#Economist

Kia Richards

KiaRichards_

My Post-COVID-19 society predictions. (Thread) COVID-19 will force people to evaluate how they spend their time in the future. I foresee meaningful work-life balance strategies implemented, especially at tech companies.

Armand David

division6

Years ago, possibly on the recommendation of @sbisson and @marypcbuk , I read Kim Stanley Robinson's MARS trilogy. I loved it, and tried to persuade @damiankahya that anarcho-communism was the

Sizwesihle Mavuso

stitchious

Globalisation, Economic Development And Inequality: An Alternative Perspective by Erik S Reinert (2004). "The fundamental cause of economic welfare is human productive creativity and morality", (Reinert, 2004). "National comp

Aron Lund

aronlund

Everything you need to know about the sanctions on Syria: who do they target, how do they work, what is the impact on civilians? Big backgrounder for @NewHumanitarian: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2019/04/25/briefing-just-how

Izak Novák

izak_novak

China's SASAC, which oversees the centrally owned state enterprises of China, is the largest economic entity in the world with assets of $26 trillion and revenues of $3.6 trillion (2017).

Joe Mayes

Joe_Mayes

Brexit stockpiling is on hold because of financial damage from the pandemic 1/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-27/firms-aren-t-preparing-for-brexit-due-to-virus-institute-says?sref=yMmXm5Iy With cash reserves depleted, firms

Orla Hegarty

Orla_Hegarty

[Thread] Solving the #housing crisis means facing facts#1 Planning Permission is not a barrier to housing in Dublin, there are over 40,000 ‘ready-to-go’ permissions for houses & apartments in Dublin

Syedih

SyedIHusain

#Jinnah: The Hindus thought he was a Muslim communalist, the Muslims took him to be a pro-Hindu, the Prince deemed him to be too DEMOCRATIC. The British considered him a

Adam Ozimek

ModeledBehavior

I want to add a few more points here around this question: why the heck am I talking about this? There are two pieces of modern economic history that have

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DrutangAtHome

Alright, I've still got a little bit of research to do before I start, but here's the tentative outline:- Gates family wealth- Bill Sr/Margaret Sanger- The Negro Project- Eugenisim movement

Phoenix Center

lawandeconomics

Thread:1/ Our Chief Economist Dr. George Ford apparently caused some consternation at yesterday's @EnergyCommerce/@HouseCommerce hearing when he testified that the primary reason people don't adopt #broadband is lack of relevance--N

Leila de Lima

SenLeiladeLima

Four years into Mr. Duterte’s presidency, we have come to understand the pattern of his failures. He promises the heavens to seduce the gullible. He fails. He makes excuses and

AParajit Bharat 😌

AparBharat

A man who witnessed the economic failures of Indira & Rajiv Gandhi, he always has been Congress's hope to revive the economy. He himself was the PM for 10 long

Suparna Chaudhry

SuparnaChaudhry

Low #COVIDー19 numbers (especially deaths) in densely populated South Asia a little puzzling. Factors that may explain it: lower fatality attributed due to young population + poor collection of data

Michael Beaton

mhbx

Grappling with the times, and an economic system that creates 100's of billions of dollars for a handful of individuals of unearned income in a time of national crisis when

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

I don’t have the bandwidth right now to go into a full analysis of @ProfEmilyOster’s work but I feel compelled to make a few points: https://twitter.com/ProfEmilyOster/status/1314572214621143040 First, @ProfEmilyOster, an economist,