#Economics

Monna Wa Chizama

mithisa_motho

What we all need to learn. When somebody invites to war, you should always ask them what the winner gets and what your share of that is. People were systematically

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

It's now clear as day. @realDonaldTrump isn't interested in scaling-up testing, contact tracing, isolation, PPE, training thousands to do tests, help manage the next phase, nor foster social distancing in

GeePaw Hill

GeePawHill

The economic aspects of microtest TDD are inextricably tied to the operational aspects of it. If we concentrate only on the artifacts involved, we will lose the picture and misunderstand

Anne Pate

trekkie10

TEACHER FAILS ENTIRE CLASS: An economics

Andrés Bernal ☀️🇨🇴🇺🇸

andresintheory

Critiques of MMT coming out from economists based on 1) dismissals of chartalist theories of money 2) claims MMT doesn’t address power, are evidence to me of the methodological and

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today's @bopinion post is a meditation on @Peter_Turchin's theory of "elite overproduction", as applied to today's unrest.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-06/the-rich-and-privileged-can-revolt-too 2

Justin Schlosberg

jrschlosberg

9 times out of 10 when people in Britain talk about protecting press freedom what they really mean is protecting press power... There are two great myths that sustain this

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VeganStella

Saddened to see @MindCharityteam up with @milkyourmoment in a cynical attempt to promote dairy, through supporting others during the lockdown. I've always supported this charity, but their connection with cruel

Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D.

estebanjq3

This seems like as good a time as any to reflect on THAT TIME my economics professor tried to use a cautionary tale about a graduate student committing suicide for

Women in Statistics and Data Science

WomenInStat

I work primarily with nested data. One example is in experiments, with students nested in schools. Another is meta-analysis, with effect sizes nested in studies. In this thread, I’ll focus

Megan McArdle

asymmetricinfo

@tylercowen: "By the way, the mounds of evidence (testing data, not all public) are piling up against the “so many of us already have been exposed” theories." I agree (1/2)https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/04/monday-ass

It takes two to contango

2Contango

THREAD re: $NAT (1/N)It’s a rare thing for Nordic American Tankers and irrepressible founder Herbjorn Hansson to schedule an earnings call and take questions from equity analysts, as most other

Bachman

ElonBachman

1\ If you want to know who a society's thugs are, look what causes corporations willingly pay homage to.https://twitter.com/ZacBissonnette/status/1271266102358814726 2\ In the US, annual reports now have long vacuous sections

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

I'll go on a Twitter break after the jobs #s tomorrow. Will get everything out of my system before then.Which brings me to inventories.They are very low, getting lower, and

Ellie Mae O'Hagan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

elliemaeohagan

Why you can't win over the public by "saying what they think:" A Thread.1. Most people don't know enough about politics and economics to give politicians a useful idea of

Emilia Tjernström

etjernst

A thread on #Covid19 & the @QandA debate.Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a useful tool for thinking about trade-offs b/w policy options.But assumptions matter hugely when we try to monetize non-monetary