#Economics

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

There’s a fundamental aporia in discussion of cancel culture: every group—including those represented in the Harper’s letter—has things you can’t say. No meta-principle can allow for direct, rational discussion of

Mises Institute

mises

In celebration of his birthday, a look at the life of Ludwig von Mises.Mises was born on Sept 29, 1881 in the city of Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine)Here's

Umberto Kerouac

UmbertoKerouac

1/ Want to know when that devastating second wave of Covid-19 in the UK will come? I am going to go out on a limb and say October this year.

Ben Golub

ben_golub

Our perceptions of some of the things we experience are deeply inaccurate. Case 1: The vast majority of restaurants get few visits and go out of business quickly. This seems

Melamoid

SoberedByBricks

Marx has a brief section near the end of Capital vol 1 chapter 15 where he discusses the reemergence of "unproductive" working classes like domestic servants, which had been integral

Larry Schweikart

LarrySchweikart

1) A former student of mine, Adam Josefczyk went on to help found Forge, a leadership net work for da Yuts. Forge has been very successful, though lower key, than

Phil Magness

PhilWMagness

As the person who broke the story about the NYT's textual deletions from the 1619 Project, I'll offer a few thoughts on this response from the paper in the thread

David Evans

DaveEvansPhD

**HOW MUCH DOES THAT INTERVENTION COST?**I just moderated a @CEGA_UC panel with editors from four economics or development journals about how to make cost data more prevalent in studies and

Mohammed Nizami

mnizami_uk

[Thread]Whenever learning *anything*, u have to begin w/ preliminary default positions for that subject. That's what u learn first. U don't get into debates about its constituent parts, even if

Gniewomir Flis

gnievchenko

Everything you wanted to know about the hydrogen economy, but were too busy to research.A summary based of my work @LiebreichAssoc Part 1: Path to emission-free Hydrogen at 1$/kg In

Andrew Zeitlin

AndrewZeitlin

Should developing countries use training or cash grants to combat youth unemployment?Craig McIntosh & I have a new paper out today helping answer that question, working in Rwanda w/ @poverty_action,

Fabiana Cecin 🏴 🌹

fabianacecin

What is the basis of "Crypto UBI"? Besides a teaching tool, a simulation, how can it actually help implement Basic Income? I learned this from Marcus Brancaglione, of the @ReCivitas

James Mitchell Ⓥ

MesMitch

The US economy is becoming increasingly harmed by ever less competition, with fewer and fewer companies dominating sector after sector – from airlines to mobile phones. Market power is the

George Reisman

GGReisman

Re: The 1619 Project Ancient Rome, Greece, Babylon, Egypt, India, China, and Africa too, all had slavery. None of them created the Industrial Revolution. Great Britain and the United States

Gwen Hofmeyr

Tinyvalue

1/ I don't like talking about investing anymore, because there's nothing to discuss beyond my investments, which are Tiny's.Buy businesses, or employ a systematic deep value approach. Paying attention to

Pseudoerasmus

pseudoerasmus

Short Thread — on Developmental Pessimism. Essentially a reaction to an article in Dissent called ‘End of Development’. More precisely it’s about the end of development as industrialisation.https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/th