#Economists

The "American Dream"--Communism-- was created by Fordist capitalists with the goal of "total employment" & the maximization of wages in order to avoid social revolution. The Soviet Union, rather, was
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Read our 1-page position paper for ending #lockdown in SA. Repeal unworkable distinction between essential/non-essential. Limit high-risk activity, not specific biz/sectors. Allow firms to innovate for safe operation. End special
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This morning, my home province of Quebec was reported to have 5th highest rate of COVID deaths per 1M. As I keep explaining, dealing with pandemics needs a) institutional flexibility;
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In August, as a fire burned 12 miles from my home in Marin County, I watched smoke billow from the hills and air tankers crisscross the skies. I had an
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In the wake of the Bank of England’s latest forecasts the media is full of talk of an economic “boom”.One headline this morning even calls it a *supersonic* boom.What to
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Interest rate policy is:- a blunt tool with lots of negative side effects- by definition not targeted to the actual source of inflation- potentially counterproductive due to contradictory effects of
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1/N We should applaud @LHSummers recognition of the work neoMarxian economists Bowles, Gintis, Weisskopf, and Schor did on worker power...4 decades ago. Am willing to bet they are not cited
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Getting off to a great start with a blatant lie here Lol Snoopy does what This really is just like Wall-E isn't it It's funny that his TotC paper is
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Braindumping a thread on $SPX, $VIX and vol dynamics prompted by a really nice tweet by @JimmyJude13. Robinhoodies, we're going swimming in deep water so please wear armbands and let
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July 31, 2017, #WEF: "As developments in artificial intelligence and robotics advance, there is going to be a severe and swift disruption of many working classes."https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/we-should-let-the-robots-take-our-jobs
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Thread about activism and academic research (economics & political science in particular)There's a manipulation/intervention theory of causality, that causality is about what we could feasibly change through some hypothetical action
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This week, I asked folks to name an idea in urbanism that they wish got more attention. One caught my eye more than any other: induced demand. It’s got perhaps
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This herd immunity quote highlighted by @danwootton is hilariously flawed. Why? Because each year there are >700K live births in the UK. Herd immunity proponents forget a simple fact -
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1/ Long overdue but some thoughts on @zachdcarter's excellent book The Price of Peace. I hope I can add to this thread over the weekend. From the jump, the role
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Working on some technocratic fixes for renters in Toronto, but here's something a bit more radical I said out loud in the community, shortly before it was impossible to do
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Make sure to understand that the disastrous leadership failure on COVID has actually consisted of a series of equally disastrous terrible decisions from Trump and the GOP-to ignore disease warnings,
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