#Economists

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

The analogy of a country’s budget being like a household's budget is often used as an argument for austerity measures (suspiciously, only used against social programs, not programs that benefit

Sridhar Vembu

svembu

1/ I hugely respect East Asia's achievement in lifting people from poverty. There is a lot to learn from the experience of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and later China. In

Nimi Hoffmann

NimiHoffmann

CODESRIA has just published its Bulletin on RCTs.This is the beginning of pan-African and South-South conversations on the role of RCTs in the South. Whether we critique or defend, this

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/It's almost midnight here, and I'm finally getting around to:Coronavirus Tweets from the Experts, 5/12/2020https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/lists/coronavirus 2/Big outbreak in Latin Americahttps://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1260429828349

Rooshan Aziz

rooshanaziz

World has moved on but #PakEcon discourse is stuck in a rut. Would be easy to ignore such superficial narratives but they’ve historically fed into policy/political discourse (PTI did this

Sri Thiruvadanthai

teasri

A thread about David Engerman's book, The Price of Aid. Lots of archival details and interesting history on how the Cold War competition played out in aid politics in India

Ajit Pai

AjitPaiFCC

Wow! @NobelPrize in Economics goes to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, whose “best-known contribution is the auction they designed the first time the US authorities [the @FCC!] sold radio frequencies

Stacy Dean

deancbpp

Speaker Pelosi’s new stimulus proposal wisely includes a 15% boost of SNAP’s maximum benefit. This will both help families afford food & infuse needed spending into the economy; this thread

Melissa Sweet

MelissaSweetDr

Please join me as I read @LancetCountdown report just released on health & climate change, tweeting out snippets as I go. It is 43 pages and has been making headlines:

Jon Boeckenstedt

JonBoeckenstedt

Thread: Over eight years ago, I laughed because students who made this video thought admissions officers actually talked like this. This was created by the Princeton Tiger.https://youtu.be/3tiUELkyQFg This morning, I

Ali Wyne

Ali_Wyne

THREAD: The United States and China are both incurring significant reputational damage, albeit for different reasons.Middle powers such as Taiwan and South Korea, by contrast, continue to be exemplars for

Sanjay G Reddy

sanjaygreddy

Angus Deaton's article, just published in @TheIndiaForum on 'randomization in the tropics': https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/randomization-tropics-revisited @ramreddy As frequently, I disagree with Deaton on certain points, for instan

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

8. In one sense, progressives need to actually learn a language they have neglected for far too long. That is the language of finance and power. Learning languages takes time,

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

I've been a freelancer - a contractor - for most of my life, but I've also been a salaried employee and an hourly employee and there is a significant difference

Rudy Havenstein, Elysium ESG Diversity Officer

RudyHavenstein

I have two main issues:1. The military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about in 1961, and, related to that,2. The Big Bank crime wave and associated kleptocracy...plus all the politicians, institutions,

Sam Bowman

s8mb

Cutting the aid budget is a bad idea – I say this as a long time sceptic of *development* aid, and admirer of the great PT Bauer, one of the