#Economists

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Olwethu_Mkhize1

The continued rise and effectiveness of Information technology makes centralized economic planning highly possible A Thread. After the fall of the Soviet Union most economists concluded that central economic planning

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Last week, 2.2 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the thirteenth week in a row that unemployment claims have been more than twice the *worst* week of the

JuanCamiloCardenas

jccardenas1965

A recent controversy on the RCT in Nairobi with a water company threatening nonpaying users to cut their water as one experimental treatment has raised once again ethical concerns on

peeleraja

peeleraja

I want a world where "where did you do engineering?" is as normal a question as "who is your Art of Living sponsor?" There is no Engineering Nobel prize because

Marc Lee

MarcLeeCCPA

The climate conversation in Canada needs to move beyond noble aspirations accompanied by awkward contradictions around the expansion of fossil fuel production. Tweet storm to follow based on this new

Dorothy A Brown

DorothyABrown

Finishing up page proofs for The Whiteness of Wealth that shows how tax policies designed with white Americans in mind disadvantage black Americans at every turn AND HOW WE CAN

XR Cambridge

xr_cambridge

In 1950 a period in planetary history unlike any other began.You know about CO2 increase. But CO2 was just one indicator among many others that things were - are -

yatakalam

yatakalam

Pearls of wisdom from the @chicagotribune 2001:And man "becomes a woman" and suddenly- cries more- believes men are sexually intriguing- drives more slowly- is less confident with auto mechanics- has

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

This story by @yabutaleb7 and @jdawsey1 should get the Pultizer Prize. It charts out a terrifying future for us with @SWAtlasHoover at the side of @realDonaldTrump ready to just let

Taylor Pearson

TaylorPearsonMe

For my next trick, I will now attempt to summarize @ole_b_peters very insightful paper in @nature : The Ergodicity Problem in EconomicsAt the risk of being hyperbolic, I think it

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

A abt the question we're going to have to confront at some point but no one wants to talk about: how on earth are we going to pay for

Casey McQ

casey_mcquillan

Do tweets like this mean that people respond to a viral disease along political lines? Here’s some evidence for why the answer might yes… (1/10)https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1232058127740174339 Ex: Days before Hurricane Irma

Philipp Heimberger

heimbergecon

Dutch prime minister Rutte and other "frugals" continue to use distorted images of Italy and Southern Europe to water down the EU recovery fund. Here are seven ("surprising") facts about

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Are we quarantining millions of people unnecessarily? Article by @apoorva_nyc on pitfalls of #COVID19 PCR for quarantine / public heatlth action / policy. *Disclaimer* the article is based on

Justin Sandefur

JustinSandefur

Everything you know about cross-country convergence is (now) wrong.https://www.cgdev.org/blog/everything-you-know-about-cross-country-convergence-now-wrongIn which @dev_a_patel, @arvindsubraman, and I take issue with a new JEL review that s

Barry Ritholtz

ritholtz

“The letter 'K' is a reminder of a truth about the economy: over the past four decades, the U.S. has become a nation that has seen the benefits of economic