#Economists

Abi Stephenson

AbiLStephenson

I’ve been thinking about how interesting it is that I never - in 10 years of horizon-scanning & programming the world’s foremost experts, campaigners, thought leaders, academics and futurists to

Gregory Crawford

GregorySCrawfor

A (long) thread complementing those by @Caffar3Cristina and @johnnyryan encouraging competition economists to make theories of harm based on (lack of) privacy and data protection core features of antitrust investigations

Doctora Malka Older

m_older

Rich countries failed to deal with the pandemic. They failed to prepare for or deal with ice storms & hurricanes. They can't even protect their citizens from poverty. We should

Latika M Bourke

latikambourke

THREAD Former Australian Prime Minister @HonTonyAbbott speaking to the @Policy_Exchange about the coronavirus pandemic. Tony Abbott says Jacinda Ardern locked down New Zealand and delayed the election after just 4

Rudy Havenstein, Elysium ESG Diversity Officer

RudyHavenstein

If economists designed bathrooms... Parking Gate Systems NOTE: A reminder that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's planned testimony to the Joint Economic Committee on Wednesday has been cancelled. "The Fed’s

Seth Miller

WandrMe

The @IATA #COVID19 briefing for 14 April 2020 is now kicking off. Three weeks ago IATA had estimates of $252bn in revenue dip. Turns out that the worldwide flights operating

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

In normal times. In normal times, @CDCgov, @NIH & @US_FDA would have been empowered to lead our response to #SARSCOV2. 1/ In normal times. In normal times, experts on every

Loïc Berger

Loic__Berger

Happy to share that our new paper with M. Marinacci on #uncertainty and #climatechange has just been published @SpringerNaturehttps://rdcu.be/b7snR Uncertainty is of particular importance when considering decisions with global, long-l

Per Bylund

PerBylund

There is a lot of confusion about the concept of good in #economics. While thinking of goods as products (or services) is an easy shorthand, it doesn't quite capture economic

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

Economics is the study of production, consumption & allocation of goods & services within a society.These can be accomplished in inherently oppressive, alienating & environmentally destructive ways (capitalism).Or they can

Ted Nordhaus

TedNordhaus

1. So I am finding it gobstopping that we still don't have a serious proposal on the table from either the Administration or Congress to rapidly and massively scale up

Bachman

ElonBachman

1\ History rhymes.COVID-19 is new, but a similar panic swept the world in the 1970sIt featured the same experts, the same dazzling models, and led to monumental human suffering and

Michael Lipsitz

MichaelLipsitz

This article is a "practitioner's guide to noncompete use", but it makes a great point about something that's bothered me for a while about how economists view employment contracts, versus

Rod Graham

roderickgraham

This tweet is for @davemcomie and others who have what I would call a "healthy" appreciation for Thomas Sowell, and use him to refute claims of racism. For fun, I

Alex Trembath

atrembath

I find myself in the strange position of wanting to defend climate economists. There's a lot to like in this piece but I think Noah misleads about the past and

Syed Jaymal Zahiid

SyedJymalZahiid

Pro-rakyat economists have called for urgent scrutiny of the proposed UEM Sunrise-Eco World merger. The main concern is, according to them, is the deal a way to bail out a