#Economy

Kanno Sugako (1881–1911), was a Japanese radical anarcho-feminist.She was the first woman to be executed in modern Japan for political reasons, having led a plot to overthrow the government, which
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I'm dealing w/ the scum of the earth employers who r refusing to pay their workers the wage subsidy while demanding the government lift the lockdown. It's been difficult seeing
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Universities in #Pakistan are so disconnected from the industry. It’s criminal how they continue to produce social science/polsci graduates in bulk that have no job prospects. Result? Students end up
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Fascinating discussion led by @revikin of the ICS at @earthinstitute, with @KateRaworth & #HermanDaly, sharp as ever.Lots of content but some things to consider a bit: - productive vs extractive
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Republicans are really good at mobilizing white identity and reactionary politics to cut taxes for the rich. The Left needs to translate this tremendous mobilization around racial justice into material,
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That plea to teachers from the PM was straight up political theatre. Teachers aren't the ones who make the call if schools stay open, so that plea was for the
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The big unresolved question of development from the 20th century and beyond; can engineering eat economics?Can the distribution of resources, economic prioritization, be made into an engineering problem? Economics currently
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If Modi hadn't come to power in 2014 till date & our country had faced the Covid19 crisis today; what wud have happened?• There'd be no Jan Dhan Yojana. Thus,
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This isn't the first time an anti-science leader rallied his supporter to attack and discredit a doctor in the face of an epidemic in order to preserve the economy.In 1900,
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Thrilled to get to say this in @nytopinion, with @JosephEStiglitz as a partner: states and cities need federal fiscal relief, but they also need to step up and *raise taxes.*
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Cathie @CathieDWood, Not a chance was US stock market cap/GDP greater in the late 1800s and early 1900s than it is today. It was a FRACTION of today's level. It
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I can’t be the only one that doesn’t want the world to go back to how it was before covid-19. I want it to be different. We NEED it to
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Yes, unsure there will be such a swift recovery in trade / economieshttps://twitter.com/baharmouti/status/1247888716594417666 Specifically on the UK economy in the coming years, this thread is worth reading.https://twitter.com/TimPitt11/status/124785
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South Africa is broken. Broken beyond repair.by Elzaan-Mari Beylefeld – 14 July 2020It is Tuesday morning and the icy greyness of the Cape Town winter has somehow nested in my
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Something great we are seeing: Lots of people are buying from their local businesses. That helps them survive and that keeps people employed. The majority of all jobs are with
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THREAD: #SuicidePrevention I get annoyed when ppl think the solution to India's suicide crisis is having more suicide prevention helplines. Don't get me wrong, they are absolutely necessary, but not
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