#Economists

Jason Hickel

jasonhickel

There's a new book making the rounds, "More From Less", by tech guru @amcafee. McAfee argues we can have indefinite GDP growth while *reducing* our ecological impact. For evidence, he

Max Kennerly

MaxKennerly

Lloyd's a billionaire and Senior Chairman at Goldman Sachs. He could easily employ a team of actuaries, biostatisticians, economists, epidemiologists, hospitalists, infectologists, and statisticians to price out various cost/benefit sce

Claudia Sahm

Claudia_Sahm

hey “serious economists” ya’ got fans cc @paulkrugman this thread made me chuckle ... PS @WhiteHouseCEA I’m happy to come on staff again, you all matter now and I’m

John Cawley

cawley_john

In thinking about this year's #EconJobMarket, one analogue is what happened during the 2008-09 financial crisis. A new memo by our AEA committee on the job market explores this: 1/7https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/communications/memo-aug-11-2

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

From the very beginning, nations used corporations for power and profit until corporations turned a corner and reversed the process, transforming nations into support vessels, making use of their militaries,

John

udarnik

This is 100% wrong. Rare events with significant health impact regularly result in FDA clinical holds, temporary restrictions in distribution, or even permanent withdrawal. The FDA is more apt to

Ben Jones

bfjo

Here is a new JEP piece on the rise of research teams, with messages for economics. The short story is: #1 Research teams have big benefits. Coauthored papers have increasing

Alexander William Salter

alexwsalter

.@JonahDispatch, I appreciated your remarks on common-good conservative policy proposals on your podcast. But I worry you’ve missed the mark. You point to Hayek’s arguments about the informational role of

sushant sareen

sushantsareen

The basic problem with this govt is that it has no idea about how to run the economy. It depends upon babus to make the most convoluted and complicated policies

The Unfinished Owl

UnfinishedOwl

Obviously Corey's first obligation is to himself and his business. I agree with that! And I don't think there's *anything* wrong with it. That's how it's supposed to be.https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/13908113343384

Heather Timmons

HeathaT

Art Laffer is being floated as head of a new task force to "reopen" the US economy. He spoke to @annsaphir about what he'd do:https://reut.rs/2JSkJ69 Related: You CAN'T reopen the

Frank K Tumwebaze,MP : Psalms 124 : 1-8

FrankTumwebazek

Hi @newvisionwire in your agriculture features like the ones always written by Joshua Kato, I request that u help Pioneer farmers with simple agribusiness guides. E.g what input costs do

🦗New Free Soil Party

FreeSoilAndrew

Since the Neoliberal Subreddit twitter has deigned to dunk on me for my monetary and banking views, it's time for a thread of indeterminate length! As to the question of

Daniel Njaga

dnjaga1

Ndii has in the past accused Raila of laundering Uhuru corruption. In principle, he is doing the same. He is using his national and international professional esteem to launder sleaze

Women in Statistics and Data Science

WomenInStat

I’m going to begin today with a bold claim: Being an applied statistician is a lot like being an ethnographer. I say this both based upon years of experience working

Peter G. Klein

petergklein

The responses to Jim's tweet illustrate a problem with the way most economists use the term monopoly, to mean *any* deviation from perfectly competitive general equilibrium. "Monopoly power" in this