#Economists

rathin roy

EmergingRoy

Thanks Roli! For a chance to explain why it’s ideological(Thread).(1)Many well meaning people supportUniversal basic income as it helps the poorest. That’s an ideological choice. They don’t care about the

(((Charles Fishman)))

cfishman

When it comes to the coronavirus pandemic, is the cure worse than the disease?That is, do the stringent public health rules imposed in 42 states—mandatory closing of non-essential businesses, stay-at-home

Kwanda

JoinKwanda

We're building a thread of black initiatives, programs, and clubs started by black people who are giving back. Help us add some![Thread below] Olu soup kitchen @OlusSoupKitchen, created by @Oluwalinda_,

MDE | CEED UNSAM

MDE_CEED_UNSAM

Les compartimos tres lecturas para hoy. Arrancamos con Philip Mirowski, una larga pero muy interesante revisión sobre Neoliberalismo.https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/02/neoliberalism-movement-dare-not-speak-name/ Seguimos con un impacto concre

Andrew Batson

andrewbatson

This piece correctly identifies the major reasons why the state share of China's economy stays high: the political pressure to keep growth high, and the resulting push of resources into

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Sam Charles Norton

Elizaphanian

I wonder if one of the most important things we are being required to learn is that people can be motivated by things other than money... This is not to

MMT for the Union

MmtUnion

The Ways and Means Account is just an infinite overdraft with the Central Bank, and it grows over time to balance the net-savings of the non-government sector just as the

Orla Hegarty

Orla_Hegarty

[Thread] Solving the #housing crisis means facing facts#1 Planning Permission is not a barrier to housing in Dublin, there are over 40,000 ‘ready-to-go’ permissions for houses & apartments in Dublin

Per Bylund

PerBylund

#Economics has lost its way and made the study both impotent and of lacking relevance. It is easy to see how and why if we first recognize that proper economic

Dr Paula Byrne

pbyrne82

1/7 I did a basic search on PubMed for studies that considered cost of lock-down policies per quality-adjusted-life-year (QALY) saved. QALYs r measures that consider both quantity & quality of

Stuart Theobald

rationalhill

There has been much debate about whether the battle against the Covid-19 crisis or the economy should come first. This debate is misguided and unhelpful. A thread... Fundamentally, our objectives

David DeRemer

DRDeRemer

Reading @D_A_Irwin on fisheries, manufacturing and subsidies in the 1790s, it's striking how relevant debates are to the present, the largest difference being that the word "bounty" could still be

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

I said last June: The 3d quarter GDP numbers would explode and lots of non-economists would misunderstand what it means. Right on time, my prediction comes true.Let me explain why

TheUndefinedMystic

pennycheck

How bad will the stock market get post election? A THREAD $SPY $VIXThe following is a list of things which are extremely likely to happen 1. Joe Biden wins the

NBC News

NBCNews

For richer and poorer, Uncle Sam's coronavirus response widened the gulf.Experts say there are strong reasons to believe less-well-to-do business owners have suffered disproportionately and gotten less help from the

Rohan Venkat

RohanV

Giant gaps in the Covid-19 relief package:"More than 100 million people are excluded from the public distribution system because the central government insists on using the 2011 census population figures