#Economists

Onur Özgöde

ummodern

Why do we have an econ indicator such as GDP? Most assume GNP, GDP's predecessor, was invented to measure economic growth.My new paper, Institutionalism in Action, shows it was constructed

Brian Romanchuk

RomanchukBrian

⁦@StevenHailAus⁩ already discussed this.*Most* of the article is lightweight “debt is bad, boo” that falls under the Fiscal Folk Theorem. As such, added value is nil.However, there was one bit

scott cunningham

causalinf

You know what is kind of funny but swept under the rug a lot? Bob LaLonde is his 1986 AER influential evaluation of the NSW program which was an RCT

Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍

XRebellionUK

For anyone losing their over socialism and XR, stating that we aren’t a socialist movement is not the same as saying we reject socialism.From the offset, like it or

Joel Budd

JoelBudd1

This is interesting. If I may--I think that Owen is both right and wrong. Right about aid, the importance of testing, and DFID. Wrong about how journalists think. I don't

The Passenger

gordonschuecker

Paper Notes | The Appallingly Bad Neoclassical Economics of Climate Changeby @ProfSteveKeen The subprime moment for Neoclassical economics and how citing/quoting Nordhaus became a liability.https://www.patreon.com/posts/appallingly-bad-3804

SHoET

Societies_HET

@Societies_HET has prepared a reading list of recent books in the History of Economics that might help you go through these difficult times.#QuarentineLife #Books #ReadingList Our first book on the

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

Some thoughts on "interdisciplinary" uses of history.1. History is not just a source of raw data. Even simple historical sources require interpretation. They often need quite careful contextualization. Ducking this

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

After @HawleyMO published the below @nytimes op-ed, he & @sdonnan engaged in a #Twitterdebate over the @WTO.The debate is really over what International Organizations can & can't do in world

Kira Goldner

kiragoldner

What a wonderful way to start the week! Congrats to Paul Milgrom and Bob Wilson!!!Total giants who have impacted auction theory into practice, and pretty much every economist and algorithmic

Daniele Tavani

danieletavani

Joan Robinson was “probably the best economist alive” in Paul Samuelson’s own words.@zachdcarter rightfully celebrated her work on monopolistic competition (without which there wouldn’t be new trade theory nor endogenous

Philipp Heimberger

heimbergecon

Politicians, economists and the media have been using distorted images of Italy and the Italian economy. How do we reduce these distortions? Niki Kowall and I make an attempt by

Olivier Simard-Casanova 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷

simardcasanova

This I felt more and more uneasy in the recent weeks and months about #EconTwitter, and I think this is exactly whyhttps://twitter.com/_alice_evans/status/1199699728805646337 Also:https://twitter.com/gmcugat/status/1199763066969346048?s=21 https://tw

Saifedean.com

saifedean

There are many theoretical reasons bitcoins shouldn't work, but until it stops working, these theories aren't worth much.There are many theoretical reasons @planB's s2f model shouldn't work, but until it

Lawrence Hamtil

lhamtil

Bored in quarantine, so poking around some older articles to remember what 2009-2010 felt like. Here's one from March 9th, 2010:"Worries Rebound on Bull's Birthday"https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000142405274870470630457510749263256

Ⓥ𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚌

vegix

There's been a lot of talk about inflation lately, and it has an agenda.The goal is to undermine Biden's infrastructure plan and future stimulus.While some prices have risen, most of