#Economists

Kiernan Mathews

Kiernan_Mathews

1/ I have some thoughts (and links) on the downstream consequences of #faculty hiring freezes, massive #adjunct / #NTT layoffs, loosened admissions standards + institutionalization of online/hybrid #teaching. Your thoughts?

Paul Kelleher

kelleher_

MEGATHREAD: I tweeted some quick thoughts yesterday about this new paper but I wanted to follow up with a more thoughtful take. Yesterday I griped that the paper’s numbers omitted

William J. Luther

WilliamJLuther

I'm not surprised to see @judyshel come under attack for her defense of the gold standard ahead of her Senate Banking Committee confirmation vote next week. But it is sad

mmatigari

matigary

Thread: Land Reforms 1/ The term BANANA REPUBLIC was popularized locally by @ProfJNMoyo as minister of info from 2000-4. Moyo’s refrain was “Zimbabwe is not a banana republic.”I agree

Tuomas Malinen

mtmalinen

This is something I've planned to do for a long time. There are wide-spread misconceptions on #centralbanks that need to be set straight.So, a (long) thread on why Central bankers

A repository of #MMT resources by @ActivistMMT.

MMTResources

1/ When it comes to issuing currency the Federal Reserve is clearly a creature of Congress. They can inflict a lot of damage bc Congress allows them to do too

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Last week, 1.6 million workers applied for unemployment insurance (UI). Breaking that down: 881,000 applied for regular state UI, and 759,000 applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf There

Joseph Walker

JosephNWalker

Below is a thread on why lockdowns need not be "economic suicide" as Steve Waterson described them in a recent article (https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/national-coronavirus-hysteria-will-lead-to-disproportionate-suffering/news-sto

George Selgin

GeorgeSelgin

Thread: I don't think I've been at all coy when it comes explaining why I doubt that Bitcoin will ever become a generally-accepted and widely-used medium for everyday payments, that

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update April 11: Today I spent on food— not (just) eating it. But what’s going on in the food banks, with food producers & for hungry people.Got the inside

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

WILL THIS EVER CHANGE. Last week, 1.4 million workers applied for unemployment insurance (UI). Breaking that down: 822,000 applied for regular state UI (not seasonally adjusted), and 608,000 applied for

HHT Zimbo

zimboguide

#BlackFriday in Zimbabwe 1997: a #thread1/The late 1990s were a difficult time in the country due to a changing economy, increasing civil unrest and the beginnings of an unsustainably inflationary

Saoirse, Archduchess of You Called Me A Horse

ALWETP

A new thread of exclusionists being awful and bigoted because the last one is at like 40 tweets.So uh, yeah, starting out strong with the classic homophobic "what's next, pedophiles?!"

Dr Arvind Virmani

dravirmani

Yesterday, after a long discussion with a close family member who is a US MD phd, we agreed that with world's best #contagion models (% masks & social interaction) available

Dexter Roberts

dtiffroberts

1) "An antiquated land-ownership system, also from the era of Mao Zedong ... suppresses social mobility for China’s rural poor. In contrast to urban real estate, which can be rented

City Atlas

cityatlas

1 - yes crazy but true2 - interestingly, economists of Nordhaus's type have no concept of dread (I asked the late Frank Ackerman)3 - which, I think, means they have