#Economists

OKH

ooikokhin

MUDA, the new youth-led political party in Malaysia, calls for a ceasefire but ended up provoking a war with PH. Why? They claim to be above partisanship but came across

PolicyNub

lloydatiku

#CoronaBailout is here. What is in it for the frontline health workers?https://twitter.com/lloydatiku/status/1252217206823411712 In recent days, some prominent economists and institutions have pondered the idea that the current economic shock brought

Stephanie Kelton

StephanieKelton

THREAD Throughout the primary debates, Democrats missed a huge opportunity to talk with people about what it means to "pay for" your spending proposals. Now that Congress is preparing to

Joseph Allen

j_g_allen

1/n #CovidEndGameThere is the plan to save lives and the economy. It’s not my plan. It’s not @juliettekayyem. A consensus has formed across experts of various disciplines; what we call

Rob Carver

investingidiocy

My take on the COVID-CODE review scandal (here https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/ and reported https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/10/chilling-truth-decision-impose-lockdown-based-crude-mathematical/ amongst other place

Conrad Miller

conradcmiller

Excited to share research with Ben Feigenberg (@UICLAS) on racial disparities in motor vehicle searches conducted by highway patrol. TLDR: eliminating these disparities would *increase* contraband yield.NBER: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27

Anthony Lee Zhang

AnthonyLeeZhang

Some notes on practical auctions vs auction theoryThe year's 1959. The FCC allocates radio spectrum basically by soliciting applications and evaluating. Very discretionary process, also very time and resource intensive

Patrick T. Brown

PatrickTBrown31

Q: Why is it so difficult to motivate global society to implement greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies if these policies confer not only environmental but also economic benefit? One reason

Tierney Sneed

Tierney_Megan

I've previously written about how the Affordable Care Act — which Trump and several red states are asking SCOTUS to fully dismantle — is linked to the coronavirus response.https://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/trump-supreme-court-obamacare-cov

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

The year is 2087. We have slowed and then gradually reversed climate change. The two main political parties in the US are the center-right Democrats and the left-wing Green-Progressives, but

Ryan Hill

RyanReedHill

Hey academics on Twitter:Have you ever been scooped?Do you worry about getting scooped?My job market paper estimates the consequences of getting scooped in science using cool data from structural biology.Let’s

Nacho Oliveras

NachoOliveras

Here I am at #RWRI13.Day 1, arrived just in time, so I couldn't grab a front seat.@NonMeek will be happy to learn that his latest Offshore mini-book is in the

Mark Kirstein

nonergodicMark

If the book @EconTalker is writing on decision-making and data contains any decision theories imho it must include #Ergodicity Economics. Looking forward.http://www.econtalk.org/john-kay-and-mervyn-king-on-radical-uncertainty/ This might in

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

Thread: In a factory somewhere on the outskirts of Birmingham sits a machine which tells you rather a lot about the UK economy & where it's heading. It cuts &

Andrew Fentem

andrewfentem

I've just read @MattwRidley's interesting new book. Here are my thoughts....#innovation #engineering #patents #intellectualproperty @harperbooks @HarperCollins1/18 The key message of 'How Innovation Works' is this:Innovation

Kürşad Decentralised

althorsword

-Great Thread Alert-For a while I had the idea of listing the most influential texts for my econ and liberalism perspective. But the point I’d make is that even when