#Consumption

markhmcgivern

markhmcgivern

Scotland's Drug Deaths Task Force branded a failure after failing to turn tidehttps://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scotlands-drug-deaths-task-force-22463942?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

It's now half a century since 1970, and I'm starting to wonder if we should bring back its concept of gracious modern living... Yoy see we've grown so used to

Angry GenX Lady Rage Screaming Again 🌞♈ 🌙 ♊⬆♍🌎

AngryGenXLady

Ever since the establishment revealed its desire to even further turn this country into a completely fascist police state by running the Crime Bill Kop ticket, I have been doing

Phil Rogers

PhilRogers81

This is a quote from Emiliano Zapata, leader of the Mexican revolution of 1910-20. Peasant communities stood up to having land & water resources monopolised by the small-landowning class, leading

Ihar Filipau

IFilipau

#Belarus. Thread/translation. @charter_97 republished an FB post, from people, who live near militia bases: what gossip they hear, and what they see.https://charter97.org/ru/news/2020/10/4/395635/0/n 1/n. Situ is at boiling point among mili

Andrew Livingstone

realandrewliv

1/12In response to a few requests, this is another thread on norms and behaviour change, with added entry points to the social psych literatureKey message: descriptive & injunctive norms are

Dr Laura Kehoe

LauraJKehoe

Why do sustainability policies advocate for economic growth?! It's time to take the GDP blinkers off. *Conservation is incompatible with economic growth* Check out our new open-access paper w @g_kallis

Austin Smith

austinsmithsolo

What’s amazing to me is that people can’t draw a clear line between the lack of accountability and the continual murder of unarmed black people by police. If there are

Amy Dickman

AmyDickman4

I don't think laypeople like @HortaRob understand quite how insulting and demoralising these kinds of Tweets are. Let me use a thread to give some perspective on how this appears

Deva Bhau Stan Account

accountanthunbc

How Politics Triumphs over Good EconomicsYesterday, Modi govt banned Export onions. It's a very bad decision. This move is totally against Onion Farmers and India's Export Market. Firstly, it will

Ghoncheh 🌹

babygoriIla

Iran’s Regime and Executions: A Thread #اعدام_نکنید #StopExecutionsInIran 1. Murder: Shayan Saeedpour, a minor who had 17 years old when he committed the crime, was executed on April 2020. Mohammad-Ali

Dan Murtaugh

danmurtaugh

Working from home, avoiding airplanes, online shopping, using more plastic -- many of the behaviors we’re learning in lockdown will stay with us beyond it. That will reshape the future

Gabe Hicks

GabeJamesGames

DnD creature that is a shark-like humanoid and constantly wandering/moving in the same way that sharks always do. Think wraith meets shark. Usually in packs and consistently hungry because they

Arpit Gupta

arpitrage

Have been waiting to write about this cool, finally posted, paper by @AlexChinco, @SamHartzmark, and @abbysussman. This is a really neat paper which calls into questions the foundations of Asset

David Mejia-Canales

dmejiacanales

Meet Prudencia Ayala, an Indigenous Salvadoran woman who was the first (and only) woman to ever run for the presidency of El Salvador in 1930 despite women not being able

General Theorist

GeneralTheorist

Brad Setser reminds us of the fact that EM fiscal deficits are largely being financed domestically. Which is a reminder that the macroeconomics of COVID-19 is happening in a similar