#Economists

David Phillips

PhillipsEcon

I send a lot of mail and phone calls to public benefit recipients (sorry!). I don’t have much experience signing up. So, when I got mail for a means-tested program

Finshots

finshots

Are Humans innately trustworthy?Consider a game — You receive $100. You can either choose to keep it or offer it to a stranger. If you offer it to the stranger, the money

Rep. Mikie Sherrill

RepSherrill

THREAD: With 5 million cases of COVID and 163K Americans dead, Executive Orders that gut Social Security and Medicare and shift the UI cost to states don't cut it. Ignoring

Oyebola Okunogbe

oyebolaoo

Great thread by @danilaserra_eco on our conversation with Ben Olken, AEJ: Applied . Recording available online (scroll all the way down): https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/cswep/programs/resources/webinarsA few more points from th

Amit Patel

AmitBhupsPatel

I’m seeing a lot of people on the TL panic about the UK recession. There’s various things to consider and economists were definitely anticipating it. Please don’t buy the scaremongering

Michael R. Strain

MichaelRStrain

THREAD. For the economy to be in the same place it was in this time last year, tomorrow's GDP number will have to show that GDP grew at a 50

Frank Cottrell-Boyce

frankcottrell_b

But these people are in power. Why? Because zealous ideological conformism. Ideological conformity has hollowed out this cabinet’s human resources in the way that covert privatisation has sucked out NHS

Jeff Booth

JeffBooth

1) My wish! - that policy makers (on both sides of the isle) economists and major media would "actually" debate the merits of Deflation on a first principles basis instead

GhoseSpot

SandipGhose

Problem is the blind polarisation among the upper-crust - who refuse to see anything good in #Modi. Many had forwarded to me the clip of an MP criticising #PMCaresFund hailing

Fabrizio Zilibotti

FabrizioZilibo1

Lot of talk about mistakes of Italian authorities in the COVID crisis. Some were important (no red zone in Bergamo, reluctance to lockdown Milano, errors in some hospitals). But Italy

Ely Kearney

ElyWKearney

Because just one opinion would be insufficient...1 like = 1 out-of-the-box political opinion that will start an argument/lose me friends.I'll go until either I run out, get bored, or my

Simon French

shjfrench

The one area that incentives-based modelling of labour retention struggles with is "insider theory". Whilst furlough will have weakened this, it will still be an important determinant of retention even

rathin roy

EmergingRoy

An imp. Lesson for policy economists. Data driven predictive procedures that may( and I’m a known sceptic) that may work in BAU do not work now. 1/n.https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/coronavirus-case-counts-are-meaningless/ Inductive procedures: A

Doug Campbell

TradeandMoney

Suppose the government makes huge investments in building a respirator factory, an N-95 factory, and large scale testing capacity. Then, next month, the virus mutates, or a miracle cure is

Ben Harris-Roxas 🌊

ben_hr

My son’s been writing a speech on Aneurin Bevan that he has to give tomorrow. Hearing a nine year old talk about why free universal health care is a fundamental,

David Hundeyin

DavidHundeyin

This is an issue I have with many highly skilled professionals, but with doctors in particular. And before anyone comes at me, my own brother is also a doctor and