#Economists

Richard Owen

R1chardOwen

I want to write a little thread about the future.Not the immediate future because that's quite bleak but it does afford us a glimpse into what's going to happen over

Kim Weeden

WeedenKim

Some thoughts on this @BrankoMilan piece from the perspective of a sociologist whose work is economics adjacent. (I study income inequality & its sources, include rents; gender inequality in wages;

Jonathan Colmer

JonathanColmer

#econtwitter There have been lots of discussion about stress in grad school & tenure-track. There should be more off-ramps during graduate school and the tenure track. It should be more

Tuomas Malinen

mtmalinen

A lot of excitement about the #recovery of manufacturing especially in the Eurozone and in #China , but is it real?For three years, we have been trying to get the

Nathan Tankus

NathanTankus

Great piece from @DavidVonDrehle"Forced social distancing should give even the busiest academic economists some time to bone up on MMT. It’s not quite the cartoon money machine it has been

P. Sainath

PSainath_org

1/5. Barbed wire, Barricades and Border Security Force to stop farmers from reaching Delhi? Wow! There’s Cooperative Federalism for you. Or is it cooperative feudalism with the subedars of Haryana

Evelyn Smith

evelyn_a_smith

I’ve been ruminating over the JPE situation since yesterday, and wanted to share my current thoughts in an effort to process them and find a constructive way forward. (thread) As

Annelies Goger

annelies_goger

Thanks, @Brendan_Duke. This topic deserves a full-on thread. There are several common misconceptions when it comes to workforce training and retraining. Breaking down some of them here. #wkdev #unemployment https://twitter.com/Brendan_Duke/

Tom Nichols

RadioFreeTom

For the next three days, you're going to be told that America is still struggling with CARNAGE! - so here's a reminder that this was, and is, bullshit. This is

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

Why do prices of things increase? Why does an item cost twice today what it did 10yrs ago, even though it's still the same item? The answer lies not in

Peter Ganong

p_ganong

Huge puzzle about the role of UI in the economy now 1) $600 UI supplement expired, removing $30 billion/week from the economy2) Spending trackers for proprietary data look *flat*! Answer:

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/OK, I didn't want to have to do this thread, because it's inevitably going to make a lot of people angry. But lots of people are asking, so I guess

Oliver Kim

oliverwkim

THREAD: On the role of bad social science in the Vietnam War—and how not understanding local conditions, and thinking through endogeneity (yes, endogeneity) can lead to policy conclusions with tragic,

American Solidarity Party

AmSolidarity

For a long time American conservatives liked to say that liberals were the party of "moral relativism." The conservatives stood up for the old fashioned moral truths, while liberals believed

EdAsante

EdAsante77

Biden would do it all over again: Lockdowns punish the economy. Months into the Covid-19 pandemic, evidence points to ways to slow the spread of the coronavirus at much lower

Stephen Tapp 🇨🇦 🌎

stephen_tapp

3 top #CdnEcon labour economists (@tammyschirle @kevinmilligan @mikalskuterud) dig into 's Labour Force Survey https://www.cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/schirle-milligan-skuterud-%E2%80%93-digging-one-level-deeper-march%E2%80%99s-workforce-number