#Economists

Lord Matzo the Unleavened

MatzoBalling

OK fam, once more unto the breach I go... The host is introducing the event with all the excitement of a late night train driver announcing that we'll be delayed

Cory Morningstar

elleprovocateur

#COVID19.Important thread.Q: What does #Imperial College, the World Economic Forum (#WEF), #Salesforce, #Sinovation Ventures (Chinese technology venture capital), #ABB (#automation technology), global artificial intelligence (#AI), all have

Jennifer Doleac

jenniferdoleac

Domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking are very difficult for economists to study because of data quality. Survey evidence suggests that such offenses are typically not reported. This

Nick von Westenholz

nvonwestenholz

As the Agriculture Bill comes back (again!) to Parliament this week, some reflections on the issue of trade policy and food standards: **featuring** some myth-busting, some corrections of misconceptions, and

🚶🏻Curtis S. Chin

CurtisSChin

The #IMF says the "Great Lockdown" recession will likely be the worst since the Great Depression. Global economy projected to shrink by 3% in 2020. By contrast, in January, the

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

We have to start in the Confederacy. We aren't taught much about it, and that's because so much of it is steeped in American tradition and so much has lived

#SHIFT

TheGentYYC

Anything short of a full tilt #GreenNewDeal with a WW2 levelled footing to confront the #ClimateCrisis & we inevitably, utterly, shamefully fail our children & grandchildren. The task is mighty

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

This thread is more personal than most of the things I share here, but I’m at my limit with Jason Hickel.I want to explain why I dislike him so much

Sam Bliss

ii_sambliss

Mike Shellenberger's new book Apocalypse Never is an Amazon bestseller. @g_kallis and I have spent 5 years reviewing the science around the ecomodernist ideas presented and found that they are

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

As white-identity evangelicals circulate rumors that these are the End Times and Donald Trump is a holy messiah, people are asking for another go-round on exactly how we got to

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

25/ The answer is *yes*.One of Trump's top men on trade negotiations in China, Michael Pillsbury, said he received *dirt on Biden* from *the Chinese government* the *very same week*

Jimmy Falun Gong

JimmyFalunGong

recently, I read this book, Treasure Islands, by Nicholas Shaxson, about tax havens, and it really broadened my understanding of the financial system in ways that are hard to articulate.

B.W.O.

BWorldOmnimedia

Hey all! Let me go on your religious ecumenical Rabbinical Priest Methodd pronounced Method-id for the form of Methodism I practice which says that Jesus Christ was the Smartest and

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Timotero2

Fascist Italy – Thread 1/3Heroic Capitalism (1922-1932)“The factory is the typical expression of industrial capitalism; it is the period of large profits, and therefore the law of free competition and

Dr Dominic Pimenta

DrDomPimenta

This is deeply pseudoscientific and dangerous rubbish. I wouldn't normally amplify, but in this case given the public health emergency I've made an exception. The full version is here: https://youtu.be/DUDg5ossirU Otherwise

David Perell

david_perell

MEGA THREAD TIMEHere are 50 ideas that shape my worldview.These are my guiding principles and the light of my intellectual life. All of them will help you think better, and