#Economists

Shane

shaneferro

the classic journalistic tactic of concluding what workers are saying by asking management https://nypost.com/2021/05/07/nyc-eateries-cant-compete-for-staff-with-unemployment-benefits/ The Post randomly throws in that economists say people

Lisa D. Cook

drlisadcook

I am a macroeconomist who uses lynching in economic analysis & was a student of George Akerlof, Barry Eichengreen, David Romer & Paul Romer.When I taught at Harvard, I taught

Justin Wolfers

JustinWolfers

I'm seeing little eddies of discontent about economics v. epidemiology.I've been party to *tons* of economics discussions over recent weeks, and this really isn't a thing. Economists have been reading

Ben Spielberg

BenSpielberg

Suppose we were to accept that upper-level economics courses aren’t nearly as bad as intro courses & that the good ones can help you unlearn the nonsense you learn in

Anna Gifty is finally on Tik Tok

itsafronomics

The silence of economists at a time like this is deafening. Some of you have really gone about your business like the world is not burning when your training and

Brian Romanchuk

RomanchukBrian

Been seeing fragments of a discussion among neoclassical economists who are confused about MMT. I’m somehow too busy to peruse the thread (no idea how that happened), to see the

Dr. Trevon D Logan

TrevonDLogan

Message to 99.7% of Econ professors: This coming academic year, do NOT attempt to teach about race, racism, or racial inequality. Just don’t. Even if you’ve published papers on it.

Arien Malec

amalec

1/Yes! Surveillance is in the policy discussion. Now we need to do it. & it's not as bad as the article suggests -- much of the infrastructure is there. It

Shruti Rajagopalan

srajagopalan

On Ambedkar Jayanti, I want to share my favorite Ambedkar quote which I think is crucial to understand as an economist and student of the market process. "The Caste System

Diane Lim

economistmom

I would love economists to start recognizing there's such a thing as a "supply side multiplier" effect when it comes to subsidizing or investing in the #caregiving economy. (Thread follows...

Annelien De Dijn

de_dijn

In their recent book The Narrow Corridor, Acemoglu and Robinson illustrate once more why economists should stay away from history. It's like they're trying to channel the Comte de Boulainvilliers.

Prince Kropotkin

Prince_Kropotkn

Sorry but seeing suicidally insane ideas from economists like "If we had ten degrees of global warming we'd just move indoors like the Saudis, no problem" makes me want to

Alexandre Truc

alxndr_trc

7/ Beyond the question of more or less interdisciplinarity, the disciplines of interest for economists also transformed drastically. Looking at the seven most cited disciplines in economics, we observe a

Guanyi Yang

GuanyiYang

I literally just finished Economics of Discrimination for my labor class, and I changed how I teach this (and the entire labor econ) dramatically this year, after so disturbed by

Daniel Reeders

engagedpractx

I've just been thinking about the ethical and relational frameworks that have been showing up in economists' writing about the cost/benefit and timing of restrictions. It seems like there are

Ben Spielberg

BenSpielberg

I very much appreciate this admission from the economics profession’s defenders that introductory economics instruction - which is all the vast majority of people encounter - consists largely of lying