#Economic

Friedrich Hayek's graduate student Arthur Lewis was the first black man to win a Nobel Prize in an area other than the Peace Prize. "I got into the history of
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Very quickly as an FYI, the British empire butchered the Sikh community and then afterward manipulated their kings & leaders to undermine the rule of Muslims which led to mass
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Very excited with this new paper - with @ricardo_hausman and @pietrobelliC - forthcoming at the Journal of Business Research, on the contribution of place-specific factors – and in particular knowhow
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the awful food parcel pictures all over here atm reveal so much about how this govt view poverty. 1) the story of ‘them’ and ‘us’ where ‘us’ is the hardworking
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1985 elections=28 fresh MPs. Of interest is the categorization of currents; back then terms like "nationalist" & "fundamentalist" were used. The gov's move to gain support from within the NA
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This is a really good, smart piece connecting home affordability with congregational struggles in the LDS church. I have some additional thoughts.https://twitter.com/nataliebrownist/status/1361680399764774917 As @WmHenryMorris pointed out l
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THREAD "Heartbreaking" is the only word I can find to describe today's awful #LFS jobs numbers: both the scale of job loss, and their painfully unfair distribution. 213K jobs
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Relief is on the way: the General Assembly has given final and near unanimous approval to our top legislative priority, the RELIEF Act of 2021. This is wonderful news for
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A few thoughts on the recovery plan that President-elect Biden is announcing tonight.THREAD: It is *very* large. Together with the December legislation it would be around $2.8T, which is about
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My first “political” memory is the Iranian hostages. Then that Reagan guy was elected & they came home. I remember the media & establishment called him crazy too. Then I
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People who have been spreading false information during this pandemic are now claiming that they just want evidence-based policy. But they all appear to base their opinion on a false
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Anyone want to share their hot take that will get them cancelled on left Twitter that they know deep in their heart to be correct? (1) I have some doozies.
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Just finished the bio of Deng Xiaoping by the recently departed Ezra Vogel. Really fascinating book for anyone interested in the foundation of Modern China. I'd argue Deng was the
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We've officially entered ACT II for the year 2020. The end of 2019 is now further away than the start of 2021.Here are some highlights, month per month, of the
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Changing jobs has really confirmed my biases against employer-sponsored benefits (especially, but not just, health) - and the tax system that encourages all of them. I've spent abt 2 mos
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I genuinely think leftists should read hayek. He was mostly a freak with conservative fever swamp views about politics but his ideas about tacit/dispersed knowledge are v important imo. He
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