain the East Asian growth miracles: As economic sociologists emphasize, firms don't like to compete, so they

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

yarbatman

1. Today, @BourseBazaar + @MEI_NUS launch a new edited volume that examines Iran's bilateral relations in Eurasia through six essays by six superb analysts. Here's the big claim: It is

Abraham Newman

ANewman_forward

Thread/This is how globalization will unwind. Trump administration runs nationalist economic agenda over global economic networks. Not only imposing export bans but manipulating global supply chains.https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/03/

AlanDownunder

AlanDownunder

Any ideas why Nine wouldn't publish my following comment on this piece? />2https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/we-ve-mortgaged-our-children-s-future-to-protect-health-of-ageing-parents-20200414-p54jny.html It is tellingly observed that &qu

Justin Guay

Guay_JG

Voluntary corporate 2050 net zero targets as something to be lauded in climate land bother me. A few reasons 1) The average tenure of a corporate CEO is ~

Eric Harvey

ericdharvey

People are rightly taking issue with this particular graf from the Billboard piece on the PWR BTTM guy. I think it's important to understand how reputational economies function very differently

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Here's my post on today's Econ Nobel Prize:https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-12/economists-are-starting-to-think-like-engineers?sref=R8NfLgwS 2/As my colleague @skominers wrote, this prize is well-deserved!https:/

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mnshzz

Opportunities out of #coronavirus that must not be missed @narendramodi We are rescuing college kids from all over the world because we have failed to add sufficient capacity. Capacity hasn’t

Eldon Katz 🌹

eldon_katz

Is democracy even possible under capitalism? I'm tired of shouting into the void about how all the empirical evidence makes it clear that the results we're getting aren't what the

Lauren Bauer

laurenlbauer

The Joint Economic Committee Hearing, “Connecting More People to Work” will be starting now. Watch here: https://youtu.be/1VGkeop_XLI #FutureOfWorkers .@SenatorHassan just entered @hamiltonproj "Labor Force Nonparticipation: Trends, Causes,

Governor Brian P. Kemp

GovKemp

This lawsuit is on behalf of the Atlanta business owners and their hardworking employees who are struggling to survive during these difficult times. (1/4)https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1283881619808559117 These men and women are doing

fahmie_isz

FahmieIsz

SINCE independence, Malaysia has had three periods of major economic shocks.Thread 1. Commodities shock in 1985/86Malaysia’s overall export price index fell 30% as tin and palm oil prices plunged. Malaysia

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

A few comments on this story.https://twitter.com/dphinnemore/status/1300522837422362624 Concentrating on this passage. 1. The first problem with the UK spokesman’s line is that it ignores economic reality. The UK’s size & geography