#Economists

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

Coming up on #BBCNewsSix & #BBCNewsTen what keeping wheels of industry turning during a global pandemic looks like - a socially distanced production line at UK bike manufacturer Brompton..As BBC

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guacamolebio

Epidemiologists! This oil price thing is our opportunity to be armchair economists! Let’s start assembling hot takes! just fyi i muted this thing hours ago lmao

Beth Popp Berman

epopppp

I suggest that thinking about antitrust in terms of “expert capture” is useful for understanding this stability in antitrust. James Kwak and others have pointed out that regulatory domains can

xhanti

Xhanti0330

Economic Development (Transformation) is based on the concept of Strategic Malinvestment. Some of you may know it as “Overlending”. This is more than just about funding key industries but about

Neale Mahoney

nealemahoney

A few weeks ago, I voiced my concern that debates over Covid-19 policy would fall victim to the false trade-off between the economy and the virus.I now realize there is

Costa Samaras

CostaSamaras

And it's not just economists who don't do a lot of work on climate change as a field. It's everyone. Law, political science, engineering, social science, everyone. In just the

Philippe Lemoine

phl43

In general, I think that @OurWorldInData is great, but this analysis is extremely misleading and doesn't show what its author and @MaxCRoser claim it does. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1305799189004247040 What the author did

Elaine

evilorio2

Some friends recently gave me the opportunity to put this into words: I started studying econ bc I bought into the discipline's self-aggrandizement, i.e. maybe it is better than the

Sam Byers

byers90

I think we can all agree that it’s a precarious moment for the arts. I don’t think, though, that that precarity is solely financial, I think it’s existential too, and

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

THREADWow!@realDonaldTrump just WRECKED the press.Announce a campaign press conference, and then do THIS:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYHFncl2Lss&t=4m45s The smell of the approaching storm is in the air.https://getpocket.com/explore/

Christopher Mims

mims

This is the most important thing I’ve ever published, and I’ve been a technology journalist for more than a decade.(thread )https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-is-dividing-the-american-worker-11598068859 People with a high school degr

David “HINDSIGHT IS 2021” Walsh

DavidAstinWalsh

5% of the entire population of the United States -- not just labor force, the ENTIRE population -- has filed for unemployment in the past 3 weeks. It's pretty, uh,

Ben Spielberg

BenSpielberg

Economics instruction in the United States consists largely of empirically unsupported political theory masquerading as mathematical fact. I very much appreciate this admission from the economics profession’s defenders that introductory

CBC News Alerts

CBCAlerts

Canada lost 1,011,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate shot up to 7.8% in March from 5.6% in February, StatsCan says. The number dwarfs the previous record of 129,000,

Diane Marie

DianeMariePosts

Here we go again. Jagmeet Singh is demanding something that is impossible. There is no master list of Canadians for the purpose of sending $2,000 to “everyone”. How many times

Carolyn Sissoko

csissoko

So I learned this week that some people actually believe that mainstream macroeconomists believe that "banks create money" in a way that is *substantively the same* as the claim that